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			Assessing the Effectiveness of State and Local Quality Initiatives Porter, Toni, 2000 Bank Street College of Education An exploration of initiatives designed to improve the quality and supply of child care. Questions include: (1) What initiatives have states and communities funded to improve child care quality and expand child care supply?; (2) How do states and communities assess the effectiveness of these initiatives?; and (3) What assessment tools/methods would be useful to states and communities? Products include a tool-kit of assessment measures and an analysis of selected programs.	Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
			''Bringing reality to the table'': Contributors to the lack of parent participation in an early childhood service program Peart, Norman A., 2000 Administration in Social Work, 24(4), 21-38 An examination of hindrances to parent participation in an early childhood service program, Smart Start, focusing on enhancing family involvement in collaborative social service partnerships	Reports & Papers
			Caregiver-Environment Scale: Assessing the quality of center-based infant care Oren, Thomas A., 2000 Early Childhood Education Journal, 28(2), 133-138 An analysis of the reliability and item appropriateness of the Caregiver-Environment Scale, a measure assessing caregiver-infant interactions and infant center materials and environment	Reports & Papers
			Caregiver-mother partnership behavior and the quality of caregiver-child and mother-child interactions Owen, Margaret T., 2000 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 15(3), 413-428 An examination of the relationship between mother-caregiver communication, particularly concerning children�s behavior and experiences, and the quality of caregiver-child and mother-child interactions	Reports & Papers
			Changes in the availability, quality and price of child care in Massachusetts between 1997 and 1999 Witt, Robert, 2000 (Wellesley College Working Paper 2000-12). Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Department of Economics A report comparing the characteristics of subsidized and non-subsidized child care providers in Massachusetts from 1997 to 1999	Reports & Papers
			Characteristics and quality of child care for toddlers and preschoolers NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2000 Applied Developmental Science, 4(3), 116-135 An investigation of the relationship between structural and caregiver characteristics and child care quality, based on a data from the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study on Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Child care arrangement and preschool development To, Teresa, 2000 Canadian Journal of Public Health, 87(1), 62-65 An analysis of the relationship between child care arrangement and poor development attainment in Canadian children aged 2 to 3, using data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth	Reports & Papers
			Child care center quality differences: The role of profit status, client preferences, and trust Morris, John R., 2000 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 29(3), 377-399 An investigation of the view that in a mixed child care industry providing services to poorly informed customers, for-profit producers provide lower quality care than non-profit producers by skimping on quality characteristics that buyers cannot easily observe	Reports & Papers
			Child care improvement on a shoestring: Evaluating a low-cost approach to improving the availability of quality child care Jaeger, Elizabeth A., 2000 Evaluation Review, 24(5), 484-515 An evaluation of the Philadelphia Early Childhood Collaborative, a local experiment in coordinated planning and decentralized administration of services for the Philadelphia child care community, focusing on the program�s ability to be implemented as an organizational entity, impact on service delivery, and the influence of its services on participating child care providers	Reports & Papers
			Child care in infancy: A transactional perspective Hungerford, Anne, 2000 In C. H. Zeanah (Ed.), Handbook of infant mental health (2nd ed., pp. 519-532). New York: Guilford Press A compendium of issues surrounding child care for infants under 12 months old	Reports & Papers
			Child care in South Carolina: Quality, affordability, & availability Marsh, Janet G., April 2000 Columbia: South Carolina, Department of Health and Human Services. An investigation of the quality and affordability of available child care options for parents in South Carolina, and an inquiry into the coverage of present child care and early education services	Other
			Child Care Quality and Consumer Education Peters, H. Elizabeth, 2000 Cornell University An assessment and rating of the quality of child care providers in four counties, using structural and process measures, and evaluating the impact of ratings on parent choice and the child care market structure, including supply, prices, and turnover. Ratings are made available to parents, in partnership with resource and referral agencies, and parents are surveyed to explore the types of information used to make child care decisions.	Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
			Child care quality: Does it matter and does it need to be improved? [Executive summary] Vandell, Deborah L., 2000 Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty. A summary of an exploration of an economic justification for the improvement of child care quality	Executive Summary
			Child care quality: An overview for parents Patten, Peggy, 2000 (ERIC Digest No. EDO-PS-00-14). Champaign, IL: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. A primer of childcare quality issues written for parents	Other
			Child care then and now: Child care in King County: 1999-2000 Child Care Resources, June 2000 Bellevue, WA: Child Care Resources. A profile of child care in King County, Washington that analyzes the availability, affordability, and quality of child care available to families from 1999 to 2000	Reports & Papers
			Child care then and now: Child care in King County: 1999-2000 [Executive summary] Child Care Resources, June 2000 Bellevue, WA: Child Care Resources. A summary of a profile of child care in King County, Washington that analyzes the availability, affordability, and quality of child care available to families from 1999 to 2000	Executive Summary
			Child Care Today: Cost and Quality of Family Child Care and Infant/Toddler Care Marshall, Nancy L., 2000 Wellesley College A comparative study of variations in child care quality and cost across types of care, child ages, workforce characteristics, and community/neighborhood factors, using a random sample of 200 family child care homes and 100 centers serving infants and toddlers. This project is part of a larger study funded by the Massachusetts Department of Education.	Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
			Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity Burchinal, Margaret, 2000 Applied Developmental Science, 4(3), 149-165 A study of the influence of poverty, minority ethnic background, gender, and parental authoritarian beliefs on the relationship between child care quality and children�s developmental outcomes	Reports & Papers
			The child's start in day care centre Thyssen, Sven, 2000 Early Child Development and Care, 161(1), 33-46 An observational study of ten children's experiences during their first few months in child care	Reports & Papers
			The cost, quality and child outcomes study: A critique Glantz, Frederic B., 2000 Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates. A critical assessment of the robustness of findings of the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study (Cost, quality and child outcomes in child care centers study (1995) and The child of the cost, quality and child outcomes study go to school (2000)).	Other
			Directiveness in teacher's language input to toddlers and preschoolers in day care Girolametto, Luigi, 2000 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43(5), 1101-1114 An investigation of the correlation between teacher-child directive interaction and child language development, based on a sample of 20 early childhood teachers and their 80 toddler and preschool students in Toronto, Canada	Reports & Papers
			Early care and education: Current issues and future strategies Kagan, Sharon Lynn, 2000 In J. P. Shonkoff & S. J. Meisels (Eds.), Handbook of early childhood intervention (2nd ed., pp. 339-360). New York: Cambridge University Press A compendium of issues surrounding early childhood care and education, with suggestions for strategies for improvement in quality and service delivery	Other
			Early child-care experiences and children's social competence between 1.5 and 15 years of age Campbell, Jim, 2000 Applied Developmental Science, 4(3), 166-175 A longitudinal study on the role of early child care experiences in children�s social development, based on a subsample of 52 children from the Goteborg Child Care study tracked from one-and-a-half to fifteen-years old	Reports & Papers
			Early childhood teachers' beliefs and practices regarding multicultural and antibias education You, Jae-kyung, December 2000 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park An examination of early childhood teachers' beliefs regarding multicultural and anti-bias education, and the relations among teacher beliefs, characteristics, and classroom practices, based on a survey of 86 early childhood teachers, and a case study observation of classroom practice	Reports & Papers
			Early Head Start Family Center of Portland: Summary of results from peer observations of classroom quality Green, Beth L., July 2000 Portland, OR: NPC Research. An assessment of the quality of care in early childhood classrooms in an Early Head Start program in Portland, Oregon, based on classroom observations	Reports & Papers

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