Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children
An identification of two routines profiles--structured-balanced and high free choice, derived from varying proportions of teacher-directed and child-initiated activities during the preschool day, and a study of the relationship between those routine profiles and structural program characteristics, measures of process quality, children's engagement in activities of various academic contents, teachers' instructional strategies, and children's school readiness skills, based on data from 53 public preschool classrooms, 47 private preschool classrooms, and 25 family child care homes that serve low-income children in Los Angeles, California
Reports & Papers
The association between preschool children's social functioning and their emergent academic skills
A study of the relationship between social functioning and emergent academic development that includes an examination of gender, ethnicity, and children's feelings about school as moderators of that relationship, based on data from 467 preschool children from 84 classrooms at 44 different centers, as part of a larger study on preventing academic and externalizing difficulties
Reports & Papers
Child care and the development of behavior problems among economically disadvantaged children in middle childhood
A study of the relationship between low-income children's development of behavior problems during middle childhood and child care quality, extent and type of care, as well as an examination of child characteristics, gender, and race-ethnicity, as moderators of the development of behavior problems, based on data from 349 7- through 11-year-old participants in the Three-City Study
Reports & Papers
Child care and low-income children's development: Direct and moderated effects
A study determining the effect of child care quality on low-income children's cognitive and social development, utilizing data from the Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study
Reports & Papers
The child care challenge: What parents need and what is available in three metropolitan areas
Findings from an assessment of local child care supply and demand in three urban areas served by the Teenage Parent Demonstration program: Camden and Newark, New Jersey, and South Chicago, Illinois, based on surveys of 989 parents, 160 regulated family day care providers, 294 unregulated family day care providers, and 167 child care center providers
Reports & Papers
Child care experiences in low-income communities: Developmental quality and maternal views
A study of child care quality in low-income urban communities, including types of child care used and degree to which settings met children’s and mothers’ needs, based on data from a longitudinal welfare study: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study
Reports & Papers
Child care when parents are employed
A study of the factors that influence employed parents' selection of specific types of child care
Reports & Papers
Children born in 2001: First results from the base year of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Selected findings from the first year of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), including descriptive information about child and family characteristics, children’s skills and first experiences in child care, and children's fathers
Reports & Papers
Custodial grandmothers' physical, mental, and economic well-being: Comparisons of primary caregivers from low-income neighborhoods
A study of the implications of custodial grandparent care by comparing the material hardship, mental health, and physical well-being of custodial grandmothers and biological mothers using data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study
Reports & Papers
Development of a comprehensive community assessment of school readiness
A journal article on the development and implementation of a Vermont statewide assessment of children's readiness for kindergarten and schools' readiness for kindergartners and their families
Reports & Papers
Early academic skills and childhood experiences across the urban-rural continuum
An examination of differences in children's academic skills at kindergarten entry across large urban, small urban, suburban, and rural areas, based on data from approximately 6,050 children and their families from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort
Reports & Papers
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Methodology report for the nine-month data collection (2001-02): Vol. 1. Psychometric characteristics
An overview of assessment methods and purposes for data collection on the developmental status of children in the study
Reports & Papers
Early impacts of the Teenage Parent Demonstration on child care needs and utilization
A study of the early impact of Teenage Parent Demonstration project studies designed increase the employment and economic self-sufficiency of teenage mothers and to increase the level of child support by absent fathers
Reports & Papers
The EC-HOME across five national data sets in the 3rd to 5th year of life
An analysis of the reliability and validity of newly developed subscales of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Early Childhood (EC) HOME using data from five large scale national studies
Reports & Papers
The effect of increases in welfare mothers' education on their young children's academic and behavioral outcomes: Evidence from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies Child Outcomes Study
A study examining the academic and behavioral outcomes of young children from the increase of maternal education precipitated by welfare-to-work programs, using data from the NEWWS-COS
Reports & Papers
Effects of nonmaternal child care on inequality in cognitive skills
An examination of the relationship between non-maternal child care and children’s cognitive skills, emphasizing the type of care and mothers’ educational and income levels, based on an analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Reports & Papers
Eligibility for CCDF-funded child care subsidies under the October 1999 program rules: Results from the TRIM3 Microsimulation Model
A presentation estimating the numbers of families and children who may be eligible for child care subsidies under the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) in effect as of October 1999
Reports & Papers
Family income and early achievement across the urban-rural continuum
A study of the form and magnitude of the relationship between income and early achievement across the urban-rural continuum, based on data on approximately 6,600 children from Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort
Reports & Papers
Federal food policy and childhood obesity: A solution or part of the problem?
An examination of the relationship betweeen changes in federal food program participation and low income young children's body mass index measurements
Reports & Papers
Getting ready: Results of a randomized trial of a relationship-focused intervention on the parent-infant relationship in rural Early Head Start
A randomized study of the effects of the Getting Ready intervention on parenting behaviors, based on data from 234 families enrolled in rural Early Head Start home-based programming designed to support the parent-infant relationship
Reports & Papers
The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) in middle childhood: A study of three large-scale data sets
A description of the development of conceptually sound subscales for the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Middle Childhood (MC) HOME inventory using data from three large scale studies with information available on children aged six to nine
Reports & Papers
Implementation of a relationship-based school readiness intervention: A multidimensional approach to fidelity measurement for early childhood
A fidelity of implementation study of the degree to which early childhood programs in the Getting Ready project deliver collaborative strategies during home visits, implement strategies to initiate parent interest and engagement, and differ on rates of implementation and effectiveness between a treatment and a comparison group and an Early Head Start and a Head Start group as well as a study of the relationship between implementation fidelity and both professional characteristics and time in intervention, based on data collected from 65 early childhood professionals
Reports & Papers
The infant-toddler HOME in the 2nd and 3rd years of life
A description of the development of subscales of the Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Infant and Toddler version using data from three large scale national studies
Reports & Papers
In the running for successful outcomes: Exploring the evidence for thresholds of school readiness
An examination of the relationship of children's school readiness skills to their subsequent developmental trajectories in elementary school, based on data from the longitudinal National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99
Reports & Papers
An integrated curriculum to improve mathematics, language, and literacy for Head Start children
A report on the development and field trial of the Evidence-Based Program for Integrated Curricula (EPIC) for Head Start that focuses on comprehensive mathematics, language, and literacy skills, based on data from EPIC or the Developmental Learning Materials Early Childhood Express curriculums randomly assigned to 70 classrooms with 1,415 children
Reports & Papers
