Rochester Early Childhood Assessment Partnership: 2007-08 twelfth annual report
Lehmann, Christine, October 2009
(Number T09-008). Rochester, NY: Children's Institute.
Findings from the twelfth year of an assessment of the quality, parental satisfaction, and the outcomes of children in early childhood programs in Rochester, New York, based on parent surveys observations of children and their classrooms
Reports & Papers
Low-income Latino mothers’ booksharing styles and children’s emergent literacy development
Caspe, Margaret, Q3 2009
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 24(3), 1-19
An examination the relationship between maternal booksharing styles and low-income Latino children’s language and literacy development based on data collected from 80 New York City area Latino Head Start mothers and their 4-year-old children as they read a wordless children’s picture book together in their homes
Reports & Papers
We can do better: 2009 update: NACCRRA's ranking of state child care center regulations and oversight
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, March 2009
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.
A ranking of state regulation and oversight of child care centers, based on an analysis of state child care licensing regulations
Reports & Papers
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Barnett, W. Steven, 2009
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research.
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 2008-2009 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs
Reports & Papers
Windows of opportunity: A look at pre-k on Long Island
Friedman, Dana E., 2009
Plainview, NY: Early Years Institute.
A study of public prekindergarten on Long Island, New York, including the reasons that participating school districts offer public prekindergarten, the process of planning and implementing a program, experiences working with community-based providers, and program quality indicators
Reports & Papers
Teaching children of immigrants: A multi-sited ethnographic study of preschool teachers in five U.S. cities
Adair, Jennifer Keys, April 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University, Tempe
An ethnographic multi-site study of teachers' work with children of immigrants and immigrant families in five U.S. cities, from 10 video-cued focus groups with a diverse set of preschool teachers in different preschool settings
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National AIAN Head Start Collaboration needs assessment 2009
National American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start Collaboration Office, 2009
Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development.
A study of the collaboration and professional development activities of American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start grantees, based on a survey of 153 grantees
Reports & Papers
Unequal opportunities for preschoolers: Differing standards for licensed child care centers and state-funded prekindergarten programs
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, February, 2009
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.
A comparison of state licensing regulations for center-based child care and early education programs to state prekindergarten program standards, as well as to Head Start standards and military child care regulations, using a quality standards checklist
Reports & Papers
An evidence based approach to estimating the national and state-by-state costs of an integrated prek-3rd education program
Picus, Larry, January, 2009
North Hollywood, CA: Lawrence O. Picus and Associates.
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 2007 Child Care Licensing Study: Final report
National Child Care Information Center (U.S.), February, 2009
Lexington, KY: National Association for Regulatory Administration.
A compilation of survey data on state licensing programs and policies for child care centers and small and large family child care homes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2007
Reports & Papers
Meaningful linkages between summer programs, schools, and community partners: Conditions and strategies for success
McLaughlin, Brenda, 2009
Baltimore: National Summer Learning Association.
An examination of strategies to develop partnerships among schools, community organizations, and out-of-school time summer programs, based on interviews with providers of 11 summer programs that have established successful partnerships
Reports & Papers
State-based home visiting: Strengthening programs through state leadership
Johnson, Kay, February, 2009
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty.
A study of the characteristics of state-based home visiting programs, including their structure, financing, and design, and of state efforts to strengthen programs, based on a survey of state program staff and administrators and on a roundtable discussion
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Early care and education state budget actions FY 2009
Poppe, Julie, May 2009
Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures.
A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal year 2009, based on a survey of legislative fiscal staff in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories
Reports & Papers
Providing extra supports for language and literacy development to struggling learners in preschool
Smith, Sheila, July 2009
NHSA Dialog, 12(3), 210-226
A description of the outcomes of and strategies used by the New York University Early Reading First (ERF) program to deliver individualized early literacy instruction to students, based on a sample of 4-year-old children from 5 full-day preschool intervention sites assessed twice throughout the program year
Reports & Papers
Gender differences in the relationship between attention problems and expressive language and emerging academic skills in preschool-aged children
Zevenbergen, Andrea A., 2009
Early Child Development and Care, , 1-12
An examination of the relationship between attention problems, expressive language skills and knowledge of basic academic concepts in19 boys and 23 girls, preschool-aged, from middle class families from rural communities in Western New York
Reports & Papers
Partners in Family Child Care: 2008-2009 year 1 report
Peterson, Shira May, October 2009
(Number T09-009). Rochester, NY: Children's Institute.
Findings from the first year of the implementation of Partners in Family Child Care, an initiative to improve the early literacy and socioemotional outcomes of children in family child care, based on data from 30 urban family child care providers in Rochester, New York
Reports & Papers
Cortisol patterns at home and child care: Afternoon differences and evening recovery in children attending very high quality full-day center-based child care
Watamura, Sarah, July-August 2009
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30(4), 475-485
A study of the relationship between measurements of classroom quality and changes in children's cortisol levels at three child care centers in upstate New York which score very highly on a measurement of quality
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Youth Development Institute's Beacons Young Adolescent Initiative: Evaluation update
Baker, Anita, June 2009
New York: Fund for the City of New York, Youth Development Institute.
An evaluation of the Beacon Young Adolescent Initiative (BYA), an initiative to improve the outcomes of students aged 9 through 14-years-old by increasing their participation in out of school time programs, based on information gathered from 7 Beacon Centers in New York City and 3 in San Francisco, California during the 2008-2009 school year
Reports & Papers
State child care assistance policies 2009: Most states hold the line, but some lose ground in hard times
Schulman, Karen, September, 2009
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.
A study of changes to state child care assistance policies from February 2008 to February 2009, including changes to income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent co-payments, and reimbursement rates, based on a survey of state child care administrators
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