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Does maternal employment following childbirth support or inhibit low-income children's long-term development? An analysis of the relationship between maternal employment in the two years after childbearing and children's cognitive and behavioral functioning at age 7, with additional analyses of the moderating roles of race/ethnicity and child care type on that relationship, based on data from 444 urban, low-income, predominantly African American and Hispanic families from the Three-City Study, a longitudinal, multi-method analysis of the well-being of low income children and families in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago following welfare reform |
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The home instruction for parents of preschool youngsters program's relationship with mother and school outcomes An investigation of the relationship between participation in the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program and mothers' involvement in education at home and school, student school readiness in kindergarten, and student academic outcomes in third grade, with a comparison of HIPPY and non-HIPPY 5-year-olds in terms of enrollment rates in prekindergarten, attendance rates in kindergarten, and kindergarten retention, and a comparison of former HIPPY participants in third grade and non-former HIPPY students in terms of scores on state math and reading achievement tests, based on data from a longitudinal study of 2 north Texas HIPPY sites |
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Fort Worth After School A comparison of the educational involvement, attitudes, and perceptions of parents whose children do and do not participate in Fort Worth After School, a publicly-funded program in Fort Worth, Texas, based on survey responses from 16,051 parents |
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Fort Worth After School 2009-10 evaluation report An evaluation of Fort Worth After School, a publicly-funded program in Fort Worth, Texas, that examines program characteristics, activities, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction, as well as participant academic outcomes, based on student attendance and assessment data, program observations, and student, parent, teacher, principal, and program staff surveys |
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Parents and the high cost of child care: 2012 report A state-by-state study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, 4-year-old children, and school-age children in 2011, based on a national survey of state child care resource and referral networks and local child care resource and referral agencies |
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Low-income families' selection of child care for their young children An assessment of the relationship between child care type experienced by low income urban preschoolers and child characteristics, mother characteristics, city of residence, mother's psychological resources, and child care preferences, based on data from 802 children drawn from the first and second waves of the Three-City Study, a longitudinal, multi-method analysis of the well-being of low income children and families in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago following welfare reform |
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2011 Texas child care market rate survey: Final report A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the state of Texas in 2011 by provider type, full-day or part-day status, and age group, including information on transportation, nontraditional hours care, accreditation, quality rating status, and subsidized children, based on survey responses from 1,662 licensed child care centers, 469 licensed child care homes, and 735 registered child care homes |
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Predicting kindergarteners' response to early reading intervention: An examination of progress-monitoring measures A study of the predictive validity of The Early Reading Intervention (ERI) curriculum-embedded mastery checks of phonemic and alphabetic/decoding performance and of individual Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) nonsense word fluency and phoneme segmentation fluency-- two forms of progress-monitoring measures, on reading outcomes of kindergarten students, and an examination of what combinations of both DIBELS and curriculum-embedded phonemic and alphabetic/decoding measures have the best predictive validity, based on data from 64 children in Connecticut and in Texas kindergartens |
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Why should pre-k be more like elementary school?: A case study of pre-k reform A case study of reasons for stakeholders' attraction to the Texas Early Education Model (TEEM), a reform process that aligns their prekindergarten programs both horizontally across prekindergarten programs within districts and vertically with their K-12 education systems, and, after implementing the TEEM model, their views of the influence of their participation on their programs, based on data from 23 participants across 4 of the 5 districts that participated in TEEM |
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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6 |
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A pilot study of a pictorial bilingual nutrition education game to improve the consumption of healthful foods in a Head Start population A comparison of the frequency of water, soda, milk, fruits, and vegetables offered to children in the home both at the beginning and at the end of the school year by parents after the introduction of a bilingual nutrition game to parents at school start and its regular use in Head Start centers over the course of the year, based on data from 413 parents of Head Start children at the Bastrop County Head Start in Texas |
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Examining cost fulfillment: Child care policy and strategies A study of correlations among a variety of characteristics of child care subsidy eligibility policies in 20 cities across 15 states, and an identification of four categories of similar types of city-specific subsidy offerings, based on an examination of the local policies regarding the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) subsidies |
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Study of early education in Texas: The relationship of pre-k attendance to 3rd grade test results A study of the relationship of school-based prekindergarten attendance to third grade academic performance in Texas, based on test scores from more than 200,000 students enrolled in kindergarten in the 2000 school year who were also enrolled in third grade in either the 2003 or 2004 school years |
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Sink or swim: Child care teachers' perceptions of entry training experiences A study of teachers' perceptions of their initial preservice and in-service training experiences, based on interviews with 18 child care teachers working in 6 for-profit centers in a suburban area of central Texas |
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The state of preschool 2011: State preschool yearbook An annual review of access to, quality 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 2010-2011 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs |
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Texas Head Start State Collaboration Office Head Start/Early Head Start needs assessment survey: 2008-2009 survey results An assessment of Texas Early Head Start and Head Start program needs in the cooperation, coordination, and collaboration of services in 10 designated priority areas, based on surveys from 47 Head Start grantees |
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Leaving children to chance: NACCRRA's ranking of state standards and oversight for small family child care homes: 2012 update A ranking of state regulation and oversight of family child care homes against 16 benchmarks, based on an analysis of state child care licensing regulations |
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Instruction in Spanish in pre-kindergarten classrooms and child outcomes for English language learners An examination of the relationship between the language, reading, and math skills of English language learners and both the proportion of instruction in Spanish and observed quality of teacher-child interactions, based on data from 357 Spanish-speaking 4-year-old children who attended state-funded pre-kindergarten programs in 11 states |
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State pre-k assessment policies: Issues and status A discussion of considerations for and approaches to the assessment of young children and a study of state prekindergarten child assessment policies in the 2011-2012 school year, based on a survey of state prekindergarten program personnel |
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State early childhood advisory councils: An overview of implementation across the states An examination of developments and variation among state early childhood advisory councils, based on a review of state applications for grants provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as well as updates provided by council leadership |
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Risk for poor performance on a language screening measure for bilingual preschoolers and kindergarteners A documentation of the risk for language impairment in Latino children with different levels of exposure to English and Spanish, with comparisons by language group, year of first English exposure, child age, and mother's education, based on data from 1,029 preschool- and kindergarten-age children and their parents in 12 schools across three school districts in Central Texas and Northern Utah |
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Observations of teacher-child interactions in classrooms serving Latinos and dual language learners: Applicability of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in diverse settings A test of the validity of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) for the prediction of academic outcomes and the measurement of social interactions in classrooms with varying compositions of English only and dual language learners, based on a secondary analysis of data collected in 721 prekindergarten classrooms in 11 states |
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Ethnic differences in social-emotional development in preschool: The impact of teacher child relationships and classroom quality A study of differences in teachers' perceptions of prekindergarten children's behavior problems by ethnic group and gender, and a second study of the relationship between both classroom and teacher quality and children's behavior problems, based on a secondary analysis of two multi-state prekindergarten studies |
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Process evaluation: Power of the Wind pilot project: A six state partnership to engage youth with wind energy A process evaluation of the pilot of Power of the Wind, a 4-H curriculum for middle school children, that examines a train-the-trainer implementation model, youth interest and engagement, and connections across pilot sites |
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Early daycare attendance increase the risk for respiratory infections and asthma of children A study of the associations between both the quantity and type of child care used and the occurrence of both respiratory tract infections and allergic symptoms in children, based on questionnaire responses of 3,766 parents In the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program in northeast Texas |
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