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  A Look at Community Schools

  1/30/09 - Saba Bireda

  "Children living in poverty face many obstacles outside the classroom that can hinder their success in the classroom. Unaddressed health care needs interfere with learning and cause low attendance. Inadequate and inconsistent housing may deprive students of a safe and quiet place to study. A lack of affordable and accessible child care forces many young adults to sacrifice learning opportunities to care for younger family members. And poverty’s economic stress may cause students to be less...

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  Engaging older youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time

  1/5/10 - Sarah N. Deschenes, Amy Arbreton, Priscilla M. Little, Carla Herrera, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Heather B. Weiss, Diana Lee

  "It’s not just elementary school children who can benefit from strong after-school and other out-of-school time (OST) programs; middle- and high-school students stand to gain as well. But programs have found it is much tougher to recruit older than younger youth and make sure they participate in OST activities regularly. This study looks at almost 200 programs serving mostly disadvantaged young people in six cities that are building systems of out-of-school time programs. Delving into how...

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  A Child Outcome Framework for the Early Childhood Transition Process

  1/19/09 - Beth Rous, Gloria Harbin, Katherine McCormick

  "One of the major service componenets under IDEA for young children with disabilities and their families is specific planning and support for transition as children exit Part C services and enter other programs."

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  A Critical Incident Study of the Transition Experience for Young Children with Disabilities: Recounts by Parents and Professionals

  1/19/09 - Cristian Dogaru, Sharon Rosenkoetter, Beth Rous

  "Critical Incident Technique (CIT) is a research strategy used to gather and analyze information from key informants about a significant experience in their lives. NECTC used CIT to investigate parents' and service providers' perceptions of transition from one service system to another for young children with disabilities and their families. Respondents in the study resided across the United States and participated in a myriad of service systems."

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  A developmental perspective on college & workplace readiness

  1/3/09 - Lippman, L., Atienza, A., Rivers, A., Keith, J.

  This report provides a developmental perspective on what competencies young people need to be ready for college, the workplace, and the transition to adulthood. National hand-wringing about the lack of preparedness of high school graduates for college and the workplace has catalyzed researchers, educators, and policymakers to define the skills and competencies students need in order to be successful. These prescriptions tend to focus either on college readiness or on workplace readiness. At...

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  A guide to analyzing data from the Family Outcomes Survey

  1/18/09 - Melissa Raspa, Kathleen Hebbeler, Don Bailey

  The Family Outcomes Survey (FOS) provides a way for state and local programs serving young children to assess the extent to which families have achieved a variety of outcomes. This document provides suggestions on how to analyze the data from the survey; the analyses can then be used to plan for program improvement. The document is written for state agency staff, but many of the suggested analyses could be carried out at the local level as well.

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  A matter of degrees: Preparing teachers for the Pre-K classroom

  1/30/10 - Marisa Bueno, Linda Darting-Hammond, Danielle Gonzales

  "Across the nation, states are investing substantial dollars in publicly funded, voluntary pre-kindergarten programs. These investments and initiatives come in response to research on brain development,1 accountability pressures to improve student achievement in elementary and secondary schools and strong evidence that high-quality pre-k can yield long-term benefits for children and society. The ultimate value of those investments, however, depends not only on the legislation that...

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  A Review of Research in Early Childhood Transition: Child and Family Studies

  1/19/09 - Sharon Rosenkoetter, Carol Schroeder, Beth Rous, Ann Hains, Jordan Shaw, Katherine McCormick

  "It is widely accepted in the early childhood field that for young children in both with and without disabilities the transition from one type or level of services to another is an important life event and process. Transition planning for young children with disabilities and their families has been prescribed by Federal legislation since 1991"

• Academic Performance Gap Between Summer-Birthday and Fall-Birthday Children in Grades K-8

  1/1/06 - Oshima, T. C., Domaleski, Christopher S.

  Much interest exists among parents and researchers regarding the benefits and drawbacks of delaying kindergarten entrance to acquire academic advantage ("redshirting"). How evident is this assumed advantage at the kindergarten level and beyond? The authors evaluated largescale test data from Grades K-8 to investigate the difference in performance between younger children (summer birthday) and older children (fall birthday). The performance gap evident in kindergarten decreased rapidly in...

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  Achievement Gaps Between Female and Male Latino Students

  1/16/09 - Julio Cammarota

  Throughout the 1990’s, I documented the education, work and family experiences of Latino youth in California (see my book, Suenos Americanos). My intention was to understand how young Latinos might achieve some success (i.e. educational achievement or decent employment) in a hostile political and economic environment. The most surprising finding of my research was that Latina females fared much better than Latino males, sometimes within the same family.

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  Acknowledging Children’s Positive Behaviors

  1/18/09 - Matt Timm, Sharon Doubet

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Acknowledging positive behaviors is a strategy...

• Addressing the Achievement Gap Between Minority and Nonminority Children by Increasing Access to Gifted Programs

  1/1/04 - Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula, Lee, Seon-young, Ngoi, Mephie

  Project EXCITE is a collaborative program of a university-based gifted center and local school districts designed to prepare gifted minority elementary and middle school students for advanced tracks in math and science in high school. This paper describes the characteristics and components of the EXCITE program and gives data regarding the academic and school achievement of participating students over the past 3 years. Results showed that most of the students were retained in the program...

• Addressing the Achievement Gap Between Minority and Nonminority Children by Increasing Access to Gifted Programs

  1/1/04 - Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula, Lee, Seon-Young, Ngoi, Mephie, Ngoi, Daphne

  Project EXCITE is a collaborative program of a university-based gifted center and local school districts designed to prepare gifted minority elementary and middle school students for advanced tracks in math and science in high school. This paper describes the characteristics and components of the EXCITE program and gives data regarding the academic and school achievement of participating students over the past 3 years. Results showed that most of the students were retained in the program...

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  Adolescent Violence and Unintentional Injury in the United States

  1/23/09 - Susan Wilde Schwarz

  "Overall rates of injury and death increase dramatically from childhood to late adolescence. Due to developmental and social factors, such as time spent without adult supervision and increasing independence, adolescents are more likely to engage in risk-taking behaviors than either younger children or adults. Biology also plays a role. The maturation of brain networks responsible for self-regulation often does not occur until late adolescence, making adolescents more likely to engage in...

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  All our children? The health and education of children of immigrants: 2007 annual report

  1/5/09 - Foundation for Child Development,

  "The centerpiece of the Foundation for Child Development's 2007 Annual Report, All Our Children? The Health and Education of Children of Immigrants is an essay by Alexandra Fuenmayor Starr. Ms. Starr writes about U.S. immigration policy for Slate, The New Republic, and The American Scholar. Her essay, "The Dividends of Investing Early: Why We Need to Help the Youngest Children of Immigrants," argues that young children of immigrants, over 90 percent of whom are citizens, will have a large...

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  Assistive Technology for Infants, Toddlers,and Young Children with Disabilities

  1/10/09 - Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers,

  Research shows that assistive technology (AT) can help young children with disabilities to learn developmental skills.(1) Its use may help infants and toddlers to improve in many areas: • social skills including sharing and taking turns • communication skills • attention span • fine and gross motor skills • self confidence and independence The right type of assistive technology can improve a child’s ability to communicate. This in turn may help reduce some negative behaviors...