Rural
Disparities in ECLS Baseline Data Now Available
in Chartbook
FEB. 28, 2006 | A report showing rural
disparities in the baseline data of the Birth
and Kindergarten Cohorts of the national Early
Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) is now
available.
The report, Rural Disparities in Baseline
Data of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study:
A Chartbook, is by Cathy Grace, Ed.D.,
Elizabeth F. Shores, M.A.P.H., Martha Zaslow,
Ph.D., Brett Brown, Ph.D., Dena Aufseeser, and
Lynn Bell. Download it
here.
The National
Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning
Initiatives, known as
Rural Early
Childhood, commissioned
Child
Trends to perform the analysis of key
indicators of child well-being and early
childhood services. Child Trends is a
nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization
based in Washington, D.C.
ECLS is a longitudinal study, by the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES), of two
nationally representative samples of children,
referred to as the Birth Cohort and Kindergarten
Cohort. A program of the U.S. Department of
Education, NCES makes the raw data collected in
the study available to researchers who examine
it in various ways. The study by Rural Early
Childhood and Child Trends is the first to
analyze the ECLS baseline data according to
rurality.
The chartbook contains a discussion of key
findings related to child care use, early
literacy skills, and mental health. It also
contains sets of tables showing rural and
non-rural rates for dozens of indicators, as
well as rates within the rural and non-rural
sub-groups by ethnicity, income range, and
geographic region.
A program of
the Mississippi State University Early Childhood
Institute, Rural Early Childhood earlier
released several
briefs
concerning its analysis of the ECLS baseline
data. The program is sponsoring similar
analyses, still underway, of other national
datasets. The program’s primary support is from
the U.S. Department of Education.
Child Trends is dedicated to improving the lives
of children by conducting research and providing
science-based information to improve the
decisions, programs, and policies that affect
children and their families. In advancing its
mission, Child Trends collects and analyzes
data; conducts, synthesizes, and disseminates
research; designs and evaluates programs; and
develops and tests promising approaches to
research in the field.
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