Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life : A Human Capital Integration (Hardcover)

Remarks: the essential role of youth development Robert H. Bruininks; 1. Early childhood development and human capital Arthur J. Reynolds, Arthur J. Rolnick, Michelle M. Englund and Judy A. Temple; Part I. Prenatal and Infant Programs: 2. WIC turns 35: program effectiveness and future directions Barbara Devaney; 3. The nurse-family partnership: from trials to practice David L. Olds; 4. Carolina Abecedarian Project Frances A. Campbell and Craig T. Ramey; 5. Early Head Start impacts at age 3 and a description of the age 5 follow-up study Helen H. Raikes, Rachel Chazan-Cohen, John M. Love and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Part II. Preschool Education: 6. Project Head Start: quality and links to child outcomes Gary Resnick; 7. How to take the HighScope Perry Preschool to scale Lawrence J. Schweinhart; 8. Impacts and implications of the Child-Parent Center Preschool Arthur J. Reynolds, Judy A. Temple and Suh-Ruu Ou; 9. Small miracles in Tulsa: the effects of universal pre-k on cognitive development William T. Gormley, Jr; 10. Lessons from the evaluation of the Great Start Readiness Program: a longitudinal evaluation Marijata Daniel-Echols, Elena V. Malofeeva and Lawrence Schweinhart; 11. Abbott Preschool Program Longitudinal Effects Study (APPLES) year one findings Ellen Frede, W. Steven Barnett, Kwanghee Jung, Cynthia Esposito Lamy and Alexandra Figueras; Remarks: are we promising too much for preschool education programs? Edward Zigler; Part III. Kindergarten and Early School Age Services: 12. School readiness and the reading achievement gap: can full-day kindergarten level the playing field? Vi-Nhuan Le, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Heather Barney, Claude Messan Setodji and Daniel Gershwin; 13. Small classes in the early grades: one policy, multiple outcomes Jeremy D. Finn, Allison E. Suriani and Charles M. Achilles; 14. Opportunity in early education: improving teacher-child interactions and child outcomes Andrew J. Mashburn and Robert C. Pianta; Part IV. Economic Syntheses of Early Childhood Investments: Remarks at the Early Childhood Research Collaborative Conference Gary H. Stern: 15. The cost effectiveness of public investment in high-quality prekindergarten: a state level synthesis Robert G. Lynch; 16. The fiscal returns to public educational investments in African American males Clive Belfield and Henry Levin; 17. A new cost-benefit and rate of return analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: a summary James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Savelyev and Adam Yavitz; 18. Investing in our young people Flavio Cunha and James Heckman; 19. Paths of effects of preschool participation to educational attainment at age 20: a study of the Child-Parent Centers, High/Scope Perry Preschool, and Abecedarian Project Arthur J. Reynolds, Michelle M. Englund, Suh-Ruu Ou, Lawrence J. Schweinhart and Frances Campbell; Appendix: question and answer sessions.