The effect of a classroom-based intensive robotics and programming workshop on sequencing ability in early childhood
This paper examines the impact of programming robots on sequencing ability during a 1-week intensive robotics workshop at an early childhood STEM magnet school in the Harlem area of New York City. Children participated in computer programming activities using a developmentally appropriate tangible programming language CHERP, specifically designed to program a robot's behaviors. The study assessed 27 participants' sequencing skills before and after the programming and robotics curricular intervention using a picture-story sequencing task and compared those skills to a control group. Pre-test and post-test scores were compared using a paired sample t test. The group of children who participated in the 1-week robotics and programming workshop experienced significant increases in post-test compared to pre-test sequencing scores. (author abstract)
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Early childhood education leadership development compendium: A view of the current landscape
A study of the characteristics of programs that support leadership development in the early childhood education field, based on survey responses from 55 leadership development programs
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Legally-exempt child care: What does it mean in New York State?
A comparison of license-exempt child care provision and policies in New York State to provision and policies in California, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington, based on state surveys and key informant interviews
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QUALITYstarsNY Readiness Project evaluation report
An evaluation of training efforts as part of the implementation of QUALITYstarsNY, New York State's quality rating and improvement system, that examines child care providers' experiences of facilitator-led trainings and facilitators' experiences of the training they received themselves, based on a survey of 24 facilitators and 903 child care providers
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QUALITYstarsNY Recruitment Project evaluation report
An evaluation of efforts to recruit early care and education programs for the 2012-2014 implementation of QUALITYstarsNY, New York State's quality rating and improvement system, based on data collected from 7 recruitment agencies, 419 QUALITYstarsNY applicants, and 9 quality improvement specialists
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Estimates of child care eligibility and receipt for fiscal year 2009
An examination of children's eligibility for and receipt of federal child care subsidies under federal parameters and state-defined rules
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Trends in group child care home licensing regulations and policies for 2011
An analysis of state group child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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Trends in family child care home licensing requirements and policies for 2011
An analysis of state family child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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Trends in child care center licensing regulations and policies for 2011
An analysis of state child care center licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, child-adult ratios, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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Championing success: Business organizations for early childhood investments
A study of the early childhood policy and advocacy efforts of formal business membership organizations, based on survey responses from 104 local chambers of commerce and from 121 state business roundtables, state chambers of commerce, and city chambers of commerce
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The state of preschool 2012: State preschool yearbook
An annual review of access to, quality standards in, and resources devoted to state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia during the 2011-2012 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs
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We can do better: Child Care Aware of America's ranking of state child care center regulations and oversight: 2013 update
A review of program requirements and oversight in state child care center licensing regulations, based on an analysis of state child care licensing regulations and a survey of child care licensing directors in each state, the District of Columbia, and at the United States Department of Defense
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Teachers' emotional support consistency predicts children's achievement gains and social skills
A study of the relationship between consistency of teachers' emotional support and academic and social outcomes for young children, based on multiple observations conducted in 694 early care and education classrooms
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A comparison of workshop training versus intensive, experiential training for improving behavior support skills in early educators
A comparison of the effects of two training approaches--a one-day workshop and an intensive training condition that included a one-day workshop plus an additional four days of practice--on teachers' use of positive behavioral supports for preschool children, based on data from 88 teachers and aides randomly assigned to one of the two training conditions in Head Start classrooms in Western New York
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Evaluation of the 4-H Science Initiative: Year 2 implementation study
An evaluation of 4-H Science, an initiative to increase 4-H science, technology, engineering, and applied math program offerings, that examines state-level implementation of 4-H Science and characteristics of successful 4-H Science programs, based on interviews with state and county 4-H leaders
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4-H Science Initiative: Youth Engagement, Attitudes, and Knowledge study
An evaluation of 4-H Science, an initiative to increase 4-H science, engineering, and technology program offerings, that examines: 4-H Science program characteristics and activities; the science-related attitudes, activities, and skills of participants; and the relationship of participant characteristics to their science-related attitudes, activities, and skills, based on survey responses from 182 4-H Science educators and from 486 children attending 4-H Science programs
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Bringing transmedia to expanded learning settings: Emerging practices
An examination of efforts by 11 public television stations to incorporate transmedia storytelling, which links interactive games, television series, and websites to established children's educational characters, into out-of-school time programs serving young children, based on site visits, progress reports, and interviews with television station staff
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"This is no way to operate a critical service for children and families!": How the lack of long-term investment in after-school and early childhood education programs affects NYC's children and families
A study of New York City after school and child care program providers' attitudes toward and responses to uncertainty over public funding, based on survey responses from representatives of 387 after school and child care programs
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Young children's early experiences: Examining differences on Long Island
An examination of the availability of, access to, and quality of child care and early education services in 8 communities on Long Island, New York, based on a service provision scan, which includes observations, interviews, site visits, and document reviews, and on observations of 27 child care and early education providers
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Teachers' roles in infants' play and its changing nature in a dynamic group care context
A case study of changes in teachers' roles in infants' play over the course of three months, based on data from 3 teachers in an infant group child care setting in a university-based child care center in New York City
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Who's the boss?: The political economy of unpaid care work and food sharing in Brooklyn, USA
A case study of child care workers' practices of sharing food among themselves as well as with the children in their charge, based on data collected between 2004 and 2007 from West Indian child care providers in Brooklyn, New York
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Rochester Early Childhood Assessment Partnership: 2011-2012 fifteenth annual report
A study of classroom quality, parents' involvement, and changes in children's academic, socioemotional, and motor development in early childhood programs in Rochester, New York, based on more than 1,500 parent surveys, 2,000 teacher reports, and 90 classroom observations
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GRASA after-school assessment: 2011-2012 seventh annual report
A study of the quality of after school programs in Rochester, New York, based on 25 program observations at 17 sites
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Community Place 2011-12 after school program: Data summary
A study of changes in the socioemotional competencies of students participating in after school programs in Rochester, New York, during the 2011-2012 school year, based on teacher reports for 180 students
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Effect of early educational intervention on younger siblings: The Infant Health and Development Program
A study of the relationship between participation of an older sibling in an early intervention program and the younger sibling's measures of intelligence, youth behavioral problems, and expectations of the future, based on data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), an eight-site randomized trial of three years of early education for premature low-birth-weight infants who were followed up through age 18, and 229 siblings of participating children born within 5 years of the IHDP study participants
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