Author Description

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. Edited By Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.