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			Building a community-wide early learning system: East Yakima at baseline Del Grosso, Patricia, 05 May, 2008 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. Baseline findings from a multi-year implementation evaluation, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative, part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that examined the East Yakima community, the availability and quality of child care services there, the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative planning process, and the community's goals and expectations for East Yakima Early Learning Initiative implementation	Reports & Papers
			Building a community-wide early learning system: White Center at baseline Paulsell, Diane, 05 May, 2008 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. Baseline findings from a multi-year implementation evaluation, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the White Center Early Learning Initiative (WCELI), part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that examined the White Center community, the availability and quality of child care services there, the WCELI planning process, and the community's goals and expectations for WCELI implementation	Reports & Papers
			Building strong Ready to Learn outreach Vogel, Cheri, 30 October, 2001 Alexandria, VA: Public Broadcasting Service. A substudy of the comprehensive evaluation of Ready to Learn, a program in which Public Broadcasting Service member stations broadcast a mandated number of hours of children's programming, and coordinators at each station engage in outreach activities to facilitate the use of this programming as an educational tool, with a focus on coordinators' outreach activities and their views on a Ready to Learn professional development seminar	Reports & Papers
			Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families United States. Administration for Children and Families, 2001 Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. An interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, analyzing child and family outcomes through the first two years of children's lives.	Reports & Papers
			Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families: Volume I. Technical report United States. Administration for Children and Families, 2001 Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. An evaluation of the effectiveness of Early Head Start programs in improving children's outcomes, based on a national assessment of 3,000 children at 17 sites	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Child care quality rating and improvement systems: Approaches to integrating programs for young children in two states United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011 (OPRE Report 2011-28). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. An examination of the role, and how to assess the role, that state child care quality rating and improvement systems can play in early childhood care and education system integration and development, based on document reviews, administrator interviews, and two-day site visits in Indiana and Pennsylvania	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Defining and measuring quality: An in-depth study of five child care quality rating and improvement systems United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011 (OPRE Report 2011-29). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. An examination of aspects of child care quality rating and improvement systems related to definitions and measures of quality, including variation in definitions and measures, processes to measure each component and determine the overall level of quality, and availability of data on quality ratings, based on in-depth case studies in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Measuring quality across three child care quality rating and improvement systems: Findings from secondary analyses United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011 (OPRE Report 2011-30). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A study of the prevalence of quality components among participating child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) providers and their relationship to observed quality, based on analyses of QRIS administrative data, professional development registries, and observation data in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee	Reports & Papers
			The Early Head Start Father Studies: Design, data collection, and summary of father presence in the lives of infants and toddlers Boller, Kimberley, 2006 Parenting: Science and Practice, 6(2-3), 117-143 An overview of the Early Head Start Father Studies, describing the study methodology, response rates, father demographics, and father child relationship	Reports & Papers
			The effectiveness of Early Head Start for 3-year-old children and their parents: Lessons for policy and programs Love, John M., 2005 Developmental Psychology, 41(6), 885-901 A summary of the evaluated impacts of Early Head Start on child and parent outcomes near the end of program participation	Reports & Papers
			Efforts to meet children's physical activity and nutritional needs: Findings from the I Am Moving, I Am Learning implementation evaluation: Final Report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, February 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Findings from the implementation of I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IM/IL), a Head Start program enhancement intended to increase the amount of time devoted to moderate to vigorous physical activity, improve the quality of structured movement activities, and promote healthy food choices, based on interviews with program administrators of 56 Head Start programs that implemented IM/IL to supplement their curricula	Reports & Papers
			Father involvement in Early Head Start programs: A practitioners study Raikes, Helen, 2002 Lincoln: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Center on Children, Families, and the Law. Results of a study of father involvement in Early Head Start (EHS) programs funded from 1995-1998, conducted in the winter of 1999-2000, based on a survey completed by 261 of 416 eligible programs and four follow-up focus groups conducted with EHS program directors and father involvement coordinators, with recommendations for effective practices	Reports & Papers
			Implementing Ready to Learn outreach: Lessons from 20 public television stations Vogel, Cheri, April 01, 2002 Alexandria, VA: Public Broadcasting Service. A substudy of the comprehensive evaluation of Ready to Learn, a program in which Public Broadcasting Service member stations broadcast a mandated number of hours of children's programming and coordinators at each station engage in outreach activities to facilitate the use of this programming as an educational tool, that focused on the implementation of outreach activities, based on site visits to member stations	Reports & Papers
			Leading the way: Characteristics and early experiences of selected Early Head Start programs: Volume I: Cross-site perspectives United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, December 1999 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families. A description of the characteristics and early implementation experiences of the 17 research programs participating in the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project in fall 1997, with a focus on similarities and differences across programs in the characteristics of the families they serve, their goals and expected outcomes, the services they offer, and their early challenges and successes	Reports & Papers
			Leading the Way: Characteristics and Early Experiences of Selected Early Head Start Programs: Volume III: Program Implementation United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, December 2000 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families. An analysis of the levels of implementation and child care quality achieved in the early stages of the evolution of 17 programs participating in the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project in fall 1997 in terms of the revised Head Start Program Performance Standards	Reports & Papers
			Leading the way: Characteristics and early experiences of selected Early Head Start programs: Volume II: Program Profiles United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, December 1999 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families. A detailed overview of each of the 17 center-based, home-based, and mixed approach programs participating in the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project in fall 1997, with information about enrollment, services, program improvement efforts, and local research studies	Reports & Papers
			Learning as we go: A first snapshot of Early Head Start programs, staff, families, and children: Vol. I. First report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, February, 2011 (OPRE 2011-7). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A profile of the characteristics of Early Head Start children and families, their home and Early Head Start program environments, and program services and staff in spring 2009, based on data collected from a nationally representative sample of 89 Early Head Start programs and 976 parents of 194 newborns and 782 1-year-olds, as part of the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey, or Baby FACES	Reports & Papers
			Making a difference in the lives of infants and toddlers and their families: The impacts of Early Head Start: Vol. I. Final technical report United States. Administration for Children and Families, 2002 Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A report of the findings from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of the impact of Early Head Start programs on the development of infants and toddlers, and the parenting and family development of low-income families across the US	Reports & Papers
			Preferences and perceptions about getting support expressed by low-income fathers Summers, Jean Ann, 2004 Fathering, 2(1), 61-82 A survey of fathers of children participating in Early Head Start to determine their perceptions of available supports for enhancing their fathering roles	Reports & Papers
			A profile of kindergarten readiness in East Yakima: Fall 2007 Boller, Kimberley, 02 July, 2008 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. The first year of analyses from a multi-year kindergarten readiness study, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative, part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that describe the school readiness and family characteristics of children entering kindergarten in fall 2007 in East Yakima, Washington, based on parent interviews, home observations, direct child assessments, and teacher reports of children's skills and behavior	Reports & Papers
			A profile of kindergarten readiness in White Center: Fall 2007 Boller, Kimberley, 02 July, 2008 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. The first year of analyses from a multi-year kindergarten readiness study, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the White Center Early Learning Initiative (WCELI), part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that describe the school readiness and family characteristics of children entering kindergarten in fall 2007 in White Center, Washington, based on parent interviews, home observations, direct child assessments, and teacher reports of children's skills and behavior	Reports & Papers
			Ready to Learn workshop participation: Short-term impacts: Final report Johnson, Amy W., December 23, 2003 Alexandria, VA: Public Broadcasting Service. An experimental, random assignment component of the comprehensive evaluation of Ready to Learn--a program in which Public Broadcasting Service member stations broadcast a mandated number of hours of children's programming and coordinators at each station engage in outreach activities (including parent and early childhood educator workshops) to facilitate the use of this programming as an educational tool--that focused on the short-term impacts of outreach activities on parents' and early childhood educators' behaviors, based on comparing assessments of workshop participants and nonparticipants	Reports & Papers
			Results from the "I Am Moving, I Am Learning" stage 1 survey: Final interim report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October 25, 2007 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A study of the implementation of I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IM/IL), a Head Start program enhancement intended to increase the amount of time devoted to moderate to vigorous physical activity, improve the quality of stuctured movement activities, and promote healthy food choices, based on a survey of staff members who had been trained to implement IM/IL in their Head Start program	Reports & Papers
			The role of Early Head Start programs in addressing the child care needs of low-income families with infants and toddlers: Influences on child care use and quality United States. Administration for Children and Families, 2004 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families. A discussion of the patterns of child care use by Early Head Start families and the impacts that program participation had on families' child care use and the quality of care used	Reports & Papers

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