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4th survey of parents of three and four year old children and their use of early years services: (Summer 1999 to spring 2000) Findings from a survey of parents of three- and four-year-old children on their use of early childhood education and care services, based on a survey sample of 5955 parents in England |
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The ABC Daycare disaster of Hermosillo, Mexico On June 5, 2009, the ABC Daycare facility in Hermosillo, Mexico, caught on fire with an estimated 142 children and 6 adult caregivers inside. The purpose of this article is to describe the factors contributing to the disaster including care of the survivors, tertiary burn center triage, patient transport, and treatment for this international mass casualty event. Finally, the results of an investigation performed by the Mexican Government are reviewed. A summary of the Mexican Government's investigation of the circumstances of fire and an examination of prevention lapses in other Mexican daycare centers was obtained from their public Web site. The demographic and clinical characteristics of the children transported to the burn center were obtained from the patients' medical records and transport data sheets. The ABC Daycare had many fire safety breaches that contributed to the severity of the tragedy. Twenty-nine children died at the scene and more than 35 children were hospitalized throughout Mexico. A total of 12 children were transported to two Shriners Hospitals, 9 to Sacramento, and 3 to Cincinnati. The mean age of patients sent to the Shriners Hospitals was 2.9 +/- 0.16 years (2-4 years), with 5 being male and 7 female. The mean duration between injury and arrival was 9.2 +/- 2.1 days, the burn size was 43.0 +/- 6.8% TBSA (6.5-80%), and there were 3.75 operations per patient. Four had fourth-degree burns requiring finger amputations (2), flaps to cover bone (1), or a through-knee amputation (1). Ten patients were admitted to the intensive care unit, and nine patients (seven with inhalation injury) required mechanical ventilation for a mean of 23.6 +/- 10.3 days. All the surviving children were discharged after a mean length of stay of 45.9 +/- 8.7 days. In the first year postinjury, seven children were readmitted a total of 11 times for reconstructive surgery, wound care, or rehabilitation. Ultimately, a total of 49 children died. A review of other daycare centers in Mexico revealed similar safety lapses that could lead to future major disasters. This burn disaster in Hermosillo was potentially preventable with adherence to standard prevention principals. The young age of the victims and the need for an international medical response posed special problems. Prevention efforts need to be improved to prevent future disasters in Mexico. (author abstract) |
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ABC Learning Centres: A case study of Australia's largest child care corporation A study of child care quality in child care centers operated by ABC Learning Centres Limited, the largest child care corporation in Australia, based on responses from ABC Learning Centres staff from a national survey of child care center staff and on detailed follow-up telephone interviews with staff |
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Aboriginal young children's language and literacy development: Progress, promising practices, and needs A compendium of information on the speech and language development of aboriginal children under six years old living in Canada, and a proposal for a national strategy to support the language and literacy development of these children |
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Absence from childcare for respiratory illness A population-based study examining Australian children's absences from two types of child care (center based and family child care homes) due to respiratory illness and an investigation into factors related to the absences |
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Academisation of early childhood education A content analysis of official documents produced in connection with the appointments of professors to the Chairs of Early Childhood Education departments at Finnish universities, to determine how the appointments of particular applicants might have influenced the development of the field |
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Accelerating the early numeracy development of kindergartners with limited working memory skills through remedial education A comparison of the impact of a remedial numeracy education program on the early numeracy development of two groups of kindergarteners with either limited or typical working memory skills, based on data from 933 children in the Netherlands followed over a period of 1.5 years |
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Accelerating language development through picture book reading: A systematic extension to Mexican day care A study evaluating children's language abilities after the completion of a six to seven week dialogic reading program |
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Accessing kindergarten in Queensland A study of parents' beliefs about child development and early education services, barriers to early education access, and factors to facilitate access in Queensland, Australia, based on interviews with 30 mothers |
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Access to childcare services: The role of demand and supply-side policies A study of the relationships between the probability of low income parental use of child care and both individual and contextual variables, different child care tax deduction policies, and the provision of subsidized child care slots, based on nationally representative data from Belgium from the years 1994 through 2000 |
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Access to early childhood education in Australia An examination of the concept and measurement of access to early childhood education in Australia, and a study of variation in access to early childhood education by child characteristics, based on consultations with key stakeholders, a literature review, and secondary analyses of four national data sets |
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Access to preprimary education and progression in primary school: Evidence from rural Guatemala Evidence on the impacts of a large-scale expansion in public preprimary education is limited and mostly circumscribed to high and middle-income countries. This paper estimates the effects of such an expansion on progression in primary school in rural communities of Guatemala. Combining administrative and population census data in a difference-in-difference framework, the paper examines a large-scale construction program that increased the number of preprimaries from around 5,300 to 11,500 between 1998 and 2005. The results indicate that the program increased by 2.1 percentage points the fraction of students that progress adequately and attend sixth grade by age 12. These positive effects are heavily concentrated among girls. (author abstract) |
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Access to preschool education in the year before full-time school An examination of variations in child care arrangements in Australia by child sociodemographic characteristics, based on data for 5,872 4- and 5-year-old children from two cohorts of the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children |
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Achievement of children in the early years foundation stage profile Findings from an annual assessment of students achievement at the end of their participation in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), based on data for all children who attended the program from 2007 through 2009 |
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Acoustic analysis of lexical tone in Mandarin infant-directed speech A comparison between the acoustics and inflection of language of Mandarin-Chinese mothers when speaking to their 10-12 month-old infants and when speaking to adults, based on vocal recordings of 16 mothers |
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Active engagement, emotional impact and changes in practice arising from a residential field trip An examination of the learning experiences of early years practitioners undertaking a residential field trip to Sweden as part of their Early Childhood Studies degree, based on data from 50 undergraduate students from the University of Gloucestershire, England |
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Addendum: The costs of childcare after housing costs in London An analysis of the role of child care expenses in the disposable income of families in London, United Kingdom, based on a model of child care and housing expenses |
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Adjustment difficulties in preschool education: Greek educators' aspects An investigation into views of early childhood educators on children’s adjustment to preschool, based on a survey of 100 teachers in Thessaloniki, Greece |
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Adjustment to the first year in school: A Singapore perspective An examination of adjustment to school by 90 first graders from different ethnic, language, and socioeconomic backgrounds entering a school in western Singapore |
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Adolescent emotional and behavioural outcomes of nonparental preschool childcare An examination of the relationship between nonparental early child care and adolescent mental health outcomes, based on a secondary analysis of data from 197 participants in the Croydon Assessment of Learning Study in the United Kingdom |
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Adult attunement and child availability: Interaction of mother and caregiver with three-year-old Kibbutz children An investigation of adult attentiveness and intrusiveness in dyadic relations between children and their mothers and caregivers, in a sample of 33 three-year-old Kibbutz children in Israel |
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Adult response to children's exploratory behaviours: An exploratory study An examination of the potential responses to children’s exploratory behavior and the assumptions and rationale behind those responses, based on the responses of 19 preschool teachers and 14 parents to vignettes and interview questions |
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Adults' and children's language in different situational contexts in Italian nursery and infant schools An analysis of children’s language development, and educators’ and teachers’ child-directed speech in both Italian nursery schools for children 6 through 36 months and infant schools for children 38 through 72 months |
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Adults as a context for social learning in kindergarten An exploration of children's expressions of other people's beliefs on a test or in a classroom environment, with a focus on children who fail the test but understand its concepts, based on observations of 6 children and their teachers from 2 classrooms in Norway |
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Affordability, accessibility, and accountability: Perceived impacts of the pre-primary education vouchers in Hong Kong An investigation of the influence of the Pre-primary Education Voucher Scheme (PEVS) on the affordability, access, and accountability of kindergarten programs, based on responses to questionnaires from a random sample of 380 parents, principals, and teachers from 79 public and private kindergartens both eligible and ineligible to receive the PVES funding in Hong Kong |
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