Does higher quality early child care promote low-income children's math and reading achievement in middle childhood?

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1329-1349

  Dearing, Eric ^a   McCartney, Kathleen ^b   Taylor, Beck A ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^c SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD;

ACHIEVEMENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; READING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 70349207124     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01336.x     Document Type: Article

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