America After 3PM: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
A study of the summer child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students during the summer of 2008, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households
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Behavior mapping: A method for linking preschool physical activity and outdoor design
A description of methods for the affordance of physical activity in outdoor space in organized child care from behavior mapping data on outdoor environmental characteristics and children's physical activity levels, with examples from two preschool centers in North Carolina
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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations
A compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states
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Child care WAGES project: Statewide final report: Fiscal year 2009/2010
An examination of the influence of Project WAGES, a program to supplement the salaries of teachers, directors, and family child care providers, based on data from more than 5,979 child care workers from more than 2,371 in 67 counties in North Carolina
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Comparison of menus to actual foods and beverages served in North Carolina child-care centers
A comparison of menus to actual food and beverages served to children, based on analysis of menus and observations of food served over the course of one day in 84 child care centers in North Carolina in fall of 2005
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A compilation of initiatives to support home-based child care
A compilation of profiles of 96 initiatives that target and support home-based child care
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The diffusion of state-level nonprofit program innovation: The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Project
A study of the adoption of a scholarship program for teachers, directors, and family child care providers of the nonprofit Child Care Services Association in North Carolina by 4 other states, from interviews with 74 policy actors involved with the adoption
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Early care and education state budget actions FY 2010
A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal year 2010, based on a survey of legislative fiscal offices in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories
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The early childhood block grant: A biography of Arizona's early childhood education program
A case study of Arizona's early childhood education program policy in the early 1990s that includes a comparison of Arizona's policy with those of Georgia, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, Illinois, and North Carolina, based on archival sources and interviews with informants
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Effects of a professional development program on classroom practices and outcomes for Latino dual language learners
A randomized, controlled study on the effects of the Nuestros Ninos
professional development program on classroom practices and child outcomes related to language development and early literacy skills in both English and Spanish for 55 teachers and 193 Latino dual language learners enrolled in the North Carolina More at Four Pre-Kindergarten Program
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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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Family socioeconomic status and consistent environmental stimulation in early childhood
A study of the relationship between both math and reading achievement and growth and both family socioeconomic status and environmental stimulation at home, in preschool, in child care, and in 1st-grade classrooms, from a secondary analysis of data on 1,364 children
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Individual differences in preschool children: Temperament or personality?
A validity study of M5-PreSchool measure of personality and its relationship to a measure of temperament traits in a sample of 122 preschool children from a variety of socioeconomic background levels in North Carolina
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Infusing diversity constructs in preservice teacher preparation: The impact of a systematic faculty development strategy
Self assessments of pre-service teachers' knowlege and use of diversity related concepts in coursework, fieldwork and program practices based on pretests and posttests of 93 faculty and their community partners in the Crosswalks Intervention, as implemented across undergraduate early childhood teacher education programs in North Carolina
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Long-term effects of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program: Children's reading and math skills at third grade
A longitudinal follow-up in their third-grade year of two cohorts of participants (starting the program in 2002-2003 and 2003-2004, respectively) in the North Carolina More at Four prekindergarten program, a state-funded initiative to provide high-quality educational experiences to at-risk four-year-olds, that evaluated classroom quality and participant outcomes, based on classroom observations and child assessments
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NCSL technical report: State approaches to school readiness assessment
An examination of states' kindergarten assessment practices and use and reporting of school readiness information, based on data from the 25 states that perform kindergarten assessments
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Pre-kindergarten in the south: Preserving the region's comparative advantage in education
An examination of the provision of prekindergarten services in the Southern United States, and a discussion of early childhood education as the region's comparative educational advantage
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Preschool predictors of narrative writing skills in elementary school children
A study of the relationships between preschool phonological processing, core language abilities, pre-reading skills, and early writing concepts, and writing in kindergarten and grades 3 through 5 and writing growth of 65 typically-developing African American children from nine child care centers in North Carolina
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The role of reflection: Preschool teachers' use of reflective thinking to translate higher education learning into teaching practice
A study of the relationships between self-reported reflection on teaching practices and self-assessment of teacher quality, observations of classroom and teacher quality, institutional and social factors, teacher preparation program type, and demographic variables, based on data collected from 40 preschool teachers in 11 centers that serve 348 children in North Carolina
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Socioeconomic disparities in North Carolina communities: Issues of access and quality of licensed child care
A study of the relationships among child care quality, community socioeconomic context, program characteristics, public funding receipt, and quality rating system participation at child care sites throughout North Carolina, based on analyses of multiple sources of data on the state's communities and from thousands of licensed child care locations across the state
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State child care assistance policies 2010: New federal funds help states weather the storm
A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2009 and February 2010, including changes to income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent copayments, reimbursement rates, and assistance to parents searching for a job, based on a survey of state child care administrators
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The state of preschool 2010: 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 2009-2010 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs
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Supplemental reading help for Kindergarten students: How early should you start?
A comparison of Kindergarten students who received small group reading intervention across the full school year (i.e., early start) with those who began the same intervention in midyear on measures of student’s early literacy from 96 students in two schools divided into treatement and control
groups within each school
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Teachers, families, and communities supporting English language learners in inclusive pre-kindergartens: An evaluation of a professional development model
An examination of teachers' self-assessments of their beliefs and practices in the support of English language learners and their families in their inclusive pre-kindergartens after three interactive training sessions and on-site classroom coaching visits with 24 teachers and 24 teacher assistants
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