The effects of expanded public funding for early education and child care on preschool enrollment in the 1990s
An examination of the relationship between public funding and child care enrollment levels among low-income children between 1992-2000, based on merging cross sectional data from the October Current Population Survey with data on state-level funding
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Fighting poverty: Attentive policy can make a huge difference
A discussion of child poverty trends in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1989-2008 and related poverty policies thought to be responsible for those trends
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Inequality in children's school readiness and public funding
An analysis of the relationship between the rise in public preschool funding and socioeconomic disparities in preschool enrollment, with considerations of preschool quality and its role in school readiness for disadvantaged children
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Inequality in pre-school education and school readiness
A study examining links between center or school-based preschool attendance and factors that contribute to school readiness and success, including reading and math skills, and suggests that school success gaps between children from high to middle and middle to low income families may be narrowed or eliminated by sending all children to preschool using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K)
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A question of quality: Do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England?
This paper examines how the quality of formal early childhood education and care is associated with children's background. By using different indicators of quality, the research also explored how the relationship varies depending on the way quality is measured. The analysis combines information from three administrative datasets -- the Early Years Census, the Schools Census and the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) dataset on inspections (2010-11). The results suggest that children from disadvantaged background have access to better qualified staff. However, services catering for more disadvantaged children are more segregated and receive poorer quality ratings from Ofsted, the national inspectorate. (author abstract)
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