@BOOK{NAP title = "Who Are These People?: A Guide for Child Care Professionals", abstract = "As children spend an increasing portion of their day outside the home, it has become even more important that they are consistently exposed to positive and productive experiences, especially during their formative years. High-quality care is no longer a plus\u2014it's a must. \nWith the goal of making daily caregiving easier and more enjoyable, the National Academies and the McCormick Tribune Foundation have partnered to produce this useful and informative booklet. Based on key findings described in two recent reports on early childhood development and education from the National Academies\u2014From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development and Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers\u2014it offers helpful suggestions and practical guidance to child care providers, educators, and even interested parents. \nConcentrating specifically on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, Who Are These People?: A Guide for Child Care Professionals provides information and inspiration to everyone who interacts with young children on a regular basis. \nCopies are available free of charge in English or Spanish. Get yours today by phoning Customer Service toll free at 1-800-624-6242.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10696/who-are-these-people-a-guide-for-child-care-professionals", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Willis D. Hawley and Timothy Ready", title = "Measuring Access to Learning Opportunities", isbn = "978-0-309-08897-8", abstract = "Since 1968 the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report (known as the E&S survey) has been used to gather information about possible disparities in access to learning opportunities and violations of students\u2019 civil rights. Thirty-five years after the initiation of the E&S survey, large disparities remain both in educational outcomes and in access to learning opportunities and resources. These disparities may reflect violations of students\u2019 civil rights, the failure of education policies and practices to provide students from all backgrounds with a similar educational experience, or both. They may also reflect the failure of schools to fully compensate for disparities and current differences in parents\u2019 education, income, and family structure.\n\nThe Committee on Improving Measures of Access to Equal Educational Opportunities concludes that the E&S survey continues to play an essential role in documenting these disparities and in providing information that is useful both in guiding efforts to protect students\u2019 civil rights and for informing educational policy and practice. The committee also concludes that the survey\u2019s usefulness and access to the survey data could be improved. \n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10673/measuring-access-to-learning-opportunities", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy: Letter Report", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10762/committee-on-performance-levels-for-adult-literacy-letter-report", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Colette Chabbott and Emerson J. Elliott", title = "Understanding Others, Educating Ourselves: Getting More from International Comparative Studies in Education", isbn = "978-0-309-08855-8", abstract = "Since 1988, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) at the (U.S.) National Research Council of the National Academies has engaged in activities designed to increase the rigor and sophistication of international comparative studies in education by encouraging synergies between large and smaller scale international comparative education research, to identify gaps in the existing research base, and to assist in communicating results to policy makers and the public. Under the current grant (1998-2002), funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, BICSE has sponsored public events and commissioned papers on the effects of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), the power of video technology in international education research, international perspectives on teacher quality, and advances in the methodology of cross-national surveys of education achievement. This report responds to a request from the board's sponsors under the current grant to produce a report that builds on its previous work.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10622/understanding-others-educating-ourselves-getting-more-from-international-comparative-studies", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Daniel L. Cork and Michael L. Cohen and Benjamin F. King", title = "Planning the 2010 Census: Second Interim Report", isbn = "978-0-309-08968-5", abstract = "The Panel on Research on Future Census Methods has a broad charge to review the early planning process for the 2010 census. Its work includes observing the operation of the 2000 census, deriving lessons for 2010, and advising on effective evaluations and tests. This is the panel's third report; they have previously issued an interim report offering suggestions on the Census Bureau's evaluation plan for 2000 and a letter report commenting on the bureau's proposed general structure for the 2010 census.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10776/planning-the-2010-census-second-interim-report", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Karen S. Hollweg and David Hill", title = "What Is the Influence of the National Science Education Standards?: Reviewing the Evidence, A Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-08743-8", abstract = "In 2001, with support from National Science Foundation, the National Research Council began a review of the evidence concerning whether or not the National Science Education Standards have had an impact on the science education enterprise to date, and if so, what that impact has been. This publication represents the second phase of a three-phase effort by the National Research Council to answer that broad and very important question.Phase I began in 1999 and was completed in 2001, with publication of Investigating the Influence of Standards: A Framework for Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (National Research Council, 2002). That report provided organizing principles for the design, conduct, and interpretation of research regarding the influence of national standards. The Framework developed in Phase I was used to structure the current review of research that is reported here.Phase II began in mid-2001, involved a thorough search and review of the research literature on the influence of the NSES, and concludes with this publication, which summarizes the proceedings of a workshop conducted on May 10, 2002, in Washington, DC.Phase III will provide input, collected in 2002, from science educators, administrators at all levels, and other practitioners and policy makers regarding their views of the NSES, the ways and extent to which the NSES are influencing their work and the systems that support science education, and what next steps are needed.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10618/what-is-the-influence-of-the-national-science-education-standards", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Maryanne Loughry and Carola Eyber", title = "Psychosocial Concepts in Humanitarian Work with Children: A Review of the Concepts and Related Literature", isbn = "978-0-309-08933-3", abstract = "This report is concerned with reviewing psychosocial concepts in research related to humanitarian work, with particular emphasis on research related to children affected by prolonged violence and armed conflict.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10698/psychosocial-concepts-in-humanitarian-work-with-children-a-review-of", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Ronald Breiger and Kathleen Carley and Philippa Pattison", title = "Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers", isbn = "978-0-309-08952-4", abstract = "In the summer of 2002, the Office of Naval Research asked the Committee on Human Factors to hold a workshop on dynamic social network and analysis. The primary purpose of the workshop was to bring together scientists who represent a diversity of views and approaches to share their insights, commentary, and critiques on the developing body of social network analysis research and application. The secondary purpose was to provide sound models and applications for current problems of national importance, with a particular focus on national security. This workshop is one of several activities undertaken by the National Research Council that bears on the contributions of various scientific disciplines to understanding and defending against terrorism. The presentations were grouped in four sessions \u2013 Social Network Theory Perspectives, Dynamic Social Networks, Metrics and Models, and Networked Worlds \u2013 each of which concluded with a discussant-led roundtable discussion among the presenters and workshop attendees on the themes and issues raised in the session. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10735/dynamic-social-network-modeling-and-analysis-workshop-summary-and-papers", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "M. S. Donovan and A. K. Wigdor and C. E. Snow", title = "Strategic Education Research Partnership", isbn = "978-0-309-08879-4", abstract = "Envision a cadre of leading scientists and practitioners working collaboratively on a highly focused program of education research that is tightly coupled with practice. Much of the research is carried out in school settings. Research influences educational practice, and the outcomes in practice inform further research efforts.\n \nThe Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) is designed to make this vision a reality. It proposes a large-scale, coherent program of research and development that would put the problems of educational practice at its center, and focus on all stages necessary to influence practice. These include theory testing, the development and evaluation of instructional programs, the study of practice in context, and attention to taking innovations to scale.\n\nThis book explains the features of SERP and the ways in which it would address the major challenges of linking research and practice. It is a call to mobilize the nation\u2019s resources and political will, the power of scientific research, and the expertise of our educators, to create a more effective research and development program for improving student learning.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10670/strategic-education-research-partnership", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Roy Pea and William A. Wulf and Stuart W. Elliott and Martha A. Darling", title = "Planning for Two Transformations in Education and Learning Technology: Report of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-08954-8", abstract = "In response to concerns about the continued unrealized potential of IT in K-12 education, the National Research Council\u2019s Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Education (CFE), Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS), and Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) undertook a collaborative project to help the IT, education research, and practitioner communities work together to find ways of improving the use of IT in K-12 education for the benefit of all students.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10789/planning-for-two-transformations-in-education-and-learning-technology-report", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council and Institute of Medicine", editor = "Eugene Smolensky and Jennifer Appleton Gootman", title = "Working Families and Growing Kids: Caring for Children and Adolescents", isbn = "978-0-309-08703-2", abstract = "An informative mix of data and discussion, this book presents conclusions and recommendations for policies that can respond to the new conditions shaping America's working families. Among the family and work trends reviewed:\n\n Growing population of mothers with young children in the workforce.\n Increasing reliance of nonparental child care.\n Growing challenges of families on welfare.\n Increased understanding of child and adolescent development.\n\nIncluded in this comprehensive review of the research and data on family leave, child care, and income support issues are: the effects of early child care and school age child care on child development, the impacts of family work policies on child and adolescent well-being and family functioning, the impacts of family work policies on child and adolescent well-being and family functioning the changes to federal and state welfare policy, the emergence of a 24\/7 economy, the utilization of paid family leave, and an examination of the ways parental employment affects children as they make their way through childhood and adolescence.\nThe book also evaluates the support systems available to working families, including family and medical leave, child care options, and tax policies. The committee's conclusions and recommendations will be of interest to anyone concerned with issues affecting the working American family, especially policy makers, program administrators, social scientists, journalist, private and public sector leaders, and family advocates.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10669/working-families-and-growing-kids-caring-for-children-and-adolescents", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }