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Advancing child abuse and neglect protective factors: The role of early care and education infrastructure [Executive summary] A summary of a discussion of the use of the Strengthening Families approach to prevent child abuse and neglect through the promotion of protective factors in the delivery of early childhood education and care services |
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Advancing ECE2 policy: Early childhood education (ECE) and its quest for excellence, coherence, and equity (ECE) An overview of the historical context of American early education since the 1960s, with research-based policy recommendations for advancing early education |
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Alignment: A missing link in early childhood transitions? An exploration of the role of complementary curricula in facilitating children’s transition between prekindergarten and kindergarten, based on an analysis of curricula from prekindergarten and kindergarten programs in four communities |
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American early childhood education: Preventing or perpetuating inequity? A discussion of the possibility of the current system early childhood education and care in the United States to perpetuate inequalities and disparities amongst children, and arguments for the improvement of early childhood systems to prevent social inequality |
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Assessing child-care quality with a telephone interview A test of the viability of telephone surveys as an alternative to direct observation methods to assess quality in child care sites, based on a comparison of assessments of 89 family child-care homes and 92 centers using both methods |
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Assessing the state of state assessments: Perspectives on assessing young children A collection of papers that examine issues surrounding state systems to assess school readiness |
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Back to basics: Essential components of an American early care and education system An exploration of the elements required to create a quality system of early childhood education and care services in the United States |
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B.A. plus: Reconciling reality and reach A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of requiring early childhood teachers to hold a bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree, and an outline of alternative and complimentary approaches to educational requirements for early educators |
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The care and education of America's young children: At the brink of a paradigm shift? An essay on the policy impediments and service delivery fragmentations of early child care and education services in the United States |
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Challenges for early childhood education and care policy An overview of recent, significant changes in early childhood education and care policy in the United States, which discusses future implications and trends |
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Child care aid and quality for California families: Focusing on San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties A report on subsidy use and quality of child care selected by single mother welfare recipients in San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties, California |
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Child care and early education: Effective investments in early care and education: What can we learn from research? A summary of research findings designed to educate policymakers regarding the effects of high-quality early care and education on children's developmental outcomes |
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Child care and early education: The effects of professional development efforts and compensation on quality of early care and education services An overview of the relationship between high quality early care and education and teachers' formal education, specialized training and compensation |
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Child care and early education: The effects of regulation on the quality of early care and education A review of recent research and policy on child care and early education program regulation, including information on current state regulatory strategies and processes in areas such as staff child ratios, staff training, safety, and physical environments |
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Child care and early education: Infant and toddler care: Meeting the needs of families with options that work A review of research on infant and toddler care in a variety of settings identifying promising state policy strategies and highlighting options for policymakers who aim to improve the affordability, availability, quality and coordination of infant and toddler care in their state |
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Child care in poor communities: Early learning effects of type, quality, and stability A study on the influence of child care type, quality, and stability on the social and cognitive development of the preschool children of low-income single mothers |
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Child care in poor communities: Early learning effects of type, quality, and stability A longitudinal analysis of the effects of child care type, quality, and stability on the social and cognitive development of preschool children of low-income single mothers |
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Child care quality: Centers and home settings that serve poor families A multi-site, longitudinal study examining the quality of child care settings chosen by low-income mothers enrolled in welfare-to-work programs |
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Child care selection under welfare reform: How mothers balance work requirements and parenting An examination of factors affecting the child care decisions of mothers participating in welfare to work programs |
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school The longitudinal follow up to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, following children for five years to assess the impact of quality of child care experiences on later development. |
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school [Executive summary] Report summarizes the key findings of the longitudinal follow up study to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study. The longitudinal study examines developmental outcomes of quality of center-based child care. |
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Children's readiness for school: Issues in assessment A discussion of the purpose, content, and process of assessing children's readiness for school |
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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research? An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness |
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Cost, quality and child outcomes in child care centers: Executive summary A summary of findings from a study of the relationship between child care costs and quality and the concurrent effects of child care quality on children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, based on data from licensed community childcare sites in Los Angeles County in California, the Hartford corridor in Connecticut, the Frontal range in Colorado, and the Piedmont region in North Carolina |
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Cost, quality, and child outcomes in child care centers: Public report Findings from a study of the relationship between child care costs and quality and the concurrent effects of child care quality on children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, based on data from licensed community childcare sites in Los Angeles County in California, the Hartford corridor in Connecticut, the Frontal range in Colorado, and the Piedmont region in North Carolina |
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