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Approaches to individualizing supports for high-risk preschoolers [Special issue] A special issue of the journal NHSA Dialog, focusing on approaches to meet the learning needs of young children at risk of academic failure |
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Bridging the worlds of Head Start and welfare-to-work: Building a two generation self-sufficiency program from the ground up A discussion on the necessary steps and aid for parents on welfare to move to the workforce |
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Building strong systems of support for young children's mental health: Key strategies for states and a planning tool A discussion of strategies to develop a system of supports for young children's mental health, including in early childhood programs, with state examples |
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The challenge for Head Start: Realizing its vision as a two-generation program |
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Coaching and quality assistance in quality rating improvement systems: Approaches used by TA providers to improve quality in early care and education programs and home-based settings A study of the features of on-site technical assistance and coaching provided by state child care quality rating and improvement system technical assistance providers, based on interviews with 34 technical assistance providers in 17 states |
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Features of professional development and on-site assistance in child care quality rating improvement systems: A survey of state-wide systems A study of the professional development and on-site assistance available to center- and home-based child care providers who participate in state quality rating and improvement systems, based on interviews with key informants in 17 states |
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Measuring the quality of environmental supports for young children's social and emotional competence An inventory of current measures of environmental supports for social and emotional competence (ESSEC) in child care and early education programs, and a recommendation of measurable indicators of the quality of ESSEC for children in early childhood programs |
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The past decade's research on child care quality and children's development: What are we learning, directions for the future |
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Practices for promoting young children's learning in QRIS standards An analysis of child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) standards in 23 states to identify practices for supporting children's early learning in eight areas, based on coding of state QRIS standards and early learning guidelines |
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Providing extra supports for language and literacy development to struggling learners in preschool A description of the outcomes of and strategies used by the New York University Early Reading First (ERF) program to deliver individualized early literacy instruction to students, based on a sample of 4-year-old children from 5 full-day preschool intervention sites assessed twice throughout the program year |
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QUALITYstarsNY: Field test evaluation report An evaluation of the field test of QUALITYstarsNY, New York State's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), that examined: program recruitment, support, and participation; the use of QRIS standards to measure quality; and the implications for state-wide implementation, based on program observations, surveys, interviews, and documents, and lead agency interviews |
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QUALITYstarsNY: Field test evaluation report: Executive summary A summary of an evaluation of the field test of QUALITYstarsNY, New York State's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), that examined: program recruitment, support, and participation; the use of QRIS standards to measure quality; and the implications for state-wide implementation, based on program observations, surveys, interviews, and documents, and lead agency interviews |
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Supporting struggling learners in preschool: Emerging approaches and opportunities Arguments for the importance of early language and literacy interventions for preschool students to ensure children's future academic success, and an overview of current strategies and approaches, including those adapted by Early Reading First (ERF) projects to deliver such interventions to preschool students |
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Supports for Early Literacy Assessment |
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Supports for Social-Emotional Growth Assessment |
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The well-being of children in working poor families: Report of a meeting An examination of the status of research and policy concerned with the health and development of children in working poor families |
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