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The social competence of Latino kindergartners and growth in mathematical understanding.

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C Galindo… - Developmental Psychology, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract 1. We know that social competence contributes to young children's adaptation to,
and cognitive learning within, classroom settings. Yet initial evidence is mixed on the social
competencies that Latino children bring to kindergarten and the extent to which these ...
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Synthesis of research on school readiness and kindergarten retention.

LA Shepard… - Educational Leadership, 1986 - eric.ed.gov
... Record Details - EJ342574. Title: Synthesis of Research on School Readiness and Kindergarten
Retention. Full-Text Availability Options: ... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search.
Title: Synthesis of Research on School Readiness and Kindergarten Retention. ...
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Kindergarten predictors of mathematical growth in the primary grades: An investigation using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten cohort.

JC DiPerna, PW Lei… - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... ents, teachers, and other educational stakeholders have identified the promotion of student social
competence as an ... The first, general class- room competencies, includes social, motor, and
emerging mathe- matics and literacy ... More than one race, non-Hispanic 89 3 2 101 3 2 ...
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Babies and Robots: Technology to Assist Learning of Young Multiply Disabled Children.

MM Behrmann… - Rehabilitation Literature, 1984 - eric.ed.gov
EJ308319 - Babies and Robots: Technology to Assist
Learning of Young Multiply Disabled Children.
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Effectiveness of Kindergarten Scheduling.

BB McConnell… - Educational leadership, 1986 - eric.ed.gov
... Discusses the national trend toward full-day kindergarten scheduling and a 2-year experiment
involving alternate-day and half-day programs in Pasco, Washington. Early findings show no
significant differences in children's achievement, classroom study habits, or social skills. ...
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School Readiness: A Focus on Children, Families, Communities, and Schools. The Informed Educator Series.

R Pianta - 2002 - eric.ed.gov
... have such capabilities at school entry focuses on literacy and language, and social and self ...
Discussion of the impact on schools and classrooms on young children's competence focuses
on ... the right kinds of instruction to all children, customizing the kindergarten classroom, and ...
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The Social Context of Readiness.

RF Nelson - 1995 - eric.ed.gov
... 1,339 kindergarten teachers from a sample of 860 schools across the country who responded
to the "Public School Kindergarten Teachers' Views on Children's Readiness for School"
questionnaire. The results indicated that views of readiness were influenced by social context. ...
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The Role of Cultural Factors in School Relevant Cognitive Functioning: Description of Home Environmental Factors, Cultural Orientations, and Learning Preferences. …

AW Boykin… - 2000 - eric.ed.gov
ED441059 - The Role of Cultural Factors in School Relevant Cognitive
Functioning: Description of Home Environmental Factors, Cultural
Orientations, and Learning Preferences. Report No. 43.
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The Construction of School Knowledge: A Case Study.

J Nespor - Journal of Education, 1987 - eric.ed.gov
EJ369750 - The Construction of School Knowledge: A Case Study.
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Learning Disabled Students

LU deBettencourt… - … on learning problems in mathematics, 1993 - eric.ed.gov
... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. Title: Learning Disabled Students'
Understanding of Derived Fact Strategies in Addition and Subtraction. ... Source: Focus on Learning
Problems in Mathematics, v15 n4 p27-43 Fall 1993. More Info: Help Peer-Reviewed: N/A. ...
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Number sense growth in kindergarten: A longitudinal investigation of children at risk for mathematics difficulties

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NC Jordan, D Kaplan, L Nabors Oláh… - Child …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... Although competence in high-level math serves as a gateway to a myriad careers in ... ABAB patterns),
and this skill is sensitive to background variables, such as social class (Starkey ... Our low-income
participants were mainly African American and Latino children from urban areas. ...
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Field-Dependence/Field-Independence. Educational Implications for Bilingual Education.

EH Holtzman - 1979 - eric.ed.gov
... Pages: 64. Pub Types: Reports - Research; Opinion Papers. Abstract: An overview of cognitve
styles and research in the field of field dependence/field independence within the context of the
special needs of Hispanic students is presented. Various studies by Witkin et al. ...
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Getting a Good Start in School.

C Copple - 1997 - eric.ed.gov
... of Goal 1 and a look at the subjective nature of assessing learning readiness, the booklet briefly
discusses the following five dimensions that contribute to school preparedness: (1) health and
physical development; (2) emotional well-being and social competence, serving as the ...
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Minority Achievement and Parental Support: Academic Resocialization through Mentoring.

HT Trueba… - 1988 - eric.ed.gov
... classroom. Academic competencies include not only a high level of proficiency in
English, critical thinking skills, and the ability to control the relationship between
language and logic, but also social and cultural skills. Although ...
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Concerns and Expectations of Bangladeshi Parents as Their Children Start School.

P Sanagavarapu… - Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2005 - eric.ed.gov
... Pub Types: Journal Articles; Reports - Research. Abstract: This study aimed to examine views,
concerns and expectations of immigrant Bangladeshi parents and children in Sydney concerning
transition to kindergarten (the first year of school). ... Education Level: Kindergarten. ...
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Development of Psychosocial Maturity: A Review of Selected Effects of Schooling.

GR Adams - Urban Education, 1978 - eric.ed.gov
EJ191664 - Development of Psychosocial Maturity: A Review of Selected Effects of Schooling.
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Parental Roles in the Acquisition of Primary Level Skills: An Exploratory View on the Low-Income Hispanic-American Families with 3 and 4-Year Old Children.

A Zaman - Education, 2006 - eric.ed.gov
... that Hispanic children were the poorest and the fastest growing group who often did not receive
formal educational exposure due to varied socio-economic and ethno-contextual factors. Using
Primary Level Assessment Systems (pre-reading, pre-writing, pre-mathematical, and ...
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Social Competence Needs in Young Children: What the Research Says.

DF Tunstall - 1994 - eric.ed.gov
... Record Details - ED371879. Title: Social Competence Needs in Young Children: What the
Research Says. Full-Text Availability Options: ERIC Full Text (597K). ... Title: Social Competence
Needs in Young Children: What the Research Says. Authors: Tunstall, Dorothy F. ...
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The influence of demographic risk factors on children's behavioral regulation in prekindergarten and kindergarten

SB Wanless, MM McClelland… - Early Education and …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... The social competence of Latino kindergartners and growth in mathematical understanding .
Developmental Psychology , 46 , 579 – 592 . ... The social competence of Latino kindergartners
and growth in mathematical understanding . Developmental Psychology , 46 , 579 – 592 . ...
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Preparing the Way for Student Cognitive Development.

MP McMinn - Multicultural Education, 2001 - eric.ed.gov
EJ634011 - Preparing the Way for Student Cognitive Development.
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Learning from Latinos: contexts, families, and child development in motion.

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B Fuller… - Developmental Psychology, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
... the norms and behavioral scripts that ensure a motivating sense of competence and membership ...
The child's motivated learning and experience of social participation is now seen as learned
or ... But the Latino child, at times acculturating more rapidly than his parents, gains some ...
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Developing a Tuition-Based, Full-Day Kindergarten.

RW Lofthouse - Principal, 1994 - eric.ed.gov
... Record Details - EJ483346. Title: Developing a Tuition-Based, Full-Day Kindergarten. Full-Text
Availability Options: ... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. Title: Developing
a Tuition-Based, Full-Day Kindergarten. Authors: Lofthouse, Russell W. ...
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Cultural Variations, Cognitive Styles and Education in Latin America.

O Lennon - Prospects, 1988 - eric.ed.gov
... Record Details - EJ389819. Title: Cultural Variations, Cognitive Styles and Education in Latin
America. Full-Text Availability Options: ... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search.
Title: Cultural Variations, Cognitive Styles and Education in Latin America. ...
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The Leftouts; Disadvantaged Children in Heterogeneous Schools.

SA Warden - 1968 - eric.ed.gov
... Pages: 208. Pub Types: N/A. Abstract: This work by a social psychologist is concerned with the
consequences of the values, attitudes, and behavior of teachers and more advantaged peers
for the educational experience of disadvantaged youngsters in heterogeneous schools. ...
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Ecological contexts and early learning: Contributions of child, family, and classroom factors during Head Start, to literacy and mathematics growth through first grade

AH Hindman, LE Skibbe, A Miller… - Early Childhood Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
... Similarly, children's social competence has been cited by kindergarten teachers as the ... to
demonstrate higher achievement than their African-American and Hispanic/Latino peers ([Hughes ...
English speaker status), child skills such as language and social competence, and the ...
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The Reality of Experience.

G Ostrishko - 1997 - eric.ed.gov
... the principles of Reality Therapy and Choice Theory, which provide a practical foundation for
understanding and influencing ... Experiential education offers infinite opportunities for applying
and internalizing these principals for enhancing personal and professional growth. (TD). ...
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A Matter of Culture: The Educative Styles of Afro-American Children.

J Hale - 1980 - eric.ed.gov
ED197856 - A Matter of Culture: The Educative Styles of Afro-American Children.
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Age of Entry, Holding Out and Kindergarten Retention: Differences as a Function of Gender and Ethnicity.

M Cosden… - 1991 - eric.ed.gov
... enter kindergarten would vary as a function of their gender and ethnicity; (2) children who were
held out of kindergarten would be in the younger part of their cohort, and Anglo boys would be
held out more frequently than females or Latinos; (3) kindergarten retention would be ...
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Turning Ugly Ducklings into Swans: How Best to Educate for Cultural Environmental Differences.

M Meeker - Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1995 - eric.ed.gov
EJ501387 - Turning Ugly Ducklings into Swans: How Best to
Educate for Cultural Environmental Differences.
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Food insecurity affects school children's academic performance, weight gain, and social skills

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DF Jyoti, EA Frongillo… - The Journal of nutrition, 2005 - Am Soc Nutrition
... and teacher-reported social skills provide the best means of measuring social competence in
the ... however, to corroborate the potential association between food insecurity and better social
skills among ... increased risk of overweight among 8- to 16-y-old non-Hispanic white girls. ...
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The Knowledge Base of Kindergarten Education.

B Spodek - 1987 - eric.ed.gov
... Social learning in kindergarten is discussed in terms of research findings on the effects of positive
social reinforcement, nurturance, modeling, the need to set clear expectations for student behavior,
the assignment of personal attributes, peer group membership, and the need to ...
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A Sinking Feeling about Competition.

JJ Cirasuolo - School Administrator, 2001 - eric.ed.gov
EJ627855 - A Sinking Feeling about Competition.
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Inferring Cultural Learning Styles--Puerto Ricans in the US

T Milburn - 2000 - eric.ed.gov
ED448492 - Inferring Cultural Learning Styles--Puerto Ricans in the US.
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" Cognitive Style" and School Failure.

KM Anderson - 1977 - eric.ed.gov
... The conclusions are that cognitive performance is inextricably related to the social and cultural
tradition which produced it, but cannot be directly correlated with cognitive style until further
research is done on other variables such as social status, students' fear in test situations ...
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Otitis Media in Early Childhood and Its Relationship to Later Speech and Language.

JE Roberts - 1986 - eric.ed.gov
ED312801 - Otitis Media in Early Childhood and Its Relationship to Later Speech and Language.
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Cognition and Context: Concerns for the Culturally Different Student.

SD Roueche - Community College Review, 1979 - eric.ed.gov
EJ209917 - Cognition and Context: Concerns for the Culturally Different Student.
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Disadvantaged Children and Their First School Experiences. ETS-Head Start Longitudinal Study: Development of Self-Regulatory Behaviors.

WC Ward - 1973 - eric.ed.gov
ED079414 - Disadvantaged Children and Their First School Experiences. ETS-Head Start
Longitudinal Study: Development of Self-Regulatory Behaviors.
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Developmentally appropriate practice is for everyone

R Charlesworth - Childhood Education, 1998 - freepatentsonline.com
... Latino children's construction of arithmetic understanding in urban classrooms that support ...
Academic competence, social skills, and behavior among disadvantaged children in
developmentally ... and household composition as predictors of children's school-based competence. ...
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Special Needs of Hispanic Business Students: Teaching Methodologies to Develop Social Skills.

RJM Munoz - 1981 - eric.ed.gov
... Title: Special Needs of Hispanic Business Students: Teaching Methodologies to Develop Social
Skills. Full-Text Availability Options: ... Title: Special Needs of Hispanic Business Students: Teaching
Methodologies to Develop Social Skills. Authors: Munoz, RoJean Madsen. ...
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A Unit on Interdependence for Three Year Olds.

ET Keach Jr - 1970 - eric.ed.gov
... It will also help to provide him with an opportunity to practice social behaviors so as to solve his
problems through democratic procedures. ... ISBN: N/A. ISSN: N/A. Audiences: N/A. Languages:
N/A. Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten. Direct Link: N/A. ...
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Compensatory Education for Preschoolers: A Non-Technical Report on the UWO Preschool Project. Research Bulletin No. 440.

MJ Wright - 1978 - eric.ed.gov
... Level: 1 - Available on microfiche. Institutions: University of Western Ontario, London. Dept. of
Psychology. Sponsors: Department of National Health and Welfare, Ottawa (Ontario).; Ontario
Ministry of Community and Social Services, Toronto. ISBN: N/A. ISSN: N/A. Audiences: N/A ...
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Latino children and families: development in cultural context

C GALINDO… - Developmental psychology, 2010 - cat.inist.fr
... Titre du document / Document title. The Social Competence of Latino Kindergartners and Growth
in Mathematical Understanding. Titre de regroupement. Latino children and families: development
in cultural context. Auteur(s) / Author(s). GALINDO Claudia (1) ; FULLER Bruce (2) ...

Family Income and Its Relation to Preschool Children

RS Mistry, JC Biesanz, LC Taylor… - Developmental …, 2004 - eric.ed.gov
... Cross-sectional mediational analyses indicated that for families living at the poverty threshold,
family processes fully mediated the effect of average income over the study period on social
behavior but only partially mediated its effect on cognitive-linguistic development. ...
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Peer Play Interactions and Readiness to Learn: A Protective Influence for African American Preschool Children From Low‐Income Households

RJ Bulotsky‐Shearer, PH Manz… - Child Development …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... Galindo, C., & Fuller, B. (2010). The social competence of Latino kindergartners and growth
in mathematical understanding. Developmental Psychology, 46, 579–592. Garcia Coll, C.,
Lamberty, G., Jenkins, R., McAdoo, HP, Crnic, K., Wasik, BH, et al. (1996). ...

Socialization to School: A Study of Low-Income and Minority Children in an Early Childhood Setting. Occasional Paper.

AJ Schwartz - 1987 - eric.ed.gov
... The school's pedagogy gave little attention to social outcomes such as cross-cultural and
interracial understanding; the assimilationist ideology of the school excluded pluralistic curricula;
and the "color-blind" universalism accepted in the school obscured the need for "affirmative ...
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Cognitive Style, Environment and School Achievement: A Cross-Cultural Study. Delta Research Monograph No. 1.

RK Harker - 1977 - eric.ed.gov
ED161983 - Cognitive Style, Environment and School Achievement: A
Cross-Cultural Study. Delta Research Monograph No. 1.
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A Unit on Social Control for Three-and Four-Year Olds.

ET Keach Jr - 1970 - eric.ed.gov
... (Author/AWW). Abstractor: N/A. Reference Count: 0. Note: N/A. Identifiers: Social Control. Record
Type: Non-Journal. Level: 1 - Available on microfiche. ... ISBN: N/A. ISSN: N/A. Audiences: N/A.
Languages: N/A. Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten. Direct Link ...
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Kindergarten Transitions. Teachers: 48% of Children Have Transition Problems. NCEDL Spotlights, No. 1.

R Pianta… - 1998 - eric.ed.gov
... The report ends with conclusions and implications of the study, including: (1) there is a poor fit
between the expectations of kindergarten teachers and the skills of kindergartners; (2) the nation
has a long way to go in ensuring that all children come to school ready to learn; and (3 ...
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Challenging Myths of the Deficit Perspective: Honoring Children

D Volk… - Young Children, 2005 - eric.ed.gov
... They present evidence for the importance of looking closely and respectfully at interactions
among children and families to better understand their many rich literacy resources, and
they share insights from their research with Latino kindergartners. ...
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Kindergarten Adjustment Difficulty: The Contribution of Children

L Nathanson, SE Rimm-Kaufman… - Early Education and …, 2009 - eric.ed.gov
... Record Details - EJ858321. Title: Kindergarten Adjustment Difficulty: The Contribution of Children's
Effortful Control and Parental Control. Full-Text Availability Options: ... Title: Kindergarten Adjustment
Difficulty: The Contribution of Children's Effortful Control and Parental Control. ...
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Cultural Misalignment and Emerging Paradigms. Insights on Educational Policy and Practice Number 24.

PC Duttweiler… - 1990 - eric.ed.gov
... in the culture of schooling. Disadvantaged African Americans, Native Americans,
and Latinos, in particular, historically have suffered from the cultural misalignment
of home, school, and community. The reform of educational ...
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Preliminary Development of a Kindergarten School Readiness Assessment for Latino Students

M Quirk, M Furlong, E Lilles, E Felix… - Journal of Applied School …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... Predicting children's competence in the early school years: A meta-analytic review. ... based
measurement probes alone do not assess the physical, behavioral, and social-emotional domains ...
end of Grade 2. Last, this study focuses primarily on a population of Latino students from ...
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Kindergarten Children

X Zhou, Y Wang, L Wang… - Early Child Development and Care, 2006 - eric.ed.gov
... Title: Kindergarten Children's Representation and Understanding of Written Number Symbols.
Full-Text Availability Options: ... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. Title:
Kindergarten Children's Representation and Understanding of Written Number Symbols. ...
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Counselors Speak Out.

RC Nelson - Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1974 - eric.ed.gov
EJ097670 - Counselors Speak Out.
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A Model of Home Learning Environment and Social Risk Factors in Relation to Children

MA Foster, R Lambert, M Abbott-Shim… - Early Childhood …, 2005 - eric.ed.gov
... Publication Date: 2005-0-00. Pages: 24. Pub Types: Journal Articles. Abstract: The quality of
the home environment is widely recognized as a strong contributor to young children's emergent
literacy and social competence and to their subsequent educational success. ...
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Developmental Minicourses.

S Miranda… - Journal of College Student Development, 1989 - eric.ed.gov
... for Behavior Disorders; The Social Competence of Latino Kindergartners and Growth
in Mathematical Understanding; Family and Cultural Influences on Low-Income Latino
Children's Adjustment; Designing Freshman Interest ...
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A Model of the Development of Concrete Operations: Synchrony or Decalage?.

E Schroeder… - 1985 - eric.ed.gov
ED260807 - A Model of the Development of Concrete Operations: Synchrony or Decalage?.
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Early Childhood Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 11, 1998. Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by US Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.

RW Riley - 1998 - eric.ed.gov
... Early childhood education programs bridge the gap between home and kindergarten and
play an important role in the learning process. ... Early childhood educators, care providers,
and parents must consider this growth when developing programs. ...
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Improving the Social Skills of Kindergarten Students in Their Multicultural Setting through a Peacemaking Program.

KM Leonard - 1995 - eric.ed.gov
... Title: Improving the Social Skills of Kindergarten Students in Their Multicultural Setting through
a Peacemaking Program. Full-Text Availability Options: ... Title: Improving the Social Skills of
Kindergarten Students in Their Multicultural Setting through a Peacemaking Program. ...
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School and home connections and children's kindergarten achievement gains: The mediating role of family involvement

C Galindo, SB Sheldon - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011 - Elsevier
... like class plays, book nights, or family math nights; fairs or social events planned to ... race was
identified as White non-Latino – the reference group, Black non-Latino, Latino of any ... Additional
controls were age at kindergarten entry (continuous), whether the student was a second ...
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The Effects of Viewing" Sesame Street" on Learning Styles and Readiness of Primary Children.

J Owens… - 1983 - eric.ed.gov
ED238541 - The Effects of Viewing "Sesame Street" on Learning
Styles and Readiness of Primary Children.
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A Unit on Continuity and Change for Three-and Four-Year-Olds.

ET Keach Jr - 1970 - eric.ed.gov
... Successful social behavior in the classroom community reaps benefits in all subject areas and,
hence, falls within the responsibility of the school as a whole. ... ISSN: N/A. Audiences: N/A.
Languages: N/A. Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten. Direct Link: N/A. ...
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Formal Schooling for 5 Year Olds in New Zealand.

C Thornley - 1996 - eric.ed.gov
... in which demands of the national curriculum are balanced with attention to emotional needs and
social development. The article begins with a brief description of New Zealand's "National
Curriculum Framework" and points out the need for teacher competence in incorporating ...
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Crossing the Cultural Boundary from Home to Kindergarten in Hong Kong: A Case Study of a Child

MS Lam - European Early Childhood Education Research …, 2009 - eric.ed.gov
... Record Details - EJ834194. Title: Crossing the Cultural Boundary from Home to Kindergarten
in Hong Kong: A Case Study of a Child's Strategic Actions. ... Title: Crossing the Cultural Boundary
from Home to Kindergarten in Hong Kong: A Case Study of a Child's Strategic Actions. ...
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The Consequences of Home Computers for Gender-Role Socialization: Defining a Theoretical Perspective.

NA Gripshover - 1984 - eric.ed.gov
... From this perspective, the patterns of interaction within a family contribute to reliance on particular
ways of organizing social reality. ... Identifiers: Bernstein (Basil); Social Interaction; Theoretical
Analysis. Record Type: Non-Journal. Level: 1 - Available on microfiche. Institutions: N/A. ...
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[PDF] “Getting Ready for School:” A preliminary evaluation of a parent-focused school readiness program

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KG Noble, H Duch, ME Darvique, A Grundleger… - needlab.cumc.columbia.edu
... School readiness, or the development of the cognitive, social, and emotional skills necessary ...
The present study sample consisted nearly entirely of disadvantaged Latino preschoolers and ...
about and discuss how to identify and discuss children's questions about Kindergarten. ...
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Mathematical Problem Solving Among Latina/o Kindergartners: An Analysis of Opportunities to Learn

EE Turner… - Journal of Latinos and Education, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... “Early schooling and social stratification”. ... In this study, we focus on low-income, Latina/o
kindergarten students' opportunities to solve and discuss mathematical problems. ... with the
persistent achievement gaps noted above, shows how critical it is to focus on Latina/o students. ...
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The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments: Lessons from research on successful children.

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AS Masten… - American psychologist, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
... Family processes and risk for externalizing behavior problems among African American and
Hispanic boys ... The early caregiver-child relationship and attention-deficit disorder with hyperactivity
in kindergarten: A prospective study ... Social competence as a developmental construct ...
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Short-term effects of grade retention on the growth rate of Woodcock–Johnson III broad math and reading scores

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W Wu, SG West… - Journal of school psychology, 2008 - Elsevier
... and LEP students fared worse following retention on reading and perceived competence, but
he ... to replicate this finding in a somewhat larger sample of Hispanic LEP students. ... Very little
research investigates whether children's social and behavioral adjustment in the classroom ...
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What Makes Students Engaged in Learning? A Time-Use Study of Within-and Between-Individual Predictors of Emotional Engagement in Low-Performing High …

S Park, SD Holloway, A Arendtsz… - Journal of Youth and …, 2011 - Springer
... prior achievement and engagement was mediated by a variety of task and social support variables ...
the sample (c00), and the coef- ficients of being a male (c01), being Latino (c02), being ... 9th grade
GPA (c04), person mean auton- omy(c05), person mean competence (c06), and ...

what is appropriate mathematics education for four-year-olds?

JS Lee… - Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2007 - ecr.sagepub.com
... instruction and carefully sequenced tasks, repetition, practice, as opposed to a child-oriented
approach that stresses social and emotional ... Hispanic 3 (20.0) 1 (6.7) ... in interest, 8) children's
individual differences in competence, 9) use of con- crete materials and computers, and 10 ...
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[BOOK] The Latino education crisis: The consequences of failed social policies

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PC Gándara… - 2009 - books.google.com
... [but] in many ways the United States is doing serious damage to the social and economic fabric
of both nations." Immigration and ... For exam- ple, in a national sample of America's kindergartners,
African Ameri- can, Latino, and Native American children were found to be ...
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Fine motor skills and mathematics achievement in East Asian American and European American kindergartners and first graders

Z Luo, PE Jose, CS Huntsinger… - British Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... The EUA sample included all children whose parents identified themselves as 'White,
non-Hispanic'. ... samples confirmed that EAA children had higher mathematics achievement at
kindergarten entry. However, the growth rates in mathematics were found to be equal under no ...
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School readiness among low-income, Latino children attending family childcare versus centre-based care

A Ansari… - 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... 25. Galindo, C. and Fuller, B. 2010. The social competence of Latino kindergarteners
and growth in mathematical understanding. Developmental Psychology , 46(3):
579–592. [CrossRef], [PubMed] View all references). Further ...
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Improving the Numerical Understanding of Children From Low‐Income Families

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RS Siegler - Child Development Perspectives, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... Start centers, slightly more than half of whom were African American and the rest predominantly
non-Hispanic Whites. ... Social class and racial influences on early mathematical thinking. ... Re-visiting
the competence/performance debate in the acquisition of the counting principles. ...
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[PDF] An examination of mathematics achievement and growth in a Midwestern urban school district: Implications for teachers and administrators

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RM Capraro, JR Young, CW Lewis… - … Urban Mathematics …, 2009 - aggiestem.tamu.edu
... For example, entry mastery is associated with the effects of different degrees of language
competence on the influence of ... Furthermore, educational policy reform may enhance the learning
opportunities of Hispanic students. ... Cultural reproduction and social reproduction. ...
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Prediction of children's academic competence from their effortful control, relationships, and classroom participation.

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C Valiente, K Lemery-Chalfant… - Journal of …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
... reported on an average of 12 children) reported on the teacher–child relationship, children's
social competence, and classroom participation. Children reported on their EC, the teacher–child
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