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National Household Education Surveys program of 2005: After-school programs and activities: 2005 An examination of data from the After-School Programs and Activities survey on the participation of kindergarteners through eighth graders in after school programs, with discussion of the survey’s design, the different types of after school care, their participation rates, and the expenses surrounding various types of after school care |
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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families An interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, analyzing child and family outcomes through the first two years of children's lives. |
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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families: Volume I. Technical report An evaluation of the effectiveness of Early Head Start programs in improving children's outcomes, based on a national assessment of 3,000 children at 17 sites |
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Multidimensionality of teachers' graded responses for preschoolers' stylistic learning behavior: The Learning-to-Learn scales A validity study that includes both exploratory and confirmatory analyses of the Learning-to-Learn scales, a longitudinal study of its sensitivity to growth, and a study of its predictive power against future deficits in cognitive achievement, based on a data from 1,980 Head Start attendees in 80 selected school districts of Philadelphia in the 2006-2007 academic year and 733 newly enrolled students from the same classes for 2007-2008 academic year |
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K-2 standards and assessments: A 50-state review A descriptive study of each state's kindergarten, first grade, and second grade content standards and mandatory assessments |
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Child care problems and work outcomes for low-skilled mothers A study of the child care problems and choices of urban, poor, and working mothers, and a study of the relationship between work-related outcomes and child care problems, broken down by a variety of household demographic measures and based on data collected from 1,072 mothers from a sample of low income Philadelphia neighborhoods |
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Early childhood teacher preparation programs in the United States: State report for Pennsylvania An overview of the characteristics of the programs, faculty, and students in early childhood teacher preparation programs to prepare the workforce of service providers to children under age 5 in Pennsylvania |
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Rush to assessment: The role private early childhood service providers play in assessing child and program outcomes A study of large, private non-profit and for-profit early childhood service providers' child and program quality assessment efforts, as well as of programs' use of assessment data for management purposes and their experiences of state and national accountability initiatives, based on interviews with senior program executives |
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An evidence based approach to estimating the national and state-by-state costs of an integrated prek-3rd education program A study of the national and state costs of providing universal, high-quality prekindergarten through third grade education, derived from an evidence-based model for identifying the components and estimating the costs of high-quality prekindergarten through third grade education in a prototypical elementary school |
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The Build Initiative: Building early learning systems in the states: A report on the fourth year An examination of the contributions of the Build Initiative in its fourth year of fostering of state partnerships to develop comprehensive systems of early learning and care |
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A descriptive study of the Head Start Health Component: Vol. II. Technical report Descriptive findings from a study of the Head Start Health Component, using child health records and standard data from the Head Start Program Information Report (PIR), plus observations and interviews with parents and staff, collected during the Spring of 1994 from a sample of 80 Head Start centers |
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Early childhood "pay-for-success" social impact finance: A PKSE bond example to increase school readiness and reduce special education costs A discussion of financing early childhood care and education (ECCE) programs through the use of social impact bonds, which would fund ECCE services and then be repaid out of savings arising from reduced special education costs in the future, and an analysis of an example based on a Pennsylvania school district |
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Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning A review of research on summer learning loss and summer program effectiveness and costs, and an examination of school district efforts to develop summer learning programs, based on case studies and key informant interviews |
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National evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program: 1994-1997 final report The second national evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program, examining what has changed and what has remained stable over its first eight years, specifically addressing who and what is served by the program, federal funding methods, participant's developmental and educational gains, best practices, and the success with which the program is reaching its target population |
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Making a difference in the lives of infants and toddlers and their families: The impacts of Early Head Start: Vol. I. Final technical report A report of the findings from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of the impact of Early Head Start programs on the development of infants and toddlers, and the parenting and family development of low-income families across the US |
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The role of public libraries in children's literacy development: An evaluation report A report evaluating the effects of library exposure on Pennsylvania children's literacy development, using both qualitative and quantitative data |
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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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Preschool in the public school: A case study of a program implementation for at-risk four-year olds A description of the cognitive gains as well as a case study of the implementation of Opening the World of Learning curriculum over the course of the first half of a school year at a half-day preschool classroom in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, funded by Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts |
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Examining the potential of community-based after-school programs for Latino youth A first study of the relationships among time in after school program (ASP), youth perceptions of program quality, and program emphasis on ethnic socialization and ethnic identity development and self-worth, based on data from 46 urban Latino adolescents and a second study of the relationship between participation in a community-based ASP and emotion regulation skills in 118 rural Latino students, between 6- and 12-years-old in a rural Pennsylvania county |
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Book reading interactions between African American and Puerto Rican Head Start children and their mothers An observational study examining and comparing the interaction styles between African American and Puerto Rican mothers and their Head Start children during shared book reading |
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Formative evaluation of Bark Park Place: Home visit report An inquiry into the influence of exposure to Bark Park Place on parents? reading practices with children, based on home visits with 13 families from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Kansas City, Missouri |
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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research? An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness |
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A count for quality: Child care center directors on rating and improvement systems A study of child care center directors' views of child care quality rating and improvement systems and their components, based on interviews with 48 directors from 9 states and a roundtable forum with 15 of the 48 directors |
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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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After-school program attendance and the social development of rural Latino children of immigrant families A study of the influence of attendance on the social outcomes of Latino elementary school children who participated in an academically-oriented after school program, based on attendance records and teacher, parent, and child questionnaires |
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