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American Indian and Alaska Native Children: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies Program
By Jennifer Park, National Center for Educational Statistics
January 24, 2007

Summary: This Microsoft PowerPoint presentation from the 2007 Interagency Task Force on Indian Education (ITFIE) Early Childhood Education Meeting presents an overview of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) and describes how the educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children can be studied with data from the ECLS. Despite increased risk for developmental disadvantage, the ECLS-B (birth through kindergarten entry) shows AIAN children (aged 9 months) perform no differently than their peers in terms of their early cognitive and physical skills. Slight cognitive disadvantage seen at two years is not significant. By age five or six years, information from the ECLS-K (kindergarten entry through eighth grade) suggests large differences in children’s cognitive (not physical) knowledge and skills. Design considerations for a new ECLS are indicated.

Index Terms: Alaska Natives, Demographics, Early Childhood Education, Native Americans, Tribal Child Care, Child Development, Research, Surveys, American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN), Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), Interagency Task Force on Indian Education, Kentucky

Publication Type: Visual Aids

Pages: 9 pages
Language: English

Availability
National Center for Educational Statistics
1990 K Street NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20006
202-502-7300
http://nces.ed.gov/

 
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