TY - JOUR
AB - editorial advisory board Samuel Ball, Ph.D., Educational Testing Service Robert Bookman, Director, DCCDCA's Na- "Success at School Predicted...at Birth" is the bold tional Family Day Care Program, Wash- headline on a newsletter received here.* The article describes ington, D.C. a study made to see whether a child's chances for success in Eli M. Bower, Ed.D., University of California, Berkley school can be predicted on the basis of information routine- Virginia Burke, Day Care Coordinator, Na- ly recorded on his or her birth certificate. tional Institutes of Health " In one part of the study, researchers used four measures Bettye M. Caidwell, Ph.D'., University of Arkansas to identify those first-graders considered to be at "severe" Howard Clifford, Consultant on Day Care, risk of failure. Analysis then showed that such children Health and Welfare, Canada were more likely to be Black, born later than their brothers Ralph W. Colvln, Ph.D., Director, National and sisters, somewhat underweight at birth, and illegiti- Leadership Project in Early Education and Child Development mate; to have mothers who were undereducated and began Maria Cuadrado, M.S.W., Research Analyst, their prenatal care late in pregnancy; to have a brother or The City University of New York sister who 
TI - Editorial
JF - Early Childhood Education Journal
DO - 10.1007/BF02353585
DA - 2006-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/editorial-mfprYRxLeq
SP - 2
EP - 2
VL - 5
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -