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Download full textZaslow, Martha J., Ed.; Eldred, Carolyn A., Ed. – 1998
This study examines parenting in 290 of the 2,322 families studied in the New Chance Demonstration, a national research and demonstration program operated between 1989 and 1992 in 10 states. The demonstration project sought to improve the economic prospects and overall well-being of low-income young mothers (ages 16 to 22) and their children…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Child Rearing, Demonstration Programs
Orfield, Gary, Ed.; DeBray, Elizabeth H., Ed. – 1999
This collection of papers examines how to gain more from Title I's goal of improving educational opportunity for poor children, offering evidence about educational gains and underscoring the civil rights implications of this legislation. In preparing for the 1999 reauthorization of Title I, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Civil Rights, Educational Change
Direct linkWeisner, Thomas S., Ed. – University of Chicago Press, 2005
"Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development" provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Family Life, Qualitative Research
