Disparities in school readiness  how families contribute to transitions into school / 
edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter. 
 - New York :  Lawrence Erlbaum,  (c)2008. 
 - xiii, 335 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Being unready for school : factors affecting risk and resilience /  In search of meaning : disentangling the complex influences on children's school readiness /  Explaining the gap in school readiness /  Farkas and Hibel, and a transactional ecological model of readiness and inequality /  Reply to Lopez and Barrueco /  Family processes that support school readiness : specific behaviors and contextual conditions that set this process in motion /  Study of the effects of parenting on aspects of brain growth and development relevant to school readiness : a work in progress /  Genetic source of reading disability and a proposal to use NLSY-Children to study --  Genetic and environmental influences on reading disability /  Proximal processes in school readiness /  The context of school readiness : social class difference in time use in family life /  Cultural versus social class contexts for extra-curricular activity participation /  Linking social class to concerted cultivation, natural growth and school readiness /  Organized activity participation for children from low- and middle-income families /  Child characteristics and family processes that predict behavioral readiness for school /  Using developmental evidence on behavioral School readiness to inform prevention and policy /  Behavioral unreadiness for school : issues and interventions /  Using family-focused interventions to promote child behavioral readiness for school /  Processes and factors influencing family contributions to school readiness /  George Farkas and Jacob Hibel --  Michael Lopez and Sandra Barrueco --  Jane McLeod --  Lynne Vernon-Feagans, Erica Odom, Nadya Pancsofar, and Kirsten Kainz --  George Farkas and Jacob Hibel --  Susan Landry and Karen Smith --  Clancy Blair --  Guang Guo and Jonathan Daw --  Kyle Snow --  Annette Lareau and Elliot Weininger --  Diane Hughes --  Sandra Hofferth --  Joseph Mahoney and Jacquelynne Eccles --  Susan Campbell and Camilla von Stauffenberg --  Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Erin Brooke Godfrey --  Ray DeV. Peters and Diana Ridgeway --  Karen Bierman, Robert Nix, and Kerry Makin-Byrd --  Rebecca Sanford DeRousie and Rachel Durham. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781410618658 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Readiness for school--United States.<br/>Child development--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1132  / .D577 2008