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Allegiances or attachments: Relationships among infants and their daycare teachers
Farran, Dale, 1984
In R. Ainslie (Ed.), The child and the daycare setting: Qualitative variations and development (pp. 133-158). New York: Praeger Publishers

A study of infants’ social interactions and relationships with alternative caregivers in child care

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Before Head Start: Income and ethnicity, family characteristics, child care experiences, and child development [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 127-139). New York: Guilford Press

A description of demographic, family context, income, and developmental characteristics of Head Start children and their families at 3 years of age, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care

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Building resilience: A study of the academic achievement, school attendance, and self-concept of students in grades 3-5 who participated in a 21st Century Community Learning Center's after-school program
Chappel, Linda J., 2004
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An investigation of the effects of different rates of participation in an after school program on children's perceived competence and social acceptance, reading and mathematics achievements, and school attendance

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The Carolina Abecedarian Project: An educational experiment concerning human malleability
Ramey, Craig T., 1987
In J.J. Gallagher (Ed.), The malleability of children (pp. 127-139). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.

A review of the experimental early education program, Carolina Abecedarian Project, which focuses on the intellectual development of at-risk preschool children

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Child care in the first year of life [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 39-49). New York: Guilford Press

A description of child care during the first 12 months of life, including initiation and amount of infant child care, child care history patterns during the first year, and the types, multiplicity, and stability of care used by parents of infants over the course of the first year, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care

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Child care in the pioneer partnerships: 1994 and 1996
Maxwell, Kelly, 1997
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.

An evaluation of North Carolina?s Smart Start pioneer partnerships in 1994 and 1996, building on the earlier Effects of Smart Start on the Quality of Preschool Child Care evaluation, focusing on services provided, teacher education and training, and overall quality

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Child-care selection from birth to age three: The influence of family economy, demographics, and parenting attitudes
Wolf, Anne, 2004
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Two studies using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development examined family variations in timing and type of children's initial child care arrangements and then variations in amount of hours spent in child care per week from birth to age three

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Children with special needs in North Carolina child care programs: Survey report: October 1, 2003?September 30, 2004
Wesley, Patricia W., 2005
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, Partnerships for Inclusion. (No longer accessible as of October 11, 2012).

A study of the enrollment of children with special needs in licensed child care programs in North Carolina as of October 31, 2003, with statewide and county analyses by child's age and provider type, based on a survey of child care providers

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Cognitive and school outcomes for high-risk African-American students at middle adolescence: Positive effects of early intervention
Campbell, Frances A., 1995
American Educational Research Journal, 32(4), 743-772

A study of the long-term positive cognitive and social outcomes of low-income, primarily African American, adolescents in an early childhood educational intervention program

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Compensatory education for disadvantaged children
Ramey, Craig T., 1982
In J. Belsky (Ed.), In the beginning: Readings in infancy (pp. 259-269). New York: Columbia University Press

A review of the early intervention program, the Carolina Abecedarian Project, regarding the social and intellectual development of low-income, predominately African American students

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Compensatory education or maximum feasible participation: Voices of Head Start mothers/teachers from the Blue Ridge Mountain Foothills
Hamlin, Amy K., 2004
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

A study using a narrative research approach to examine the impact of Head Start on eight women who are both mothers of Head Start children as well as teachers in the program

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Early child care and children's peer interaction at 24 and 36 months [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 281-296). New York: Guilford Press

An abridged reprint of a study of how time spent in child care, child care quality, and availability of peers relate to children's peer social competence at 23 and 36 months, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Early child care and self-control, compliance, and problem behavior at twenty-four and thirty-six months
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1998
Child Development, 69(4), 1145-1170

A study into factors of family and child care experiences as predictors of self-control, compliance and problem behavior in children

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Early effects of the Healthy Steps for Young Children program
Minkovitz, Cynthia Schaffer, 2001
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 155(4), 470-479

An evaluation of the implementation and effects of The Healthy Steps for Young Children Program for children aged 2 to 4, focusing on services received, satisfaction with services, and parent practices

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Effects of a preschool music and movement curriculum on children’s language skills
Yazejian, Noreen, October 2009
NHSA Dialog, 12(4), 327-341

An examination of the influence of children’s receipt of a music curriculum on their language skills, based on a sample of 207 children and 27 teachers from 3 Head Start programs in a suburban area of North Carolina, a rural area of Kentucky, and an urban area of New York

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The effects of Smart Start on the quality of preschool child care
Bryant, Donna M., 1997
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.

A study of the effects of a broad-based community initiative, Smart Start, to improve the quality of preschool child care between 1994 and 1996

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Evaluation report: North Carolina Support Our Students: 2001-2002
Johnson, Janet L., 2002
Raleigh, NC: EDSTAR.

The evaluation of a state program designed to encourage quality after school programs for middle school students

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Evaluation report: North Carolina Support Our Students: 2003-2004
EDSTAR, 2004
Raleigh, NC: EDSTAR.

The evaluation of one year of a North Carolina state program designed to encourage quality after school programs for middle school students

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Evaluation report: North Carolina Support Our Students: 2004-2005
EDSTAR, 2005
Raleigh, NC: EDSTAR.

An evaluation of the 2004-2005 year of a North Carolina state program designed to encourage quality after school programs for middle school students

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Even Start: Facilitating transitions to kindergarten
United States. Department of Education. Planning and Evaluation Service, 1997
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Planning and Evaluation Service.

A study describing the transition-to-school strategies implemented by the Even Start Family Literacy Program, identifying the most successful of these strategies, and providing data and recommendations to improve the design of transition strategies, based on data collected on Even Start projects operating in 1993-1994 and from site visits to five projects showing promising transition strategies

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The expanding role of the courts in educational policy: The preschool remedy and an adequate education
Superfine, Benjamin Michael, July 2009
Teachers College Record, 111(7), 1796-1833

A description of the educational research on the effectiveness of preschool used in 2 cases of school finance reform litigation, an analysis of the opportunities and pitfalls of the preschool remedy for inequity, and an examination of the implications of other similar remedies from a judicial consideration of preschool programs in New Jersey and North Carolina

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Investments in building citywide out-of-school-time systems: A six-city study
Hayes, Cheryl D.,
Philadelphia: Public/Private Ventures.

An exploration of approaches to the structure of expenditures for a system of delivery of out of school time services, based on case studies of programs in Boston, Massachusetts, Charlotte, North Carolina, Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado, New York City, and Seattle, Washington

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Making the most of after-school time: Ten case studies of school-based after-school programs
National Association of Elementary School Principals, 2005
Alexandria, VA: National Association of Elementary School Principals.

A report profiling high quality school-based after-school programs from ten different states

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More at Four Pre-Kindergarten Program progress report to the North Carolina General Assembly
North Carolina. More at Four Pre-Kindergarten Program, 2004
Raleigh: North Carolina More at Four Pre-Kindergarten Program.

A summary of the 2003/2004 implementation of North Carolina's More at Four Pre-Kindergarten Program for at risk four-year-olds, reviewing number of children served, staff and teacher professional development, and program funding

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More at Four Pre-Kindergarten Program progress report to the North Carolina General Assembly
North Carolina. Office of School Readiness, 01 February, 2007
Raleigh, NC: North Carolina, Office of School Readiness.

A summary of the 2006/2007 implementation of North Carolina's More at Four Pre-Kindergarten Program for at risk four-year-olds

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