Study 2 was a
prospective longitudinal study of early childhood development in 412 Latino prekindergarten
and kindergarten children attending urban, public elementary schools. For the
present study, only families of foreign-born mothers (n = 375) with complete data (n = 343;
91%) were included. The final sample included 636 (293 Afro-Caribbean; 343 Latino)
immigrant families. Families that were included in the present study did not differ from the
larger study samples on demographic characteristics (i.e., education, employment, marital
status, gender, child and parent age) or on a standardized test of child school readiness. In
the Afro-Caribbean sample, however, families who were included had higher teacher-rated
parent involvement at home but similar levels of parent involvement at school.