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2012 London childcare report An examination of child care supply, demand, and prices in London, United Kingdom |
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4Children children's centres interim impact report: What impact do our centres have on the lives and outcomes of children and families? An examination of service provision in and outcomes for communities served by 4 children's centers, which offer integrated, comprehensive early childhood and family services in England, based on analyses of administrative data and inspection reports |
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The ABC Daycare disaster of Hermosillo, Mexico On June 5, 2009, the ABC Daycare facility in Hermosillo, Mexico, caught on fire with an estimated 142 children and 6 adult caregivers inside. The purpose of this article is to describe the factors contributing to the disaster including care of the survivors, tertiary burn center triage, patient transport, and treatment for this international mass casualty event. Finally, the results of an investigation performed by the Mexican Government are reviewed. A summary of the Mexican Government's investigation of the circumstances of fire and an examination of prevention lapses in other Mexican daycare centers was obtained from their public Web site. The demographic and clinical characteristics of the children transported to the burn center were obtained from the patients' medical records and transport data sheets. The ABC Daycare had many fire safety breaches that contributed to the severity of the tragedy. Twenty-nine children died at the scene and more than 35 children were hospitalized throughout Mexico. A total of 12 children were transported to two Shriners Hospitals, 9 to Sacramento, and 3 to Cincinnati. The mean age of patients sent to the Shriners Hospitals was 2.9 +/- 0.16 years (2-4 years), with 5 being male and 7 female. The mean duration between injury and arrival was 9.2 +/- 2.1 days, the burn size was 43.0 +/- 6.8% TBSA (6.5-80%), and there were 3.75 operations per patient. Four had fourth-degree burns requiring finger amputations (2), flaps to cover bone (1), or a through-knee amputation (1). Ten patients were admitted to the intensive care unit, and nine patients (seven with inhalation injury) required mechanical ventilation for a mean of 23.6 +/- 10.3 days. All the surviving children were discharged after a mean length of stay of 45.9 +/- 8.7 days. In the first year postinjury, seven children were readmitted a total of 11 times for reconstructive surgery, wound care, or rehabilitation. Ultimately, a total of 49 children died. A review of other daycare centers in Mexico revealed similar safety lapses that could lead to future major disasters. This burn disaster in Hermosillo was potentially preventable with adherence to standard prevention principals. The young age of the victims and the need for an international medical response posed special problems. Prevention efforts need to be improved to prevent future disasters in Mexico. (author abstract) |
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Access to preprimary education and progression in primary school: Evidence from rural Guatemala Evidence on the impacts of a large-scale expansion in public preprimary education is limited and mostly circumscribed to high and middle-income countries. This paper estimates the effects of such an expansion on progression in primary school in rural communities of Guatemala. Combining administrative and population census data in a difference-in-difference framework, the paper examines a large-scale construction program that increased the number of preprimaries from around 5,300 to 11,500 between 1998 and 2005. The results indicate that the program increased by 2.1 percentage points the fraction of students that progress adequately and attend sixth grade by age 12. These positive effects are heavily concentrated among girls. (author abstract) |
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Access to preschool education in the year before full-time school An examination of variations in child care arrangements in Australia by child sociodemographic characteristics, based on data for 5,872 4- and 5-year-old children from two cohorts of the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children |
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Accompaniment and quality in childcare services: The emergence of a culture of professionalization A case study of a professional development initiative that takes into consideration freedom of movement for children birth through 3 years as a quality indicator in daily educational practice, based on data from a rural setting in the French Community of Belgium in Luxembourg Province from 2004 to 2009 |
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Action research to address the transition from kindergarten to primary school: Children's authentic learning, construction play, and pretend play An identification of transition issues of concern to both parents and their children who were transitioning from kindergarten to first grade, based on data from 10 parents and their 5 children in a suburban kindergarten in Singapore who had graduated, an action research project on the development of a learning experience to prepare children to purchase food at the primary school cafeteria where they were transitioning to, and an account of an action plan to implement the project that included a field trip to the primary school where they purchased food in the cafeteria, based on data from 14 5- to 6-year-old children and their 11 parents |
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Adolescent emotional and behavioural outcomes of nonparental preschool childcare An examination of the relationship between nonparental early child care and adolescent mental health outcomes, based on a secondary analysis of data from 197 participants in the Croydon Assessment of Learning Study in the United Kingdom |
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The advocacy of educators: Perspectives from early childhood A phenomenological study of early childhood educators' perceptions of the relationship between advocacy and professional status among multiple stakeholders in diverse contexts, based on data from 12 educators working full time in child care settings across Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Analysis of breastfeeding policies and practices in childcare centres in Adelaide, South Australia A study of director or director designee perceptions towards breastfeeding practice and support within child care centers and the relationship of those perceptions to policy, based on data from 15 child care centers in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
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Anchoring in 4- to 6-year-old children relates to predictors of reading Two studies of anchoring--a process that allows individuals to implicitly benefit from contextual information embedded in sequences of stimuli--one that examines the relationship between anchoring and rapid naming and phonological short-term memory in children prior to the onset of formal reading instruction, and a second study that examines the unique contribution that anchoring makes to performance in two early predictors of reading--letter knowledge and phonological awareness--with the first study based on data from 55 children attending municipal preschools in and around Haifa, Israel, and the second study based on data from 69 native Hebrew-speaking children attending municipal preschools in Northern Israel |
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Assessing the prevalence of mental health disorders and mental health needs among preschool children in care in England An identification of the prevalence of mental health and developmental disorders along with the corresponding need for interventions for children in care in England, based on data from 43 birth- through 5-year-olds removed from their families and placed in local authority care in England and their caregivers |
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Attention and attachment related behavior toward professional caregivers in child care centers: A new measure for toddlers A psychometric study of the reliability and validity of the Toddler Attention Questionnaire (TAQ) that includes an examination of the association of toddler attention and attachment security to professional caregivers, based on data from 72 20- through 36-months-old Italian children in Italy |
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Attributes of child care centers and outdoor play areas associated with preschoolers' physical activity and sedentary behavior An examination of the association between characteristics of child care centers and both children's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sedentary behavior, as well as a study of the attributes of outdoor play areas associated with the same behaviors during outdoor time, based on data from 89 3- to 5-year-olds from 10 child care centers in Brisbane, Australia |
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Behind before they begin: The challenge of early childhood education in rural China An examination of early childhood education (ECE) service delivery in China's poor rural areas that includes student participation rates, student teacher ratio, ECE teacher training, overall quality of the facilities, and child school readiness, and an examination of the relationship between ECE participation and school readiness, based on data from 82 ECE centers in rural villages and 492 households in six counties across three provinces in China |
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The beliefs of teachers and daycare staff regarding children of divorce: A Q methodological study A study of staff opinions about typical behaviors of young children in child care settings whose parents experience divorce or separation, based on a survey of 33 early educators in Norway |
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A better beginning: Easing the cost of childcare A presentation of a policy proposal for public child care support in the United Kingdom and an analysis of fiscal models of the policy and a poll of 502 parents to gauge interest in the policy |
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A better beginning: Easing the cost of childcare [Executive summary] A summary of a presentation of a policy proposal for public child care support in the United Kingdom and an analysis of fiscal models of the policy and a poll of 502 parents to gauge interest in the policy |
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Better serving our children: An action plan for increasing volunteering in the early years and childcare sector An examination of patterns of parent and community volunteering in early childhood settings in the United Kingdom, with a discussion of the benefits of and strategies to support volunteering, based on a survey of 2,000 pregnant women and mothers of infants and on interviews and a roundtable with stakeholders |
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Better serving our children: An action plan for increasing volunteering in the early years and childcare sector [Executive summary] A summary of an examination of patterns of parent and community volunteering in early childhood settings in the United Kingdom, with a discussion of the benefits of and strategies to support volunteering, based on a survey of 2,000 pregnant women and mothers of infants and on interviews and a roundtable with stakeholders |
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Beyond the preschool years: Children's perceptions about starting kindergarten An investigation of preschool children's perceptions about transitions to kindergarten, based on data from focus group discussions with 33 3- and 4-year-old children in Canada |
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Breaking the cycle of deprivation: An experimental evaluation of an early childhood intervention Baseline findings on parental sociodemographics, maternal well-being, maternal health and pregnancy, parenting, social support, and service use from an experimental evaluation in Dublin, Ireland, of Preparing for Life, a comprehensive school readiness intervention for at risk families and children from birth until school entry, based on data collected from 205 randomly-assigned high- and low-treatment participants and from 99 comparison participants |
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Budget 2013: Analysis An overview of provisions related to early care and education in the 2013 budget for Ireland |
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Can't buy mommy's love?: Universal childcare and children's long-term cognitive development A comparison of the language and math performance at age 15 of children who were 3 years old either before or after the implementation of universal child care for 3-year-old children in their respective region of Spain, based on data for Spain from the 2003, 2006, and 2009 waves of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), a cross-national assessment of skills and knowledge |
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Care or cash?: The effect of child care subsidies on student performance A study of the influence on children's junior high school academic performance of variations in household child care expenses produced by income-based eligibility cutoffs for municipal child care subsidies, based on a national longitudinal administrative data set from Norway |
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