Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families: Summary report
A summary of findings from the interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project.
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The children of LAUP: Executive summary of the First 5 LA Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study
A summary of an inquiry into the academic, developmental, and health related outcomes of the children enrolled in the universal prekindergarten program of Los Angeles County, California, based on direct assessments and interviews with parents and teachers
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Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2006: Executive summary
A summary of findings from the third year of the Head Start Quality Assurance Study, which examined Head Start programs' experiences implementing the Head Start National Reporting System (NRS), including: the quality of their administration of the NRS Child Assessment; their approaches to training staff to conduct the NRS Child Assessment; their use of NRS results for program improvement; and program staff perspectives of the NRS, all based on site visits to a nationally representative sample of 35 Head Start programs
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Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2007: Final report [Executive summary]
A summary of a study providing findings from the fourth year of the Head Start Quality Assurance Study, which examined Head Start programs' experiences implementing the Head Start National Reporting System (NRS), including: the quality of their administration of the NRS Child Assessment; their approaches to training staff to conduct the NRS Child Assessment; their experiences with a new NRS social-emotional development component; their use of NRS results for program improvement; and program staff perspectives of the NRS, all based on site visits to a nationally representative sample of 40 Head Start programs with an oversample of American Indian/Alaska Native programs
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Learning as we go: A first snapshot of Early Head Start programs, staff, families, and children: Vol. I. First report [Executive summary]
A summary of a profile of the characteristics of Early Head Start children and families, their home and Early Head Start program environments, and program services and staff in spring 2009, based on data collected from a nationally representative sample of 89 Early Head Start programs and 976 parents of 194 newborns and 782 1-year-olds, as part of the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey, or Baby FACES
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Making a difference in the lives of infants and toddlers and their families: The impacts of Early Head Start: Executive summary
A summary of findings from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of the impact of Early Head Start programs on the development of infants and toddlers, and the parenting and family development of low-income families in 17 diverse sites across the US. Findings when children were 36 months of age, showed a pattern of positive, modest impacts across a wide range of child, parent-child and parent outcomes.
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Using television as a teaching tool: The impacts of Ready to Learn workshops on parents, educators, and children in their care: Final report [Executive summary]
A summary of an experimental, random assignment component of the comprehensive evaluation of Ready to Learn--a program in which Public Broadcasting Service member stations broadcast a mandated number of hours of children's programming and coordinators at each station engage in outreach activities (including parent and early childhood educator workshops) to facilitate the use of this programming as an educational tool--that focused on the short- and long-term impacts of outreach activities on parents' and early childhood educators' behaviors and on children's school readiness, based on comparing assessments of workshop participants and nonparticipants
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