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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, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 335 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Penn State University family issues symposia series
Penn State University family issues symposia series.
Bibliography 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 [and others] -- 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 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Readiness for school -- United States.
Readiness for school.
United States.
Child development -- United States.
Child development.
EDUCATION -- Preschool & Kindergarten.
Added Author Booth, Alan, 1935-2015.
Crouter, Ann C.
Other Form: Print version: Disparities in school readiness. New York : Lawrence Erlbaum, ©2008 9780805859812 (DLC) 2007014909 (OCoLC)123390929
ISBN 9781410618658 (electronic book)
141061865X (electronic book)
9781136677472
113667747X
9780203809754 (e-book ; PDF)
0203809750
9781136677427 (e-book ; Mobi)
1136677429
9781136677465 (e-book ; ePub)
1136677461
9780805859812 (alkaline paper)
0805859810 (alkaline paper)
0805864350
9780805864359