Caregiver well-being affects academic achievement
A summary of 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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Caregiver well-being affects academic achievement
A summary of 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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Can child care impact risk for depression
A summary of an analysis comparing the incidence of depression at age 21 in participants in the Abecedarian Project, an intensive early childhood program for at risk children, with nonparticipants
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Crossing the language divide
A summary of a case study of an English-speaking prekindergarten teacher, investigating the ways that the teacher develops and uses strategies for communicating with and teaching students learning English as a second language
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Examining social acceptance & rejection
A summary of a mixed-method examination of young children's behavior in inclusive preschool classrooms, specifically focusing on shared characteristics of socially accepted young children with special needs as well as shared characteristics of socially rejected preschool children with special needs
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Improving early reading skills for children in poverty
A summary of a study of the relationship between child, family, classroom, and school characteristics and the early literacy skills of children from low-income families, based on data from the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort
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Poverty and early childhood intervention
A summary of a discussion of findings from the young adult follow-up of Abecedarian Project participants and estimates of a cost-benefit analysis of the project, with implications for future early intervention efforts
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Preparing culturally competence early childhood teachers
A summary of a study examining effective practices for helping early childhood educators develop cultural competency and improve their classroom learning environments
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Quality of childcare affects language development
A summary of a study of the relationship between child care quality and children's language development, based on structural measures of child care quality and videotape analysis of children's language use
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Relationship of English-only to young children's social and language skills
A summary of a study of the relationship between Spanish-speaking by teachers in pre-kindergarten classrooms and children's social skills, the teacher-child relationship, and children's English and Spanish proficiency
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Using music to improve task learning
A description of a music-based intervention to help preschool-aged autistic children learn steps in a task
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Why young children enter early intervention services
A summary of a study using nationally representative data to examine how service providers describe why infants and toddlers are eligible for early intervention services, demographic characteristics associated with eligibility, and a comparison between service providers' descriptions and how parents describe why their child is eligible for services
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