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			2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012 (OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6	Reports & Papers
			Building momentum--taking action: Southern states collaborate on child care financial aid and quality initiatives Southern Regional Initiative on Child Care, 2002 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. A summary of efforts to implement the Southern Regional Task Force on Child Care Action plan to improve access to child care assistance for low income families in the South, based on a survey of Task Force members and summaries of a regional child care forum and state site visits	Reports & Papers
			Child care choices, consumer education, and low-income families Mitchell, Anne W., 1992 New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty A policy paper exploring issues surrounding child care choices, consumer advocacy and low-income families	Reports & Papers
			Child care in rural areas: Top challenges Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states	Reports & Papers
			Child care subsidies, quality of care, and the labor supply of low-income, single mothers Berger, Mark C., 1992 The Review of Economics and Statistics, 74(4), 635-642 A survey of the influence of child care subsidies on the labor supply decisions of low-income single mothers in Kentucky	Reports & Papers
			Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992 Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund A study of the Head Start program�s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group	Reports & Papers
			Child care use by low-income families in rural areas: A contemporary look at the influence of women's work and partner availability Walker, Susan K., 2004 Journal of Children & Poverty, 10(2), 149-167 A descriptive analysis of child care patterns of 323 low-income women living in rural counties, in relation to women's employment status, partner availability, and child age	Reports & Papers
			Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence Barbarin, Oscar, 2006 American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(2), 265-276 An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence	Reports & Papers
			Congruence of parents' and teachers' role perceptions: Preparing Head Start children for kindergarten Machara, Margaret E., 2004 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Kentucky, Lexington A study measuring similarities between low income parents' perceptions of their roles in preparing their preschool children for school and Head Start preschool teachers' perceptions of their roles in promoting their students' school readiness	Reports & Papers
			Current status of parent education programs in Kentucky at the state and local level Rous, Beth, July 2003 Lexington: University of Kentucky, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute. A study of the characteristics and program activities of early childhood programs in Kentucky that offer services and education to parents, based on interviews with program representatives	Reports & Papers
			Early Steps to School Success: Annual evaluation report Brown, Deborah, October, 2010 Westport, CT: Save the Children (U.S.). An evaluation from August 2009 through June 2010 of Early Steps to School Success, a language and literacy development program for children from birth to age 5 and their families, that examines enrollment, retention, participant characteristics, community risk context, services delivered, and both child vocabulary and home literacy outcomes, based on data collected through the program's web-based system for tracking services, child characteristics, and outcomes indicators	Reports & Papers
			Employed rural, low-income, single mothers' family and work over time Son, Seohee, March 2010 Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 31(1), 107-120 A study of perceptions of difficulties and challenges of balancing family, child care, and work responsibilities, based on a secondary analysis of interview data with of 28 rural, low-income, continuously employed, and single mothers across 11 states over three waves of data collection between 1999 and 2003, who took part in the longitidunal Rural Families Speak Project	Reports & Papers
			Family-school connectedness and children's early social development Serpell, Zewelanji Natashya, February, 2012 Social Development, 21(1), 21-46 An examination of the relationship between the qualities of family-school interactions and teacher ratings of child social abilities, and an examination of the moderating influences of family characteristics, based on data collected from 2966 children, their parents, their preschool teachers, and some of their kindergarten teachers	Reports & Papers
			Fathers of U.S. children born in 2001: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) Avenilla, Frank, July 2006 (E.D. Tab, NCES 2006-002). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. Findings from a survey of biological fathers of sampled children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), including data on fathers' demographic characteristics, attitudes about fathering, and involvement in child care	Reports & Papers
			Kentucky STARS for KIDS NOW process evaluation: Findings from the Kentucky Early Care and Education and School-Age Care Household Survey Starr, Rebecca, January, 2012 (Evaluation Brief No. 8). Washington, DC: Child Trends. A study of Kentucky households' child care use, selection, options, and expenses, based on interviews with 501 randomly selected Kentucky households with children who are 12 years old or younger and in child care	Reports & Papers
			Labor force supply decisions of rural low-income mothers Mammen, Sheila, March, 2009 Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 30(1), 67-79 A microeconomic study of the associations between both rural low income mothers' decision to work and number of hours worked and mother's individual characteristics, household characteristics, human capital, various household income sources including participation in child care assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit, and local economic conditions, based on data from 412 families from 23 counties in 13 states	Reports & Papers
			Locked doors: States struggling to meet the child care needs of low-income working families Adams, Gina, 1998 Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund A study on the demand for affordable quality childcare in the United States	Reports & Papers
			Maternal grandmothers as child care providers for rural, low-income mothers: A unique child care arrangement Reschke, Kathy L., 2006 Journal of Children & Poverty, 12(2), 159-174 An examination of the positive and challenging aspects of grandmothers providing child care for their grandchildren, investigating the experiences of the grandmothers as well as the effects on the sample of low income mothers from rural communities	Reports & Papers
			National Household Education Surveys program of 2005: After-school programs and activities: 2005 Carver, Priscilla R., 2006 (E.D. TAB, NCES 2006-076). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. An examination of data from the After-School Programs and Activities survey on the participation of kindergarteners through eighth graders in after school programs, with discussion of the survey�s design, the different types of after school care, their participation rates, and the expenses surrounding various types of after school care	Reports & Papers
			Parental conceptions of school readiness: Relation to ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and children�s skills Barbarin, Oscar, September 2008 Early Education and Development, 19(5), 671-701 A study of the family demographic characteristics and child skills associated with parental conceptions of school readiness, based on interviews with 452 parents of 4-year-olds enrolled public prekindergarten programs	Reports & Papers
			Public preschool and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of kindergartens into American public schools Cascio, Elizabeth, 2006 (NBER Working Paper Series No. 12179). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. A comparative analysis of the effect of the availability of public kindergarten programs on the employment patterns of women with five-year-old children, using data from the 1950 through 1990 Decennial Censuses	Reports & Papers
			Strengthening Latino parental involvement forming community-based organizations/school partnership Osterling, Jorge P, 2004 NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2(1), 270-284 A discussion of the use of partnerships between schools and Latino community-based organizations to improve the involvement of Latino parents in children�s schooling	Reports & Papers

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