Are teachers' education, major, and credentials related to classroom quality and children's academic gains in pre-kindergarten?
An investigation using data from the NCEDL Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten, 2001-2003, to examine if early educators' education, early childhood major, and credentials are related to classroom quality and preschool children's academic achievements
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Best practices for beginners: Developmental appropriateness in kindergarten
A study of developmentally appropriate practices used in kindergarten programs and a study of factors contributing to the use of developmentally appropriate practices in kindergarten programs in the North Carolina school system
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Child care in the pioneer partnerships: 1994 and 1996
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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Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence
An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence
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Children's classroom engagement and school readiness gains in prekindergarten
A study of the relationship between child engagement in public prekindergarten classrooms and school readiness gains, based on data from 2,751 children from the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the State-Wide Early Education Programs Study (SWEEP)
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Comparing universal and targeted prekindergarten programs
A comparison of classroom characteristics and preschooler achievement outcomes in universal and targeted pre-k programs based on a sample of over 400 children in over 800 classrooms
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Creating risk and promise: Children's and teachers' co-constructions in the cultural world of kindergarten
A survey of 21 former Head Start children as they made their transition to public school in fourteen kindergarten classrooms
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Diversity and directions in state pre-kindergarten programs
A survey of the diversity and standards of state-sponsored prekindergarten programs
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Early day care, infant-mother attachment, and maternal responsiveness in the infants' first year
A longitudinal study on the impact of non maternal child care on mother-child relationships and infants’ insecure maternal attachments
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Early intervention and long-term predictors of school status
A longitudinal study of the effects of early intervention education for at-risk children beginning in infancy on long term schooling, using data from the Carolina Abecedarian Project
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Early intervention and mediating processes in cognitive performance of children of low-income African American families
A longitudinal study of the importance of the relationship among better cognitive performance, early intervention child care and responsive stimulating family care on low income African American children
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Educare implementation study findings--August 2012
Findings from an implementation study of Educare, a full-day, full-year high-quality early care and education program for at risk children from birth to age 5, that examine children's school readiness, vocabulary, and socioemotional outcomes and classroom quality, based on data collected at 12 programs from the fall 2007 through spring 2011 school years
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The effects of Smart Start on the quality of preschool child care
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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Families & the North Carolina Smart Start Initiative
An examination of the characteristics, child care arrangements, family activities, and need and use of community services for Smart Start participating families, based on interviews with 356 randomly selected families
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Family and classroom correlates of Head Start children's developmental outcomes
A study of the influence of the quality of Head Start programs on achievement and developmental outcomes
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Features of pre-kindergarten programs, classrooms, and teachers: Do they predict observed classroom quality and child-teacher interaction?
An observational study of the extent to which features of programs, classrooms, and teachers contribute to quality and teacher–child interactions in a sample of 238 classrooms in 6 state-funded pre-kindergarten programs
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Georgia study of early care and education: Child care center findings
An investigation of process quality and program characteristics of preschool programs, based on data from a random sample of 112 child care centers in Georgia in 2008-2009
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Georgia study of early care and education: Findings from Georgia’s pre-k program
An investigation of process quality and program characteristics prekindergarten programs, based on data from a random sample of 61 programs based in public schools in Georgia in 2008-2009
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Getting a "Head Start" in collaborative partnerships
An examination of the collaboration between Head Start and North Carolina’s Smart Start Initiative, focusing on factors that enhance or diminish collaborative relationships, issues that arise during collaboration’s implementation, and the structures that need to be built to increase the success and length of collaborations, based on data collected over a 2-year period through interviews with parents, Smart Start leaders and planners, and local and state Head Start agency representatives
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Language skills of children with different preschool experiences
A study of the effects of a language-enriched child care program on the language skills of children three months to five years of age from socioeconomically disadvantaged families
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Parent involvement in Head Start programs: The role of parent, teacher and classroom characteristics
An examination of the relationship between teacher and/or classroom characteristics and the frequency of parental involvement in Head Start classrooms
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Pre-kindergarten in eleven states: NCEDL's Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and study of State-Wide Early Education Programs (SWEEP): Preliminary descriptive report
An outline of key descriptive findings about the characteristics of prekindergarten children and their families, teachers and their classes, classroom quality, and academic assessments, from the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the Study of State-Wide Early Education Programs (SWEEP)
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Prevalence of aggressive behaviors among preschoolers in Head Start and community child care programs
A comparison of the prevalence of aggressive behaviors of children in Head Start programs and of children in community child care programs, based on the behavior ratings of a sample of 571 4-year old children rated by 63 teachers
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Project CARE: A comparison of two early intervention strategies
A study on the effects of early intervention education on the intellectual development of high-risk infants
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Promising results: Educare implementation study data--June 2012
Findings from an implementation study of Educare, a full-day, full-year high-quality early care and education program for at risk children from birth to age 5, that examine children's school readiness, vocabulary, and socioemotional outcomes and classroom quality, based on data collected at 12 programs during the 2010-2011 school year
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