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"Preparing Early Childhood Teachers to Successfully Educate All Children:
Aisha Ray, Barbara Bowman, and Jean Robbins
June 2006
This work examines diversity content in professional standards and policies established by both state boards of higher education responsible for early childhood teacher certification, and national accreditation organizations.
"Preparing Early Childhood Teachers to Successfully Educate All Children:
Aisha Ray, Barbara Bowman, and Jean Robbins
April 2006
This work examines teacher education curricula in 4-year institutions of higher education across the nation.
"Accountability in Early Childhood: No Easy Answers"
Samuel J. Meisels
March 2006
In this paper, Meisels examines the genesis of accountability testing in preschool and refutes the quality-assurance, production-model assumptions that underlie its use with young children.
Note: This article appears as a chapter in the book School Readiness, Early Learning, and the Transition to Kindergarten by Robert Pianta (Brookes Publishing, 2007).
Critical Issues in After-School Programming
Monograph by Robert Halpern
2006
Four papers explore the role of after-school programs in supporting literacy development; their effectiveness at fostering children’s physical well-being; the challenge of system building; and the question of appropriate expectations for such programs.
"Relationship-based Systems Change: Illinois' Model for Promoting Social-Emotional Development in Part C Early Intervention"
Linda Gilkerson and Carolyn Cochran Kopel
October 2004
This report describes the rationale, philosophy, and implementation of a relationship-based model for promoting social-emotional development in Part C early intervention.
"Parent support and education: Past history, future projects"
Robert Halpern and Jon Korfmacher
October 2004
A review of the positive and negative effects of parent support and education programs asks, "Are these programs worth doing?"
Proceedings of the Conference, "Field of Early Childhood Education Professional Development: Implications for Teaching, Research and Policy"
Barbara T. Bowman and Aisha Ray
June 2004
"Arts integration in the classroom: Reflections on theory and application"
Dan Scheinfeld
March 2004
Should arts be taught for their own sake, or do they have a direct, measurable effect on performance in other subjects?
"Assessment in the early childhood classroom"
Suzanne Wagner
October 2003
Norm-referenced, standardized tests be used to improve curriculum and instruction, but troubling questions remain.
"Thinking About Play in the Early Childhood Classroom"
Joan Brooks McLane
September 2003
This multiyear study explores how play relates to children's learning, development, and literacy.
"Unmet Needs Project: A Research, Coalition Building, and Policy Initiative on the Unmet Needs of Infants, Toddlers, and Families"
By Linda Gilkerson and Ann Cutler
May 2002
Collaborator: University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Disability and Human Development
"Child Assessment at the Preprimary Level: Expert Opinion and State Trends"
Carol Horton and Barbara T. Bowman
January 2002
There are both encouraging similarities and troubling gaps between expert opinions on methods of prekindergarden assessment and actual public practice.
"Project Match"
Suzanne L. Wagner and
July 2001
"Harder Than You Think: Determining What Works in Early Childhood Interventions"
Jon Korfmacher
July 2001
When examining the results of intervention with young mothers, policymakers who ask "What works?" may be missing a more fruitful, if more complicated, line of inquiry.
"Father Care"
Caria Zvetina
October 2000
Fathers have increasingly become a focus of research, program intervention, and public policy analysis.
"After-School Programs"
January 1999
This report describes nationwide research and Chicago-area after-school programs.