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Ansari, Arya; Pivnick, Lilla; Gershoff, Elizabeth; Crosnoe, Robert; Orozco-Lapray, Diana – Grantee Submission, 2018
With a qualitative approach drawing from four focus groups, this study explored what aspects of preschool are valued most by 30 low-income Latino/a immigrant parents with children enrolled in a state-funded preschool program in Texas. Beyond the push and pull factors of necessity, convenience, and supply, parents reported valuing the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Augustine, Jennifer March; Cavanagh, Shannon E.; Crosnoe, Robert – Social Forces, 2009
The social and human capital that educational attainment provides women enables them to better navigate their children's passages through school. In this study, we examine a key mechanism in this intergenerational process: mothers' selection of early child care. Analyses of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development revealed that…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Capital, Educational Attainment, Mothers
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Crosnoe, Robert; Cooper, Carey E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
Working from a core perspective on the developmental implications of economic disadvantage, this study attempted to identify "family-based" mechanisms of economic effects on early learning and their potential "school-based" remedies. Multilevel analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort revealed that…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Teacher Qualifications, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth