Child and informant influences on behavioral ratings of preschool children
An investigation of relationships among teacher, parent, and observer behavioral ratings of 3- and 4-year-old children within and across children from middle-and low-income backgrounds from 166 preschool children across 2 years of data collection
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Child benefit reform and labor market participation
A comparison of the labor force participation of mothers under two child subsidy policies in western Germany
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Child care facilities development: A report on California's readiness
A study of issues related to child care facilities development and funding in California, based on a survey of 181 child care resource and referral agencies and local child care planning councils
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Childcare, multiculturalism, and welfare state regimes: Policy and practice in the United Kingdom and Sweden
A study of the policy and practice of multiculturalism as well as speech activities in preschool and primary classrooms in 3 minority school districts in London and in Stockholm, from interviews with one academic expert, one national official, three local officials, and 22 public school teachers or administrators in each country, as well as classroom observations
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Children, pupils and staff: National level: Sweden's official statistics on pre-school activities, school-age child care, schools and adult education: Part 2, 2009
A statistical representation of children's participation in the early education system, presented by age and setting, and staff qualifications by setting, based on national data for Sweden in 2009
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Children's transition to school: Voices of Bangladeshi parents in Sydney, Australia
A study of parents' perceptions of their children's transitions to school, their children's school adjustment, and adult stakeholder roles in transitions to school, based on interviews with 10 Bangladeshi immigrant parents with children born in Sydney, Australia
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Cognitive stimulation: Does it mediate or moderate the relationship between income and school readiness?
A study of the moderating or mediating influence of cognitive stimulation activities such as educational outings and home literacy activities on the relationship between school readiness and socioeconomic status based on data from primary caregiver interviews of children 4- through 6-years-old before kindergarten entry
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A comparison of teacher-related classroom conduct, social skills, and teacher-child relationship quality between preschool English learners and preschool English speakers
A study of the relationships between home languages, preschool classroom languages, and child gender and classroom conduct, social skills, teacher-child relationship quality, global classroom quality, and children's receptive language skills from a secondary analysis of data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project with 1034 caregivers, 743 teachers, and 1034 children
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Computer education and computer use by preschool educators
A case study of teachers' community college preparation for the integration of computers in their preschool classrooms and a study of preschool teachers' use of computers and software applications in their classrooms, from a survey of teacher candidates from one community college, 5 interviews with faculty, a review of course catalog descriptions, and interviews with 15 Head Start teachers
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Consumption of public childcare and educational services: An end-user perspective
A study of the relationships between reasons for the choice of kindergarten, kindergarten length of day, and quality of educational services and a comparison of dual-parent and single parent family perspectives on cost assessment for services with respect to to family budgets based on a selected presentation of findings of the questionnaire responses of 703 Bucharest parents of preschool children
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Culturally strong childcare programs for Indigenous children, families and communities
A study of perceptions of culturally strong child care programs for Indigenous families, based on focus groups, community consultations, and interviews with stakeholders from a national sample of 202 Indigenous child care providers, 210 Indigenous community members, and 66 state and territory government representatives
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Can we talk?: Creating effective partnerships between school and afterschool programs
An account of the experience of an after school program director in her attempt to forge a partnership between schools and after school programs in the Live Oak School District in Santa Cruz, California
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A descriptive-comparative study of professional development and observed quality in early care and education programs
A qualitative comparison of content, quantity, intensity, and duration of teachers' professional development experiences between 10 early care and education classrooms rated as good and 10 classrooms rated as poor that serve children ages 2½- through 5-years old, from a secondary analysis of data collected from a large-scale evaluation of Colorado’s Qualistar Quality Rating System between 2000-2003
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Development and feasibility of an HIV and IPV prevention intervention among low-income mothers receiving services in a Missouri day care center
A pilot study of the relationship between participation in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) prevention intervention and social support, self-esteem, readiness for healthful behavior change, attitudes, and use of heath protective behaviors in 31 low income mothers assigned to 4, 8, or 12 week sessions at the site of a large, urban child care center
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Differences in perceptions of California license-exempt childcare providers about developmentally appropriate practices
A comparison of perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs about developmentally appropriate practices for child care based on questionnaire responses of 28 license exempt child care providers with 2 or more years of experience, some who participated in Trustline, an alternative payment program, to some who did not
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Disrupting the impact of socio-contextual disadvantage on school readiness skill attainment among preschool children: The role of Head Start attendance
A study of the relationships between preschooler school readiness skills and duration of Head Start attendance, income-to-needs ratio, financial strain, maternal health problems, and levels of neighborhood danger, as well as a study of duration of Head Start attendance as a moderator of the association between socio-contextual risk exposure and the attainment of school readiness skills by preschoolers, based on questionnaire responses of 167 mothers, their Head Start eligible children, and one 2-year-old from 12 centers in post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, as well as crime reports and children's readiness scores
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Distance matters: Proximity to social service agencies and the utilization of child care subsidies
An examination of the correlation between families' proximity to social service agencies and their likelihood to receive child care subsidies, based on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K)
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Do preschool teachers sustain their use of a new curriculum?
An exploration of the use of a new curriculum by teachers in the follow-up year to the initial implementation, based on a sample of 43 teachers in Head Start and prekindergarten settings who participated in the implementation year of Children's School Success (CSS)
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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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The early childhood educator in a critical learning community: Towards sustainable change
An account of an action-training-research project to improve parent-teacher interactions by employing reflection techniques, based on data collected from 60 educators and 10 managers over a period of 10 months
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Early childhood matters: Evidence from the Effective Pre-School and Primary Education Project
Accounts and discussions of a study of the relationship between developmental outcomes and early care and education experiences within the Effective Pre-School and Primary Education Project (EPPE), and an overview of the communication of study results to policymakers
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Early childhood professionals as a source of social support: The role of parent-professional communication
A survey of maternal perceptions of infant and toddler early childhood professionals as a source of social support, based on data collected from 40 mothers experiencing their first child care placement in Victoria, Australia
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Early Education Emergent Leaders Program evaluation report
An evaluation of the Early Education Emergent Leaders Program, a training and mentoring program for early childhood program directors and administrators in Arizona, that examined participants' program experiences and outcomes
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Early learning and care impact analysis
An analysis of the economic costs and benefits of a proposed early learning and care system for Ontario, Canada
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Early Reading First graduates go to kindergarten: Are achievement gains enduring?
A comparison of early literacy and social skills achievement gains of 97 Early Reading First Head Start graduates and 97 comparison children in the spring of their kindergarten year from the Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) 2003 cohort
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