Attunement between parents and professional caregivers: A comparison of childrearing attitudes in different child-care settings
A study from the Netherlands of the attunement of childrearing attitudes between parents and non-parental caregivers in four settings: day care, after-school care, family-based day care, and babysitter care; the perceptions of their relationship to one another and to the child is presented from an ecological systems perspective
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Background report from Norway: OECD thematic review of early childhood education and care policy
A compilation of information on child care and early education policies, funding, quality, equity, availability, workforce, family roles, and environmental influences in Norway, prepared as part of a cross-national review by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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The benefits and costs of good child care: The economic rationale for public investment in young children: A policy study
A study that utilizes economic theory to argue for publicly funded child care programs
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Care of children in a low fertility setting: Transitions between home and market care for pre-school children in Germany
An analysis of the demand for child care for preschool children in Germany as it relates to household characteristics, the mother’s employment status, and regional supply
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Care programs for school age children in Australia
A discussion of out-of-school child care programs for children between 5 and 12 years of age in Australia
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Cash versus child care services in Finland
An overview of the benefits and broad implications of Finland’s universal child care subsidy policy implemented in 1990, and a study into the causes of its 1995 cutback
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Child-care: The changing boundaries of family, economy and state
A study of the effects of child care and family-friendly policies on women’s economic independence in the United Kingdom
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Child care outcomes: Economic perspectives and issues
An analysis of social child care in the United Kingdom from an economic perspective
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Child day care provision: Explaining local variation
An examination of the variations in child care provision and policy influences among British local authorities
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Child day care services and parents' satisfaction with them
An examination of children’s child care arrangements from the point of view of a retrospective longitudinal study conducted in Finland, as well as a determination of parents’ satisfaction with child care arrangements
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Comparing developmental outcomes for children in care with those for other children in Canada
A study of the test-retest reliability and convergent validity of single items from the Assessment and Action Record, including comparison of the developmental outcomes of 43 children cared for by the Canadian child welfare agency and those of an approximate comparison group of 1600 children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
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Early childhood services for kindergarten-age children in four Canadian provinces: Scope, nature and models for the future
An observational and interview-based study of early child care education programs in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta to describe and analyze current conditions of child care programs and to explore parent and teachers' views of future prospects for the programs
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Early childhood services for kindergarten-age children in four Canadian provinces: Scope, nature and models for the future [Executive summary]
A summary of an observational and interview-based study of early child care education programs in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta to describe and analyze current conditions of child care programs and to explore parent and teachers' views of future prospects for the programs
Executive Summary
Education and care away from home: A review of research, policy and practice
A review of research and policies concerning children in United Kingdom’s educational and child care system, focusing on the influence of both education and social work in improving children’s educational opportunities
Literature Review
The effect of distributive justice on willingness to pay for municipality child care: An extension of the GEF hypothesis
A Swedish study assessing public-goods dilemmas, self-interest versus common welfare, as it relates to distributive justice principles and their convergence’s affects on individuals’ willingness to pay for child care social services in hypothetical societies
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Effects of an extensive program for stimulating phonological awareness in preschool children
A longitudinal study of a training program consisting of metalinguistic games and exercises with the purpose of stimulating phonological awareness in Danish preschool children over an eight-month period
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Evaluating rural preschool speech-language services: Consumer satisfaction
A survey-based investigation of parent satisfaction with speech-language services provided for their preschool children with special needs in a rural area of Canada, focusing on parent satisfaction with intervention format, parent support, and convenience of service
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Grandparents' and parents' views about their family and children's adjustment to kindergarten
A study examining how certain characteristics of parents, maternal, and paternal grandparents might affect children's transition to kindergarten
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Helping mothers to combine paid and unpaid work: Or fighting unemployment?: The ambiguities of French family policy
A discussion of French policies on subsidizing child care and providing financial benefits discouraging mothers from participating in the workplace
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Home literacy: Opportunity, instruction, cooperation and social-emotional quality predicting early reading achievement
An analysis of the relationship between home literacy and school achievement among multiethnic, partly bilingual families with 4-year-old children living in the urban areas in the Netherlands
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Improving the quality of childcare provision through self-assessment: Organizational characteristics of nurseries as predictors of the ability to plan and implement change
A study of center-based child care centers in England and the effort to raise standards and improve childcare quality through establishing a self-assessment mechanism, thereby creating a basis for evaluation of child care settings throughout the nation
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The influence of researcher-teacher collaboration on the effectiveness of the early learning of four year olds in schools in England
A study of the importance of the relationship between teachers and children on the emotional well being and effective early learning ability of the four year old child in Birmingham, England
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Informing ourselves about early childhood services
A discussion of the inadequacy of information on child care supply, demand, and workforce, as well as on parents' perspectives about services in the United Kingdom and its effects on child care policy and practice.
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An innovation in Morocco's Koranic preschools
A description of the Alliance de Travail dans la Formation et l'Action pour l'Enfance's (ATFALE) teacher training project in Koranic preschools in Morocco, emphasizing socioeconomic factors and cultural norms that influence children’s educational needs
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Leaving children unattended at home: Decision-making on the use of self-care in Hong Kong
An examination of the decisions made by low-income mothers from Hong Kong on the use of self-care
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