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Lloyd, Chrishana M.; Kane, Maggie; Seok, Deborah; Vega, Claudia – Child Trends, 2019
Over seven million children from birth through age 5 receive child care in home-based child care (HBCC) settings, the most common form of nonparental child care in the United States. Research shows that professional development can help child care providers improve the quality of care that they offer, potentially improving children's outcomes.…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Young Children, Child Caregivers, Child Development
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Stewart, Endya B.; Stewart, Eric A.; Simons, Ronald L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
Previous research on educational aspirations has focused almost exclusively on micro-level predictors of educational aspirations. Notably absent from these studies are measures reflecting the neighborhood context in which adolescents live. Drawing on Wilson's theory of neighborhood effects, the present study examines the extent to which…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, African American Students