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Associations between classroom quality and children's vocabulary and executive function skills in an urban public prekindergarten program An examination of associations between classroom quality and both receptive vocabulary and executive function, based on data from 414 children attending the Boston Public Schools public prekindergarten program in 2009-2010 |
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Caring for the Caregivers: Estimating the Causal Impact of Allowing Home-based Child Care Workers to Form Labor Unions on the Cost, Type, and Availability of Subsidized Child Care in Illinois This study investigates the impact of granting Illinois home-based child care providers the right to form a labor union on the per-child cost of subsidized child care for infants and toddlers, the type of child care (home-based vs. center-based) used by subsidy-receiving Illinois infants and toddlers, and the percentage of Illinois infants and toddlers who use child care subsidies. These analyses are conducted using a comparative case study method with social, economic, demographic, and housing data from the American Community Survey and records of the Child Care and Development Fund on United States infants and toddlers whose families received child care subsidies during the period from 2002-2008. Results are expected to reveal whether the unionization of Illinois home-based child care providers increased, via the collective bargaining process, the per-child amount of vouchers paid to providers; and the level of influence, if any, this action affords the unions to influence bureaucratic and regulatory processes encouraging subsidy-receiving families to choose home-based, as opposed to center-based, care for their young children. |
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Early childhood education in Mexico: Expansion, quality improvement, and curricular reform An examination of the impacts on early childhood care and education coverage, quality, and equity of three early childhood policy initiatives in Mexico: preschool expansion, quality improvement, and curricular reform |
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Examining the Effects of Subsidy Eligibility on Parent Employment, Child Care Arrangements and Children’s Development Federal law limits eligibility of child care subsidy receipt to a maximum of 85% of a state's median income, but states may choose to set thresholds below this level. As a result, there is a substantial amount of variation in the thresholds states set and variation within states over time. This variation in eligibility is used in the present study to predict changes in parent employment, child care arrangements and child outcomes. Specifically, this project examines the impact of eligibility for child care subsidies, as determined by state income eligibility thresholds, on parents' labor force participation and child care choices. In addition, the study investigates whether the change in child care and parent employment experiences by eligible families has subsequent effects on child behavior and school readiness. Measures include: Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) State Plans; National Household Education Survey (NHES); National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). |
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Impacts of a prekindergarten program on children's mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small-to-large impacts on children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten program that implemented a coaching system and consistent literacy, language, and mathematics curricula on these and other nontargeted, essential components of school readiness, such as executive functioning. Participants included 2,018 four and five-year-old children. Findings indicated that the program had moderate-to-large impacts on children's language, literacy, numeracy and mathematics skills, and small impacts on children's executive functioning and a measure of emotion recognition. Some impacts were considerably larger for some subgroups. For urban public school districts, results inform important programmatic decisions. For policy makers, results confirm that prekindergarten programs can improve educationally vital outcomes for children in meaningful, important ways. (author abstract) |
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Lessons from the field: Head Start mental health strategies to meet changing needs A discussion of assessment, gaps in research, fiscal restraints and other issues integral to efforts to address mental health needs in the context of Head Start services, focusing on successful initiatives to overcome program challenges through staff development, family involvement, forging connections to the larger community, and other productive strategies |
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Lessons from the field: Head Start mental health strategies to meet changing needs [Executive summary] A summary of a study of the mental health strategies generated by 14 Head Start programs to meet the changing and intensifying mental health needs of participating children, families, and staff |
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Long-term effects of early childhood programs on social outcomes and delinquency A discussion of the benefits of early childhood program participation in aiding the prevention of crimes committed by children, based on a literature review of child delinquency and associated risk factors, with policy recommendations for program design and implementation |
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Prevention as cumulative protection: Effects of early family support and education on chronic delinquency and its risks A study of the effects of early family support and education prevention in curbing chronic juvenile delinquency and crime |
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Quality of early childhood development programs in global contexts: Rationale for investment, conceptual framework and implications for equity An examination of issues related to quality of and access to early childhood programs and services in international settings |
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Resolving paradoxical criteria for the expansion and replication of early childhood care and education programs Recommendations for funders, policy makers, and evaluators regarding next steps in expansion and replication in Early Child Care and Education Programs based on a five-fold typology |
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Variation in teenage mothers' experiences of child care and other components of welfare reform: Selection processes and developmental consequences A study of cognitive and mental health outcomes of the children of several groups of teen mothers choosing different types of child care and different forms of education and training as part of the New Chance welfare-to-work program |
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