Child care instability: Definitions, context, and policy implications
An examination of child care instability, including its definition and characteristics, causes, relationship to child care subsidies, and policy implications
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Child care instability: Definitions, context, and policy implications [Executive summary]
A summary of an examination of child care instability, including its definition and characteristics, causes, relationship to child care subsidies, and policy implications
Executive Summary
Early care and education for children in low-income families: Patterns of use, quality, and potential policy implications
A review of research in four areas: 1) child care and early education usage patterns among children from low-income families, 2) child care and early education quality and its relation to child development, 3) child care and early education quality for children from low-income families, and 4) the policy context shaping child care and early education quality
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Early care and education for children in low-income families: Patterns of use, quality, and potential policy implications [Executive summary]
A summary of a review of research in four areas: 1) child care and early education usage patterns among children from low-income families, 2) child care and early education quality and its relation to child development, 3) child care and early education quality for children from low-income families, and 4) the policy context shaping child care and early education quality
Executive Summary
Understanding quality in context: Child care centers, communities, markets, and public policy
A study of child care center directors' definitions of child care quality, the quality of care in the directors' centers, and the relationship between director and center characteristics and center quality, based on in-depth interviews with directors in 38 centers across 4 county sites and observations of quality in the 38 centers
Reports & Papers
Understanding quality in context: Child care centers, communities, markets, and public policy [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of child care center directors' definitions of child care quality, the quality of care in the directors' centers, and the relationship between director and center characteristics and center quality, based on in-depth interviews with directors in 38 centers across 4 sites and observations of quality in the 38 centers
Executive Summary
Understanding Quality in Context: Child Care Providers, Markets, Communities, and Policy
An examination of the role and relative importance of provider and program characteristics that influence quality of care offered by child care providers, and an exploration of whether these differ for providers receiving subsidies. The project augments existing quantitative and qualitative provider data collected in five communities. A total of 417 center directors and 536 family child care providers, caring for children under age five for at least 40 hours per week, are included in a sample of subsidized and unsubsidized programs. A second project phase examines how these factors play a role in decision-making as providers decide how to allocate resources related to program quality. The study informs policy and program choices about: (1) how provider, market, community, and subsidy policy factors shape the quality of child care; (2) the relative importance of these factors; and (3) whether the factors and their relative importance differ for providers receiving voucher-based child care subsidies.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Who knows how safe?: The status of state efforts to ensure quality child care
A proposal for more stringent health and safety standards for child care facilities, citing current safety and policy problems studied by the Children?s Defense Fund
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