Disparities in school readiness : how families contribute to transitions into school / edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter.

Other author Booth, Alan, 1935-2015
Other author Crouter, Ann C.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Lawrence Erlbaum, ©2008.
Descriptionxiii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesThe Penn State University family issues symposia series
Penn State University family issues symposia series. ^A589029
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 -- The 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2007014909
ISBN9780805859812 (alk. paper)
ISBN0805859810 (alk. paper)
ISBN0805864350
ISBN9780805864359

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Joyner General Stacks LB1132 .D57 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold