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Academic performance of subsequent schools and impacts of early interventions: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Head Start settings A comparison of the impact of exposure to the Chicago School Readiness intervention during the Head Start year on children's language, literacy, and math and behavioral outcomes between kindergarteners in both high and low performing schools, based on secondary analysis of data from 361 children who were participants in the Chicago School Readiness Program |
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The acquisition of literacy skills in 4 and 5 year olds An examination of literacy skills acquisition in 16 4 and 5 year old preschoolers in a School Readiness program in a medium sized school district in southwestern Minnesota |
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Adequacy of responses given by low income and middle income kindergarten children in structured adult-child conversations A study of structured adult-child conversations, the ability of children to give adequate responses, and the contributing factors of the subjects’ socioeconomic status and child care arrangements; the sample population included 15 black low-income children from a preschool intervention program, 15 black low-income children from a nonintervention program, and 15 middle-income children |
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Alignment: A missing link in early childhood transitions? An exploration of the role of complementary curricula in facilitating children’s transition between prekindergarten and kindergarten, based on an analysis of curricula from prekindergarten and kindergarten programs in four communities |
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Analysis of two early childhood education settings: Classroom variables and peer verbal interaction An observational study of peer verbal interactions, types of activities, social configurations, and teacher behaviors at both a Montessori and a traditional preschool in an urban area |
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Analyzing social experiments as implemented: A reexamination of the evidence from the High Scope Perry Preschool Program A reanalysis of data from the Perry Preschool Project, a longitudinal experimental study of the impact of a preschool education and home visitation intervention on over 715 measured outcome variables of disadvantaged children in preschool, based on data from participants from age 3 through age 40 |
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Anthropomorphically speaking: On communication between teachers and children in early childhood biology education An analysis of a type of figurative speech used in the context of science activities in a preschool, based on data collected from 3 teachers and 15 children |
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Approaching kindergarten: A look at preschoolers in the United States A profile of children in the United States aged three- to five-years old who have not yet started kindergarten, based on a sample of 2,000 children who had participated in the National Household Education Survey |
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An appropriate curriculum for 4-5-year-old children in Northern Ireland: Comparing play-based and formal approaches A comparison of the quality of learning experiences for 4-5-year-old children in formal versus play-based models of education in Northern Ireland |
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Are we leaving them behind?: The case for helping childcare providers and parents address behavioral problems in very young children A study of the status of behavioral health services available to children from birth to age five in early care and education settings in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania |
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Arts enrichment and school readiness for children at risk A study of the growth of children's school readiness skills among low income and at risk children of different levels of development at a preschool using the Kaleidoscope arts enrichment curriculum, and a comparison of the vocabulary scores of children in this program with those of children in a nearby traditional preschool |
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Assurance of outcome evaluation: Curriculum fidelity An inquiry into the level of curriculum fidelity in early childhood education and care programs, based on observations and assessments of a sample of 43 teachers and 6 program coordinators from a Head Start program in a Missouri city |
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Attitudes of Dutch and German preschool teachers towards professional childcare: A cultural comparison An examination of teacher reactions to sets of two 5 minute video clips one child initiated free-play situation with no teacher present and one structured situation with the teacher present and with teacher initiated activities that represent typical child care situations from different cultures, from written impressions of 39 preschool teachers from Germany and 33 from The Netherlands |
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Barriers to and facilitators of inclusion for children with disabilities in early childhood education An investigation of inclusive practice in early childhood environments and the exclusion or inclusion of children on the basis of disability based on three case studies of early childhood centers in New Zealand |
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Blending effective behavior management and literacy strategies for preschoolers exhibiting negative behavior A rationale for embedding literacy instruction within behavior management strategies to assist preschool age students with negative behaviors |
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Building number sense with Number Worlds: A mathematics program for young children A description of Number Worlds, a mathematics program for preschool children designed to help teach conceptual understanding of mathematics at developmentally appropriate levels |
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The Carolina approach to responsive education: A model for daycare A summary of the features and philosophy of the Carolina Approach to Responsive Education (CARE), a comprehensive program for preschool children and their families |
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Child outcome standards in pre-k programs: What are standards; what is needed to make them work? An overview of child outcome standards in Prekindergarten programs, how they relate to the standards movement in K-12 education, and what conditions are necessary to ensure their effectiveness |
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Children, play, and computers in pre-school education A proposal for the development of a curriculum for communication and information technology instruction for preschool students, based on observations and interviews with practitioners and students from seven preschool settings |
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Children's gender role stereotyping: The effect on Asian and non-Asian Australian pre-school children of an anti-bias curriculum A study of the impact of Derman-Sparks' Anti-Bias Curriculum on gender role stereotyping among Asian and non-Asian Australian children |
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Children's preferences for group musical activities in child care centres: A cross-cultural study A cross-cultural research study of children's preferences for group musical activities in child care centres, with 228 young children aged 4–5 years in 7 child care centers in Hong Kong and in the Adelaide City of South Australia |
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Closing the achievement gap through expanded access to quality early education in grades PK-3 An overview of the role of preschool and prekindergarten programs in closing the achievement gap in the school years, with federal policy recommendations for program role enhancement |
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Cognitive and family-support mediators of preschool intervention: A confirmatory analysis A study of the mediators of the effects of preschool intervention on 360 low-income children’s school achievement in the sixth grade |
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Comment on Marcon (ECRP, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2002): ''Moving up the grades: Relationship between preschool model and later school success An article commenting on the analyses and interpretations of a study that suggested an academically oriented preschool model had negative effects in later school years |
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Comparison of everyday and every-fourth-day probe sessions with the simultaneous prompting procedure A comparison of the influence of a simultaneous prompting intervention on children's acquisition of targeted behaviors when received every day or every four days, based on a observations of 4 preschool children who attended a university-affiliated child care center |
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