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Download full textDanaher, Joan, Ed.; Kraus, Robert, Ed.; Armijo, Caroline, Ed.; Hipps, Cherie, Ed.; Cory, Steven, Ed.; Lazara, Alex, Ed. – National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2006
This 2006 edition of the Section 619 Profile updates information on state policies, programs, and practices under the Preschool Grants Program (Section 619 of Part B) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It presents current and/or historical information for all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, which are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Profiles, Indians
Maryland State Department of Education, 2008
Each year, the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) informs policymakers and practitioners of what children know and are able to do when they start formal education in kindergarten. This report, which is unique in its kind nationally, provides a profile of children's skill levels as they enter school based on the evaluation of their…
Descriptors: African American Children, Special Schools, School Readiness, Learning Readiness
Shores, Elizabeth F.; Barbaro, Erin; Barbaro, Michael C.; Flenner, Michelle; Bell, Lynn – National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives - Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute, 2007
The Early Childhood Atlas facilitates spatial analysis in early childhood services research for the promotion of greater quality and accessibility of early care and education. The Atlas team collects and geocodes federal, state and nongovernmental datasets about early childhood services, integrating selected data elements into its online mapmaking…
Descriptors: Young Children, Atlases, Early Childhood Education, Access to Education
Filipson, Leni; Schyller, Ingela – 1985
This is the first of a planned series of investigations of the media habits and other cultural activities of 3- to 8-year-old Swedish children. Diagrams show the percent of children who use the various media on an average day and the frequency of their participation in such activities as visits to the theater, museum, or library. The amount of…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Foreign Countries, Mass Media, Statistical Surveys
Direct linkCassady, Jerrell C.; Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
Following research on phonological awareness development, this study explores children's acquisition of blending skills using three types of stimuli: body-coda, onset-rime, and phonemes. The results demonstrated that kindergarten children consistently gained proficiency for blending body-coda stimuli prior to onset-rime stimuli and phonemes. The…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Young Children, Phonemes, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedReynolds, Cecil R. – Psychology in the Schools, 1985
The Draw-a-Design and Draw-a-Child, two subtests of the McCarthy Scales, are the best-normed drawing tests for children aged two and a half to eight and a half years but have no age-corrected deviation scaled scores available for interpretation. Scaled scores for use in interpretation are presented for these tests. (Author/NRB)
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Nonverbal Tests, Norms, Scaling
Peer reviewedArseneault, Louise; Kim-Cohen, Julia; Taylor, Alan; Caspi, Avshalom; Moffitt, Terrie E. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2005
Past research suggests that young children are incapable of reporting information about their own behavior problems. To test this, we examined the validity and the usefulness of children's self-reports in the E-Risk Study, a nationally representative birth cohort of 2,232 children. We used the Berkeley Puppet Interview to obtain children's…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Psychometrics, Young Children, Behavior Problems
Snyder, Thomas D.; de Brey, Cristobal; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
The 2017 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 53rd in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The "Digest" has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977-78, 1983-84, and 1985-86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Aid, Educational Finance
Snyder, Thomas D.; de Brey, Cristobal; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
The 54th in a series of publications initiated in 1962, the purpose of the "Digest" is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of education from prekindergarten through graduate school. It contains data on a variety of topics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Aid, Educational Finance
Public Policy Forum, 2009
This report is the latest in a series of reports investigating the link between high quality early childhood education and economic development. Longitudinal research from national experts indicates that high quality early childhood programs are likely to impart significant social, academic, and economic benefits to the children who participate,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children, Kindergarten
Klostermann, Brenda K.; White, Bradford R.; Presley, Jennifer B. – Online Submission, 2006
This report presents the results of the Illinois Survey of Early Childhood Certificants, which we distributed to over 4,000 individuals in Spring 2005. The survey found that certified teachers are willing to consider working in Illinois early childhood centers under the right conditions, and that better salaries would make such positions more…
Descriptors: Young Children, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Certification, Early Childhood Education
Iruka, I. U.; Carver, P. R. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This report presents selected data on the nonparental care arrangements and educational programs of preschool children, consisting of care by relatives, care by persons to whom they were not related, and participation in day care centers and preschool programs including Head Start or Early Head Start. It focuses on children under age 6 who have…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Child Care Centers, Preschool Children, Young Children
Snyder, Howard N. – 2000
Until recently, law enforcement and policymakers had few hard data on the child victims of sexual abuse, offenders, and other characteristics of these crimes on which to base a response. The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), capturing a wide range of information on each sexual assault incident reported to law enforcement, can…
Descriptors: Crime, Criminals, Incest, National Surveys
Tourangeau, Karen; Brick, Mike; Le, Thanh; Wan, Siu; Weant, Margaret; Nord, Christine; Vaden-Kiernan, Nancy; Hagedorn, Mary; Bissett, Elizabeth; Dulaney, Richard; Fowler, Jean; Pollack, Judith; Rock, Donald; Weiss, Michael J.; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Hausken, Elvira Germino; West, Jerry; Rathbun, Amy; Walston, Jill – National Center for Education Statistics, 2004
This document highlights key information needed to work with the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) data and points the reader to the appropriate sections of the User's Manual so that they can get started quickly. To read more about any particular topic, the reader should go to the indicated section of the…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 3, Student Records, Kindergarten
Sweet, Monica A.; Appelbaum, Mark I. – Child Development, 2004
Home visiting programs for families with young children have been in effect for many years; however, this is the first comprehensive meta-analytic effort to quantify the usefulness of home visits as a strategy for helping families across a range of outcomes. Sixty home visiting programs contributed data to analysis within 5 child and 5 parent…
Descriptors: Young Children, Home Visits, Effect Size, Meta Analysis
