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Disparities in school readiness : how families contribute to transitions into school
    Booth, Alan, 1935-
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum,
Pub date: c2008.
Pages: xiii, 335 p. :
ISBN: 0805864350
Copy info: 1 copy available in CIRC1.
1 copy total in all locations. 
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ISBN: 0805864350
ISBN: 9780805864359
ISBN: 9780805859812 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0805859810 (pbk.)
LC call number: LB1132 .D57 2008
Title: Disparities in school readiness : how families contribute to transitions into school / edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter.
Publication info: New York : Lawrence Erlbaum, c2008.
Physical description: xiii, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: (The Penn State University family issues symposia series)
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: Being unready for school : factors affecting risk and resilience / George Farkas and Jacob Hibel -- In search of meaning : disentangling the complex influences on children's school readiness / Michael Lopez and Sandra Barrueco -- Explaining the gap in school readiness / Jane McLeod -- Farkas and Hibel, and a transactional ecological model of readiness and inequality / Lynne Vernon-Feagans, Erica Odom, Nadya Pancsofar, and Kirsten Kainz -- Reply to Lopez and Barrueco / George Farkas and Jacob Hibel -- Family processes that support school readiness : specific behaviors and contextual conditions that set this process in motion / Susan Landry and Karen Smith -- Study of the effects of parenting on aspects of brain growth and development relevant to school readiness : a work in progress / Clancy Blair -- Genetic source of reading disability and a proposal to use NLSY-Children to study -- Genetic and environmental influences on reading disability / Guang Guo and Jonathan Daw -- Proximal processes in school readiness / Kyle Snow -- Context of school readiness : social class difference in time use in family life / Annette Lareau and Elliot Weininger -- Cultural versus social class contexts for extra-curricular activity participation / Diane Hughes -- Linking social class to concerted cultivation, natural growth and school readiness / Sandra Hofferth -- Organized activity participation for children from low- and middle-income families / Joseph Mahoney and Jacquelynne Eccles -- Child characteristics and family processes that predict behavioral readiness for school / Susan Campbell and Camilla von Stauffenberg -- Using developmental evidence on behavioral School readiness to inform prevention and policy / Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Erin Brooke Godfrey -- Behavioral unreadiness for school : issues and interventions / Ray DeV. Peters and Diana Ridgeway -- Using family-focused interventions to promote child behavioral readiness for school / Karen Bierman, Robert Nix, and Kerry Makin-Byrd -- Processes and factors influencing family contributions to school readiness / Rebecca Sanford DeRousie and Rachel Durham.
Subject: Readiness for school--United States.
Subject: Child development--United States.
Personal author: Booth, Alan, 1935-
Personal author: Crouter, Ann C.
Electronic access: Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007014909.html
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