Early Child Development in the 21st Century :

Twenty-eight studies are profiled, addressing such issues as early childhood interventions for children in poverty, neighbourhood characteristics and residence patterns of children and their families, the role of fathers in families, school readiness and the transition to school, and maternal employment issues including child care and welfare reform.

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University Allison Sidle Fuligni is a Research Scientist at the UCLA Center for the Improvement of Child Care Quality Lisa J. Berlin is a Research Scholar at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University

List of Research Initiatives

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Themes in Developmental Research: Historical Roots and Promise for the Future

1

(15)

Allison Sidle Fuligni

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Lisa J. Berlin

The Profiles Project

16

(49)

Allison Sidle Fuligni

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Early Childhood Intervention Research Initiatives

65

(25)

Lisa J. Berlin

Colleen R. O'Neal

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Initiatives on the Transition to School

90

(25)

Allison Sidle Fuligni

Christy Brady-Smith

Family Support Initiatives

115

(30)

Allison Sidle Fuligni

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Pre- and Perinatal Home Visitation Interventions

145

(18)

Lisa McCabe

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Child Welfare and Mental Health Initiatives

163

(18)

Janis Kupersmidt

Lisa McCabe

Donna Bryant

Early Child Care Initiatives

181

(44)

Part I: NICHD Study of Early Child Care

182

(19)

NICHD Early Child Care Research Network

Part II: Three Early Child Care Initiatives

201

(24)

Phyllis Gyamfi

Natasha Cabrera

Jodie Roth

Welfare-to-Work Initiatives

225

(54)

Christy Brady-Smith

Martha Zaslow

Tama Leventhal

Greg Duncan

Kerry Richter

Neighborhood-Based Initiatives

279

(17)

Tama Leventhal

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Initiatives on Children with Special Needs

296

(30)

Kathleen Hebbeler

Donna Spiker

Four New National Longitudinal Surveys on Children

326

(34)

Allison Sidle Fuligni

Lisa McCabe

Sara McLanahan

Jodie Roth

Synthesis: Issues and Imperatives in Research on Early Childhood Development

360

(9)

Allison Sidle Fuligni

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

References

369

(34)

About the Editors and the Contributors

403

(8)

Index

411

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Early Child Development in the 21st Century : Profiles of Current Research Initiatives

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