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A 21st Century Community Learning Center: A case study of collaboration and partnerships A case study examining the amount of collaboration between a 21st Century Community Learning Center after school program and the cooperating stakeholders, investigating the effect of collaboration on the community outside of the school and on the children participating in the program |
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Accessing and affording child care and low-income mothers' employment over time: An ecological approach A study of the influence of child problem behaviors and maternal risk factors on low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, an examination of family income as a mediator of the relationships between child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors and low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, and an examination of the relationships between low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care and family income, child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors, and ability to obtain and maintain employment |
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Adjustment to motherhood in low-income urban adolescents: The role of social support from child care providers A study of high school-based child care and its influence on urban, African-American first-time adolescent mothers, focusing on their adjustments to motherhood and the quality and role of adolescents’ relationship with the school staff and Teen Parent Centers (TPC) child care providers |
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Adolescents assuming adult roles: Factors associated with teens providing child care for younger siblings A study examining patterns of adolescent sibling child care usage by single- and two-parent families, using data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) |
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African American and Puerto Rican American parenting styles, paternal involvement, and Head Start children's social competence A comparison of African-American and Puerto Rican-American parenting styles and paternal involvement, and an examination of the relationship of mother’s and father’s parenting styles and child care involvement on Head Start participating children’s social competence |
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After preschool inclusion: Children's educational pathways over the early school years A longitudinal interview-based study of factors influencing families' decisions to place young children with disabilities in inclusion programs |
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After-school programs, antisocial behavior, and positive youth development: An exploration of the relationship between program implementation and changes in youth behavior A National Survey of the activity patterns of American parents and on how they divide their time among work, household tasks, child care, and leisure activities and information on feelings about various parenting activities was also ascertained |
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After-school programs in Koreatown, Los Angeles, California An exploration of after school programs in Koreatown in Los Angeles, examining what constitutes a program, why parents send their children, and why children attend these programs |
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An analysis of parental attitudes toward child care arrangements in urban Chinese families A study of the relationship between parental attitudes and parenting practices based on child care arrangements in the People’s Republic of China |
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An analysis of a public school prekindergarten Montessori bilingual program An analysis of second grade reading achievement scores of Spanish and English norm-referenced tests between children who participated in a Montessori bilingual program and those that attended a traditional bilingual program |
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Assembly Bill 563: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: Building a foundation for school readiness and success in K-12 and beyond: FY 2009-10 final evaluation report An evaluation of the Nevada publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examines program characteristics and quality, explores the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year, and compares third and fifth grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants |
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Assembly Bill 627: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: Building a foundation for school readiness and success in K-12 and beyond: FY 2008-09 final evaluation report An evaluation of the Nevada publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examines program characteristics and quality, explores the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year, and compares second and fourth grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants |
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Assembly Bill 627: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: FY 2007-08 final evaluation report An evaluation of the Nevada publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examined the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year and compared first and third grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants |
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An assessment of a home-visiting intervention on rural, low-income children's school readiness An examination of the relationship between infant and family participation in a home visiting program and later school readiness and parental knowledge of infant development |
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Associations among family environment, sustained attention, and school readiness for low-income children A study of sustained attention as a mediator of the relationship between family environment and school readiness, based on data from 1,046 low income children, with family environment data collected at 3-years-old and both attention and school readiness data collected at 5-years of age |
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Asymmetric information and the child care market A study using data from the Child Care Programs of Excellence (CCPOE) project to examine which types of providers are more likely to participate in a voluntary quality rating system, and the significance of quality in parents' decisions about child care arrangements |
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Atypical working hours: Consequences for childcare arrangements An inquiry into the child care arrangements and work-life balance of families with parents who work atypical hours, based on a subsample of 12 families from France, Finland, and Portugal from the SOCCARE Project |
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Australia's child care subsidies: A distributional analysis An investigation into the distribution of child care subsidies across different types of families, based on a simulation of child care utilization, using information from the Department of Human Services and Health in England |
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Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 1. Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in Australia, Denmark, and the Netherlands affect parents trying to balance work and family life |
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Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 2. Austria, Ireland and Japan An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in Austria, Japan, and the Republic of Ireland affect parents trying to balance work and family life |
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Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 3. New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in New Zealand, Portugal, and Switzerland affect parents trying to balance work and family life |
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Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 4. Canada, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in Canada, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom affect parents trying to balance work and family life |
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Balancing the family budget: Differences in childcare expenditures by race/ethnicity, economic status, and family structure A study on factors affecting child care expenditures within families with children under five using data from the 1990 National Child Care Survey |
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Balancing work and family in the first four and a half years of life A set of two longitudinal analyses of data from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care (NICHD SECC). The first analysis investigates the effects of maternal employment, work/family attitudes, and childcare on mothers’ responsiveness to their children in the first four years of their children’s lives; the second analysis examines changes in mothers’ perceptions of the relative rewards and strains of being employed during their children’s first three years of life. |
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Before Head Start: Income and ethnicity, family characteristics, child care experiences, and child development [Abridged] A description of demographic, family context, income, and developmental characteristics of Head Start children and their families at 3 years of age, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care |
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