Disparities in school readiness
Subtitle: how families contribute to transitions into school
By: edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter.
Contributors: Booth, Alan, 1935-; Crouter, Ann C.
Series: The Penn State University family issues symposia series
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780805859812; 9780805864359
Subjects: Readiness for school -- United States; Child development -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Being unready for school : factors affecting risk and resilience / George Farkas and Jacob Hibel; title: In search of meaning : disentangling the complex influences on children's school readiness / Michael Lopez and Sandra Barrueco; title: Explaining the gap in school readiness / Jane McLeod; title: Farkas and Hibel, and a transactional ecological model of readiness and inequality / Lynne Vernon-Feagans, Erica Odom, Nadya Pancsofar, and Kirsten Kainz; title: Reply to Lopez and Barrueco / George Farkas and Jacob Hibel; title: Family processes that support school readiness : specific behaviors and contextual conditions that set this process in motion / Susan Landry and Karen Smith; title: Study of the effects of parenting on aspects of brain growth and development relevant to school readiness : a work in progress / Clancy Blair; title: Genetic source of reading disability and a proposal to use NLSY-Children to study; title: Genetic and environmental influences on reading disability / Guang Guo and Jonathan Daw; title: Proximal processes in school readiness / Kyle Snow; title: The context of school readiness : social class difference in time use in family life / Annette Lareau and Elliot Weininger; title: Cultural versus social class contexts for extra-curricular activity participation / Diane Hughes; title: Linking social class to concerted cultivation, natural growth and school readiness / Sandra Hofferth; title: Organized activity participation for children from low- and middle-income families / Joseph Mahoney and Jacquelynne Eccles; title: Child characteristics and family processes that predict behavioral readiness for school / Susan Campbell and Camilla von Stauffenberg; title: Using developmental evidence on behavioral School readiness to inform prevention and policy / Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Erin Brooke Godfrey; title: Behavioral unreadiness for school : issues and interventions / Ray DeV. Peters and Diana Ridgeway; title: Using family-focused interventions to promote child behavioral readiness for school / Karen Bierman, Robert Nix, and Kerry Makin-Byrd; title: Processes and factors influencing family contributions to school readiness / Rebecca Sanford DeRousie and Rachel Durham.