Mother-child bookreading in low-income families: Correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life
Raikes, Helen, July/August 2006
Child Development, 77(4), 924-953
An investigation of the impact of mother-child book reading on low income young children's cognitive and language development as well as an examination of book reading in relation to the Early Head Start intervention using data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research?
Scott-Little, Catherine, 2006
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(2), 153-173
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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Early childhood teacher preparation programs in the United States: State report for Virginia
Maxwell, Kelly, 2006
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, National Prekindergarten Center.
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 Virginia
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Preparing early childhood teachers to successfully educate all children: The contribution of state boards of higher education and national professional accreditation organizations
Ray, Aisha, October, 2006
New York: Foundation for Child Development.
A study of the diversity-related content and language in state boards' of higher education and professional accreditation organizations' early childhood teacher standards
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Preparing early childhood teachers to successfully educate all children: The contribution of four-year undergraduate teacher preparation programs
Ray, Aisha, October, 2006
New York: Foundation for Child Development.
A study of whether early childhood teacher bachelor's degree requirements meet the developmental and educational needs of children with special needs, racial and ethnic minority children, children from low-income families, immigrant children, and second language learners
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