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Midwest Child Care Research Partnership
Raikes, Helen; Wilcox, Brian; , 2000

A partnership formed to establish a baseline of child care quality in the Midwest region using performance indicators, and to track changes in quality over time. The study addresses, in a large representative sample, questions concerning the quality of care that child care subsidies are buying, and includes parent surveys and focus groups conducted to better understand parent perceptions of child care quality. The work is linked with Early Head Start research and evaluation in three States (Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri) as well as to a Missouri study of quality in over 500 early childhood settings, and builds on small but important studies within the Midwest region. The performance indicators, data collection strategy and technology are intended for transfer to the States so that they can track quality of care through their subsidized child care programs.

Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects

Child care quality and workforce characteristics in four Midwestern states
Raikes, Helen; Wilcox, Brian; Peterson, Carla A.; Hegland, Susan M.; Atwater, Jane; Summers, Jean Ann; Thornburg, Kathy R.; Torquati, Julia C.; Edwards, Carolyn P.; Raikes, H. Abigail; , 2003

A study of observed child care quality and its relation to hypothesized and potential indicators of quality, using a representative randomly selected sample of the provider population in four Midwestern states

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Research Connections is supported by grant #90YE0104 from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents are solely the responsibility of the National Center for Children in Poverty and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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