Disparities in school readiness [electronic resource] : how families contribute to transitions into school / edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Being unready for school : factors affecting risk and resilience / George Farkas and Jacob Hibel -- 2. In search of meaning : disentangling the complex influences on children's school readiness / Michael Lopez and Sandra Barrueco -- 3. Explaining the gap in school readiness / Jane McLeod -- 4. Farkas and Hibel, and a transactional/ecological model of readiness and inequality / Lynne Vernon-Feagans ... [et al.] -- 5. Reply to Lopez and Barrueco / George Farkas and Jacob Hibel -- 6. Family processes that support school readiness : specific behaviors and contextual conditions that set this process in motion / Susan Landry and Karen Smith -- 7. Study of the effects of parenting on aspects of brain growth and development relevant to school readiness : a work in progress / Clancy Blair -- 8. Genetic source of reading disability and a proposal to use NLSY-children to study genetic and environmental influences on reading disability / Guang Guo and Jonathan Daw -- 9. Proximal processes in school readiness / Kyle Snow -- 10. The context of school readiness : social class difference in time use in family life / Annette Lareau and Elliot Weininger -- 11. Cultural versus social class contexts for extra-curricular activity participation / Diane Hughes -- 12. Linking social class to concerted cultivation, natural growth and school readiness / Sandra Hofferth -- 13. Organized activity participation for children from low- and middle-income families / Joseph Mahoney and Jacquelynne Eccles -- 14. Child characteristics and family processes that predict behavioral readiness for school / Susan Campbell and Camilla von Stauffenberg -- 15. Using developmental evidence on behavioral school readiness to inform prevention and policy / Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Erin Brooke Godfrey -- 16. Behavioral unreadiness for school : issues and interventions / Ray DeV. Peters and Diana Ridgeway -- 17. Using family-focused interventions to promote child behavioral readiness for school / Karen Bierman, Robert Nix, and Kerry Makin-Byrd -- 18. Processes and factors influencing family contributions to school readiness / Rebecca Sanford DeRousie and Rachel Durham.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.