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Table of Contents, July 2005

Vol. 60   No. 4

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in 2005: Updates from the Field

10	Introduction
12	Brain Research and Early Childhood Development: A Primer for Developmentally Appropriate Practice/Kathleen Cranley Gallagher
22	Viewpoint. Whatever Happened to Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Literacy?/Susan B. Neuman and Kathleen Roskos
28	Yeah, But’s That Keep Teachers from Embracing an Active Curriculum: Overcoming the Resistance/Eugene Geist and Angela C. Baum
38	Viewpoint. Early Childhood Amnesia: Reaffirming Children’s Need for Developmentally Appropriate Programs/David Elkind
42	The SAIL Effect: An Arts-Based Charter School Buoys Children’s Learning/L. Lawrence Riccio, Kimberly C. Morton, and Laura J. Colker
50	NAEYC Accreditation. Governing Board Approves New NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Performance Criteria
55	Resources on Developmentally Appropriate Practice in 2005: Updates from the Field

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72	Using Active Group Games to Develop Basic Life Skills/Marianne Torbert
79	Significance of Touch in Young Children’s Lives/Frances M. Carlson
86	“Yeah, I Like It!” Assessing What Children Think of Child Care/Michael K. Godfrey and Joanna J. Cemore

Departments

6	From Our President./Josué Cruz Jr. and Ruth Ann Ball
57	Advocates in Action. Compensation Initiatives in the States and at the Federal Level: Advocacy Opportunities
58	NAEYC Annual Conference and Expo
70	Observations and Reflections/Mark R. Ginsberg
70	NAEYC Business
93	Index of Advertisers
94	The Reading Chair
96	New Books

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