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Achieving a state of healthy weight: A national assessment of obesity prevention terminology in child care regulations 2010
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care (U.S.), January, 2011
Aurora, CO: National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care.

A study of the extent to which state child care regulations meet standards related to obesity prevention in the areas of infant feeding, nutrition, and physical activity

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Analysis of state K-3 reading standards and assessments: Final report
United States. Department of Education. Policy and Program Studies Service, December 2005
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Policy and Program Studies Service.

An examination of the extent to which state kindergarten through third grade (K-3) reading standards and assessments address five components essential to effective reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension), based on an analysis of a stratified, random sample of states' reading standards and on the content of reading assessments in states with statewide assessments

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Balancing the readiness equation in early childhood education reform
Brown, Christopher P., June 2010
Journal of Early Childhood Research, 8(2), 133-160

A case study of the design and implementation of an assessment tool that defines and aligns teacher academic performance expectations for students with school district standards from field notes, document analysis and interviews with 11 assessment task force members and 15 staff of a prekindergarten program in an urban district in Texas

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Being accountable for one's own governing: A case study of early educators responding to standards-based early childhood education reform
Brown, Christopher P., March 2009
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 10(1), 3-23

A case study of standards-based education reform in a large urban early childhood program in the United States based on pre-kindergarten stakeholders responses to a policies that emphasize a uniform conception of learning and student performance

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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research?
Scott-Little, Catherine, 2006
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(2), 153-173

An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness

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Decodable texts for beginning reading instruction: The year 2000 basals
Hoffman, James V., 2002
(CIERA Report No. 1-016). Ann Arbor, MI: Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement.

A 2000 study of the nature and effect of changes in the texts used for beginning reading instruction in Texas

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The influence of national standards for early childhood programs on selected rural settings of the Education Service Centers in East Texas
Sanders, Mary Elizabeth Silvis, 2000
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of North Texas, Denton

An assessment of early childhood curriculum design and implementation in the Texas Education Service Centers in regions Seven and Eight, based on interviews with 15 preschool administrators

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Inside the content: The breadth and depth of early learning standards
Scott-Little, Catherine, 2003
Greensboro, NC: SERVE.

A study of the content and development of state-level early learning standards for kindergarten through twelfth grade in 2004

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K-2 standards and assessments: A 50-state review
Kauerz, Kristie, June, 2006
Philadelphia: National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force.

A descriptive study of each state's kindergarten, first grade, and second grade content standards and mandatory assessments

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NCSL technical report: State approaches to school readiness assessment
Stedron, Jennifer,
Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures.

An examination of states’ definitions of children’s school readiness and states’ uses of information on school readiness, based on data from 23 states that require universal or near-universal assessment by stature

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Preparing for change: A case study of successful alignment between a pre-k program and k-12 education
Brown, Christopher P., Spring 2009
Childhood Education, 85(3), 173-179

A presentation of findings from a case study of standards-based reform to highlight strategies that early childhood educators should consider in order to align their program's practices and policies with those of partnering K-12 systems of education from data from a larger instrumental case study of 21 prekindergarten statkeholders of the South West school district in Texas

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Searching for a norm in a system of absolutes: A case study of standards-based accountability reform in pre-kindergarten
Brown, Christopher P., January 2011
Early Education and Development, 22(1), 151-177

A case study of the implementation of a teacher- and administrator-designed assessment tool to measure preschool academic achievement, and a study of its alignment with Texas state standards for school-age academic achievement, based on interviews with 22 prekindergarten and elementary school stakeholders across an urban Texas school district

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Unequal opportunities for preschoolers: Differing standards for licensed child care centers and state-funded prekindergarten programs
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, February, 2009
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

A comparison of state licensing regulations for center-based child care and early education programs to state prekindergarten program standards, as well as to Head Start standards and military child care regulations, using a quality standards checklist

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