Volume 52, Issue 2 (2006)
Articles
Bridging Campus to Community
in the Lives of Urban Children and Youth:
Introduction to the Special Issue
Hilary Horn Ratner and Gail Brumitt
Meeting Children’s Needs:
How Does the United States Measure Up?
S. Jody Heymann, Kate Penrose, and Alison Earle
Language, School Functioning, and Behavior
Among African American Urban Kindergartners
Margo Bowman, Douglas Barnett, Alex Johnson, and Kirsti Reeve
Effects of Home and School Computer Use
on School Readiness and Cognitive Development
Among Head Start Children: A Randomized
Controlled Pilot Trial
Xiaoming Li, Melissa S. Atkins, and Bonita Stanton
Violence Exposure, IQ, Academic Performance,
and Children’s Perception of Safety:
Evidence of Protective Effects
Hilary Horn Ratner, Lisa Chiodo, Chandice Covington, Robert J. Sokol, Joel Ager, and Virginia Delaney-Black
Gaining Options: A Mathematics Program
for Potentially Talented At-risk Adolescent Girls
Pamela Trotman Reid and Sally K. Roberts
Predictors of Early Substance Use
Among African American and Caucasian Youth
From Urban and Suburban Communities
Antonia Abbey, Angela J. Jacques, Lenwood W. Hayman Jr., and Joanne Sobeck
Predictors of Arab American
Adolescent Tobacco Use
Virginia Hill Rice, Linda S. Weglicki, Thomas Templin, Adnan Hammad, Hikmet Jamil, and Anahid Kulwicki
How Can Basic Research on Children
and Families Be Useful for the Policy Process?
Kristin Anderson Moore
Open Access Article
Consulting Editors
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly Editors
