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Children Ready for School

A collection of brief research summaries from 2011-2012 that have been carefully reviewed and selected to provide objective, high-quality evidence that is concise and easy to understand.


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Factors Associated with Parent Report of Access to Care and the Quality of Care Received by Children 4 to 17 Years of Age in Georgia — Mar. 2012

Quality Disparities in Child Care for At-Risk Children: Comparing Head Start and Non-Head Start Settings — Mar. 2012


Complete List for 2011 - 2012

Early Child Care and Education: HHS and Education Are Taking Steps to Improve Workforce Data and Enhance Worker Quality — Feb. 2012

Factors Associated with Parent Report of Access to Care and the Quality of Care Received by Children 4 to 17 Years of Age in Georgia — Mar. 2012

Quality Disparities in Child Care for At-Risk Children: Comparing Head Start and Non-Head Start Settings — Mar. 2012

At 6-9 Months, Human Infants Know the Meanings of Many Common Nouns — Feb. 2012

Head Start Program Quality: Examination of Classroom Quality and Parent Involvement in Predicting Children's Vocabulary, Literacy, and Mathematics Achievement Trajectories — Feb. 2012

Military Child Care: DOD Is Taking Actions to Address Awareness and Availability Barriers — Feb. 2012

National Profiles of Classroom Quality and Family Involvement: A Multilevel Examination of Proximal Influences on Head Start Children's School Readiness — Feb. 2012

Age Differences in Online Processing of Video: An Eye Movement Study — Jan. 2012

Age-Related Changes in Decision Making: Comparing Informed and Noninformed Situations — Jan. 2012

Alphabet Knowledge in Preschool: A Rasch Model Analysis — Jan. 2012

The Association Between Preschool Children's Social Functioning and Their Emergent Academic Skills — Jan. 2012

Attention-Seeking During Caregiver Unavailability and Collaboration at Age 2 — Jan. 2012

A Behavior-Genetic Study of the Legacy of Early Caregiving Experiences: Academic Skills, Social Competence, and Externalizing Behavior in Kindergarten — Jan. 2012

Developmental Changes and Individual Differences in Young Children's Moral Judgments — Jan. 2012

Kindergarten Child Care Experiences and Child Achievement and Socioemotional Skills — Jan. 2012

Children's Developing Commitments to Joint Goals — Dec. 2011

Determinants of Household Participation in Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten Program — Dec. 2011

Exploring Explanation: Explaining Inconsistent Evidence Informs Exploratory, Hypothesis-Testing Behavior in Young Children — Dec. 2011

Income and Education as Predictors of Children's School Readiness — Dec. 2011

Individual Differences in Lexical Processing at 18 Months Predict Vocabulary Growth in Typically Developing and Late-Talking Toddlers — Dec. 2011

Examining the Black-White Achievement Gap Among Low-Income Children Using the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development — Sep/Oct. 2011

Learning Problems in Kindergarten Students With Extremely Preterm Birth — Sep. 2011

Interventions Shown to Aid Executive Function Development in Children 4 to 12 Years Old — Aug. 2011

Late Talking and the Risk for Psychosocial Problems During Childhood and Adolescence — Aug. 2011

Teachers' Language Practices and Academic Outcomes of Preschool Children — Aug. 2011

Effects of Nonmaternal Care in the First 3 Years on Children's Academic Skills and Behavioral Functioning in Childhood and Early Adolescence: A Sibling Comparison Study — July/Aug. 2011

Trajectories of the Home Learning Environment Across the First 5 Years: Associations With Children's Vocabulary and Literacy Skills at Prekindergarten — July/Aug. 2011

Early Care and Education Measures: A Critical Review of the Research Related to Dual Language Learners — July 2011

Social-Emotional Development of Dual Language Learners: A Critical Review of the Research — July 2011

Early Childhood Development of Late-Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review — June 2011

Language Abilities in Children Who Were Very Preterm and/or Very Low Birth Weight: A Meta-Analysis — May 2011

A Longitudinal Study of the Social and Academic Competence of Economically Disadvantaged Bilingual Preschool Children — May 2011

Early Care and Education for Children in Immigrant Families — Spring 2011

The Effect of Attending Full-Day Kindergarten on English Learner Students — Spring 2011

Preschoolers' Total Daily Screen Time at Home and by Type of Child Care — Feb. 2011