A follow-up to the successful ""Transition to Kindergarten (1999)"", this book offers a discussion of transition in the context of modern educational arena, reflecting policy changing practices, and different program approaches. It also addresses pertinent community influences in early education demographic changes, racial and cultural influences.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the kindergarten transition period and examines this knowledge in terms of its implications for pressing policy, practice, training, and research issues for the next decade. Readers will understand what has changed in terms of early education policy and implementation. These changes include assessment and program opportunities (NCLB, Head Start Outcomes Framework); critical issues in the preschool to grade 3 years, such as health, emotional and attention regulation, and child functioning. This volume also addresses pertinent community influences in early education demographic changes, racial and cultural influences, and the roles of fathers in the transition process. This volume focuses on the individual child's development and background rather than on groups of children (at risk, with disabilities, from low-income families).

Private Jack MacAlpin hat böse Träume, die ihn Tag und Nacht verfolgen. Als er im Rückspiegel seines Autos ein grauenvolles Gesicht erblickt, fährt er in seiner Panik gegen einen Baum und ist auf der Stelle tot. Doch er kommt wieder: Wie alle, die auf dem Friedhof des haitianischen Flüchtlingslagers ruhen, kehrt auch er zurück... Und Mulder und Scully, die in dem makaberen Fall ermitteln, werden unversehens in den Krieg zwischen dem skrupellosen Lagerleiter und einem mächtigen Voodoopriester hineingezogenen.