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Boys, girls, and "two cultures" of child care
Winer, Abby C., January, 2012
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 58(1), 22-49

A comparison of child care quality differences by gender, and an exploration of the contributions of gender composition of the child care setting, child behavior, and structural, global, and care giving quality to those overall differences, based on data from a subset of 66 toddlers, between the ages of 24 and 35 months, from the Temperament Over Time Study (TOTS)

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Change and stability among publicly subsidized license-exempt child care providers
Whitebook, Marcy, 2003
University of California, Berkeley, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

A study assessing the characteristics of subsidized license-exempt child care providers within Alameda County, California

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Child care as an adult work environment
Phillips, Deborah A., 1991
Journal of Social Issues, 47(2), 49-70

A study of the predictors of child care provider job satisfaction and turnover, and their influence on child care quality and work environment

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Child care for children in poverty: Opportunity or inequality?
Phillips, Deborah A., 1991
Child Development, 65(1), 472-492

A study of child care quality in child care centers serving children from low-income families, its relationship to type of center-based programming, and its comparability to child care quality in centers serving upper- and middle-income families, based on data from the nationally representative Profile of Child Care Settings study and the National Child Care Staffing Study, which collected observational data on child care quality in 227 child care centers in five cities

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Child care in the United States, 1970 to 1995
Hofferth, Sandra L., 1987
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 49(3), 559-571

An exploration of the trends surrounding mothers’ child care arrangements over the period of 1970 to 1995 and their implications for the supply and demand of child care in the United States

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Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: A unique research opportunity
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, 1991
Developmental Psychology, 27(6), 918-931

A description of the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data set and its importance and relevance to future studies in multiple disciplines

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Classroom quality and time allocation in Tulsa's early childhood programs
Phillips, Deborah A., March 30, 2007
(CROCUS Working Paper No. 9). Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston.

A study comparing classroom time spent on instruction, instructional quality, and predictors of quality in publicly-funded universal prekindergarten programs with Head Start programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, based on classroom observations and teacher surveys

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Correlates of grandmother childcare support to adolescent mothers: Implications for development in two generations of women
Voran, Miriam, 1993
Children and Youth Services Review, 15(4), 321-334

An examination of three issues of African-American grandmother child care support to adolescent mothers, including correlates of grandmother support, correlates of grandmother satisfaction, and the relationship between grandmother support and varying characteristics of teen adaptation to motherhood

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Double Jeopardy: Poorer social-emotional outcomes for children in the NICHD SECCYD experiencing home and child-care environments that confer risk
Watamura, Sarah, January/February 2011
Child Development, 82(1), 48-65

A study of the relationships between both home and child care quality and the socioemotional adjustment of groups of children in five different environments at ages 24, 36, and 54 months, based on a secondary analysis of data from 771 children

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The effects of universal pre-k in Oklahoma: Research highlights and policy implications
Gormley, Jr., William T., 2003
(CROCUS Working Paper No. 2). Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.

A discussion of the policy implications of findings from an Oklahoma-based study regarding the effects of universal pre-kindergarten programs on child outcomes

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The effects of universal pre-k in Oklahoma: Research highlights and policy implications
Gormley, Jr., William T., February 2005
Policy Studies Journal, 33(1), 65-82

A discussion of the policy implications of findings from an Oklahoma-based study regarding the effects of universal pre-kindergarten programs on child outcomes

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The effects of universal pre-k on cognitive development
Gormley, Jr., William T., 2004
(CROCUS Working Paper No. 4). Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.

An evaluation of Oklahoma's universal prekindergarten program's impact on children's school readiness; standardized test scores of kindergarten children who completed the program were compared to the scores of preschool children just beginning the program

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The effects of universal pre-k on cognitive development
Gormley, Jr., William T., 2005
Developmental Psychology, 41(6), 872-884

A study of the impact of the Oklahoma universal pre-kindergarten program on school readiness, as measured by the Woodcock-Johnson Achievement Test

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English literacy levels of the early care and education workforce: A profile and associations with quality of care
Phillips, Deborah A., 2003
University of California, Berkeley, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. (No longer accessible as of October 11, 2012).

A report examining the literacy levels of early childhood educators in Alameda County, California

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Foster children and placement stability: The role of child care assistance
Meloy, Mary Elizabeth Corrington, September-October 2012
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 33(6), 252-259

A study of the relationship between child care assistance receipt and placement disruptions among foster children under the age of 5, based on data from 18,944 children in foster care for at least three months in Illinois

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Head Start's comparative advantage: Myth or reality?
Gormley, Jr., William T., August 2010
Policy Studies Journal, 38(3), 397-418

A comparison of the cognitive, socioemotional, and health effects of two high-quality early childhood education programs in the same city based on assessments, a survey of parents and teachers, and administrative data from Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Head Start's comparative advantage: Myth or reality?
Gormley, Jr., William T., August 2010
(CROCUS Working Paper No. 14). Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.

A comparison of the cognitive, socioemotional, and health effects of Head Start and public prekindergarten programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, based on child assessments, a survey of parents and teachers, and administrative data

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High-quality school-based pre-k can boost early learning for children with special needs
Phillips, Deborah A., Summer 2012
Exceptional Children, 78(4), 471-490

A comparison of letter word, spelling, and applied problems scores for both children with and without special needs upon entrance into kindergarten after participation in the Tulsa public prekindergarten program, and to children with and without special needs upon entrance into the program the following year, based on data from the 2006-2007 school years from 1,367 Tulsa public prekindergarten entrants and 1,385 Tulsa prekindergarten alumni children upon entrance into kindergarten in 2005-2006

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The import of the cortisol rise in child care differs as a function of behavioral inhibition
Gunnar, Megan R., May 2011
Developmental Psychology, 47(3), 792-803

An investigation of the association between rising cortisol levels of children in child care and their development of anxious, internalized, and inhibited behaviors, after controlling for home environment and child care quality, based on assessments of 107 children aged 3 through 4.5

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Inside the pre-kindergarten door: Classroom climate and instructional time allocation in Tulsa's pre-K programs
Phillips, Deborah A., Q3 2009
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 24(3), 213-362

A study of the quality of Tulsa prekindergarten and Head Start classrooms and a comparison of the quality of classrooms in Tulsa with sample of classrooms from across 11 states, based on observations of 106 public prekindergarten and Head Start classrooms in Tulsa, Oklahoma and data collected from 241 prekindergarten and 25 Head Start classrooms from 11 states

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Inside the pre-kindergarten door: Classroom climate and instructional time allocation in Tulsa's pre-k programs
Phillips, Deborah A., May 2009
(CROCUS Working Paper No. 13). Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.

A study of classroom climate and academic instruction in public prekindergarten programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a comparison of classroom climate and academic instruction in Tulsa prekindergarten classrooms to classroom processes in Head Start and other state prekindergarten classrooms, and an examination of classroom and teacher characteristics associated with variations in classroom climate and academic instruction

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Literacy levels of child care providers
Phillips, Deborah A., 2002
Unpublished manuscript

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The National Child Care Staffing Study: Revisited four years in the life of center-based child care
Whitebook, Marcy, 1993
Washington, DC: Center for Child Care Workforce.

A follow-up study of the National Child Care Staffing Study of 1992 investigating child care work force stability, changes in program quality, and evidence of increased resources in the centers conducted to determine whether a full-scale, longitudinal observational follow-up could be implemented and provide valuable data

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Predictors of parent and provider satisfaction with child day care dimensions: A comparison of center-based and family child day care
Britner, Preston A., 1995
Child Welfare, 74(6), 1135-1168

A comparative study of the predictors of parent and provider satisfaction with center-based or family based full-time child care arrangements

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Preschool programs can boost school readiness
Gormley, Jr., William T., June 2008
(CROCUS Working Paper No. 12). Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.

A study comparing the impacts on children's early reading, writing, and math skills of participating in Head Start or participating in Oklahoma's universal prekindergarten program, and relating the variation in impacts to differences in classroom practices in the programs

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