Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Improper payments data collection pilot project
A comparison of the quality and costs of four methods for estimating the true number of meals served by family child care homes participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program in order to reduce improper payments to providers for submitting erroneous meal counts
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Counting the child care workforce: A catalog of state data sources to quantify and describe child caregivers in the fifty states and the District of Columbia
A report on data sources suitable for use in calculating the size of the child care workforce for individual states
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Early care and education collaborative: Evaluation report
An evaluation of the design and implementation of strategic communications collaborative aimed at creating the public will and investments needed for quality and comprehensive state early care and education systems in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
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Early learning scale: Technical report
An account of the development of the Early Learning Scale (ELS), an assessment tool for preschoolers, and an examination of the validity of the instrument, based on data on the training of more than 57 early educators in New Jersey and 51 early educators in South Dakota
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Effects of five state prekindergarten programs on early learning
A study of the impact of state prekindergarten programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia on children's vocabulary, math, and print awareness skills by comparing children who had completed a year of prekindergarten with nonparticipants who had missed the enrollment age cut-off and were about to start prekindergarten
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K-2 standards and assessments: A 50-state review
A descriptive study of each state's kindergarten, first grade, and second grade content standards and mandatory assessments
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National Household Education Surveys program of 2005: After-school programs and activities: 2005
An examination of data from the After-School Programs and Activities survey on the participation of kindergarteners through eighth graders in after school programs, with discussion of the survey’s design, the different types of after school care, their participation rates, and the expenses surrounding various types of after school care
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Observations of teacher-child interactions in classrooms serving Latinos and dual language learners: Applicability of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in diverse settings
A test of the validity of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) for the prediction of academic outcomes and the measurement of social interactions in classrooms with varying compositions of English only and dual language learners, based on a secondary analysis of data collected in 721 prekindergarten classrooms in 11 states
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Out-of-School Time (OST) Observation Instrument: Report of the validation study
A study of the reliability and validity of the Out-of-School Time (OST) Observation Instrument
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Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes
Findings from a study examining current child care market rate survey methods, practices, and policies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, territories, and tribes, including descriptions of challenges faced by jurisdictions in conducting surveys, and methods of providing study data
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Preschool teaching & learning expectations: Standards of quality
State early learning standards
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Second error rate pilot report
A study of a methodology for measuring improper payments in states' administration of the Child Care and Development Fund
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Teaching literacy in preschool: A case study of negotiating policy and practice
An examination of 2 teachers' beliefs and practices in response to a state policy to implement the Early Learning Assessment System (ELAS), an early literacy-based assessment system, from field notes of classroom behavior, audiotaping of classroom talk, as well as interviews and artifacts from 10 full day observations in 2 classrooms
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