America After 3PM
A 2009 update of and comparison to a 2004 study of the after school child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households
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The effect of Tennessee's prekindergarten programs on young children's school readiness skills: A regression discontinuity design
A comparison of school readiness skills in samples of 179 students entering prekindergarten and 67 prekindergarten completers entering kindergarten and a second comparison upon kindergarten entry of the school readiness skills of the same 67 prekindergarten completers and 86 who had not attended prekindergarten
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The effects of four-year-old preschool attendance on reading and math achievement of third and fourth grade students
A study of the association between attendance in Zion Christian Academy's preschool program and students’ reading and math achievement and attitude towards school for 30 third grade and 26 fourth grade student's report cards and from the 2007-2008 Stanford 9 Achievement tests
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The effects of pre-k experience on Kindergarten Readiness Indicator scores: 4-year trends
A study of the relationship of Memphis, Tennessee, kindergarteners' language and mathematics skills to their child care and early education arrangements as 4-year-olds, based on assessment scores and parent survey data from 2006 through 2009 for more than 20,000 children
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An evidence based approach to estimating the national and state-by-state costs of an integrated prek-3rd education program
A study of the national and state costs of providing universal, high-quality prekindergarten through third grade education, derived from an evidence-based model for identifying the components and estimating the costs of high-quality prekindergarten through third grade education in a prototypical elementary school
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Home environment and family resources to support literacy interaction: Examples from families of children with disabilities
An inquiry into the resources available in the home environments of families of children with disabilities to promote children’s literacy skills, based on observations and assessments of the homes and reading sessions of 6 families of children with disabilities in eastern and central Tennessee
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Needs assessment report Tennessee Head Start State Collaboration Office
An assessment of Tennessee Head Start program needs and strengths in the cooperation, coordination, and collaboration of services, curricula, and assessments in eight designated priority areas, based on survey responses from 29 Head Start grantees
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State-based home visiting: Strengthening programs through state leadership
A study of the characteristics of state-based home visiting programs, including their structure, financing, and design, and of state efforts to strengthen programs, based on a survey of state program staff and administrators and on a roundtable discussion
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The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
An annual review of access to, quality in, and resources devoted to state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia during the 2008-2009 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs
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A study of the impact of Imagination Library participation on kindergarten reading achievement
A study of the relationships between instructional reading levels and participation in a program that provides one free children’s book in the mail every month, by subsamples of children who qualify for free and reduced price school lunch, by gender, by the reported frequency of books read to children prior to kindergarten, as well as length of participation in the program, based on data from a stratified random sample 90 kindergartners from 3 schools in Sullivan County, Tennessee
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A study of prekindergarten literacy experiences in a northeast Tennessee school system
An examination of the scores of prekindergarten students when presented with 3 different methods of literacy instruction
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