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2010-2011 pre-kindergarten programs in the District of Columbia capacity audit
Daily, Sarah,
Washington, DC: District of Columbia, Office of Early Childhood Education.

A study of the supply of and unmet demand for prekindergarten program slots in the District of Columbia, as well as an examination of the incorporation of Head Start programs into the District of Columbia early care and education delivery system, based on program visits to conduct enrollment counts and on interviews with prekindergarten program directors

Reports & Papers

Family-provider relationship quality: Review of conceptual and empirical literature of family-provider relationships
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, November, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-46). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A review of literature that conceptualizes relationships between families and early care and education providers and that identifies factors associated with high-quality family-provider relationships

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Getting into the black box: How do low-income parents make choices about early care and education in Maryland?
Forry, Nicole D., November, 2012
(Publication No. 2012-42). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A study of low income parents' perceptions of high-quality child care, their priorities in choosing child care arrangements, and their child care decision-making process, based on four focus groups with 41 parents held in Prince George's County and Baltimore City, Maryland

Reports & Papers

Identifying profiles of quality in home-based child care [Executive summary]
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2012
(Issue Brief OPRE 2012-20). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of a study to identify profiles of child care quality among a sample of family child care providers and to examine provider characteristics associated with each profile, based on an analysis of observational and survey data collected from 341 family child care providers in the Quality Interventions for Early Care and Education (QUINCE) Partnerships for Inclusion (PFI) study

Executive Summary

Quality of Caregiver-Child Interaction for Infants and Toddlers (Q-CCIIT): A review of the literature
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011
(OPRE 2011-25). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A review of research to identify measures of adult-child interactions in infancy and toddlerhood and measures of child care setting quality and interactions related to infants and toddlers

Literature Review