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Assessing Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) investments in child care quality
Porter, Toni, 2002
New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum. (No longer accessible as of August 16, 2012)

A catalog, directory, and report on the evaluations of 104 local and state child care quality improvement initiatives funded through the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)

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Connecting with parents in the early years
Mendoza, Jean, 2003
Champaign: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting.

A literature review and discussions of participants at a symposium on communication between hard-to-reach parents of young children and early child care program staff, and its impact on children's school readiness.

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Connecting with parents in the early years: Executive summary
Mendoza, Jean, 2003
Champaign: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting.

The summary of a literature review on parent-staff communication enhancing children's school readiness and a recommendation by a symposium of stakeholders for future research, practice, and policy.

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Kith and kin: Informal child care: Highlights from recent research
Brown-Lyons, Melanie, May 2001
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty.

An overview of research on kith and kin child care, including: the proportion of children using informal child care, characteristics of families, reasons for families’ use of informal child care, costs of care, quality, provider characteristics and experiences, and child and parent experiences

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A toolkit for evaluating initiatives to improve child care quality
Porter, Toni, 2003
New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum.

A toolkit for policymakers and child care administrators to use in the design and conducting of child care quality initiative evaluations

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Year three implementation report: 2008-2009: Implementation evaluation of the Expanded Learning Time Initiative: Final report
Massachusetts. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, December 18, 2009
Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates.

A planning and implementation evaluation of the third year of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative, a grant program for schools to expand learning time by 25 percent, based on interviews and focus groups with district and school administrators, teachers, parents, and school partners, as well as on teacher and student surveys

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Year three implementation report: 2008-2009: Implementation evaluation of the Expanded Learning Time Initiative: Final report [Executive summary]
Massachusetts. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, December 18, 2009
Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates.

A summary of a planning and implementation evaluation of the third year of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative, a grant program for schools to expand learning time by 25 percent, based on interviews and focus groups with district and school administrators, teachers, parents, and school partners, as well as on teacher and student surveys

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Year three outcomes report: 2008-2009: Outcomes evaluation of the Expanded Learning Time Initiative: Final report
Massachusetts. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, March 30, 2010
Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates.

An examination of student outcomes during the third year of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative, a grant program for schools to expand learning time by 25 percent, based on interviews and focus groups with district and school administrators, teachers, parents, and school partners, as well as on teacher and student surveys, and on a matched comparison of ELT and non-ELT schools

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Year three outcomes report: 2008-2009: Outcomes evaluation of the Expanded Learning Time Initiative: Final report [Executive summary]
Massachusetts. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, March 30, 2010
Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates.

A summary of an examination of student outcomes during the third year of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative, a grant program for schools to expand learning time by 25 percent, based on interviews and focus groups with district and school administrators, teachers, parents, and school partners, as well as on teacher and student surveys, and on a matched comparison of ELT and non-ELT schools

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