Understanding quality in context: Child care centers, communities, markets, and public policy [Executive summary]

Author(s): Rohacek, Monica; Adams, Gina; Kisker, Ellen Eliason;
Date Issued: 2010
Publisher(s): Urban Institute
Description: A summary of a study of child care center directors' definitions of child care quality, the quality of care in the directors' centers, and the relationship between director and center characteristics and center quality, based on in-depth interviews with directors in 38 centers across 4 sites and observations of quality in the 38 centers
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Funder(s): John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Source: Washington, DC: Urban Institute. Retrieved August 13, 2010, from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412191-understand-quality.pdf
Note: This resource was written with Anna Danziger, Teresa Derrick-Mills, and Heidi Johnson
Topics: Child Care & Early Education Quality

Child Care & Early Education Providers/Organizations > Provider Type/Setting > Center-Based Child Care & Early Education

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