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			An analysis of a public school prekindergarten Montessori bilingual program Rodriguez, Linda, 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX An analysis of second grade reading achievement scores of Spanish and English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	Reports & Papers
			Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 1. Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002 Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 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	Reports & Papers
			Balancing Work and Family During Children's First Three Years Bozzi, Laurie, 2002 Harvard University A secondary analysis of data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care, consisting of two phases. Phase one explores the relationship between mothers' number of work hours and responsiveness to their children, and how this relationship is moderated by child care quality. Phase two examines how employed mothers balance work and family roles, and how the two are moderated by child care quality.	Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
			''Being there'': Mothers who stay at home, gender and time Boyd, Elizabeth R., 2002 Women's Studies International Forum, 25(4), 463-470 An 1997 through 1998 Australian investigation of 20 mothers choosing stay at home child care living in predominantly middle class suburbs	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 and inequality: Re-thinking carework for children and youth Cancian, Francesca M., 2002 New York: Routledge An anthology of papers presented at the first annual Carework Network conference in 2000	Other
			Child care arrangements among low-income families: A qualitative approach Chaudry, Ajay, 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA An examination of child care arrangements among families in low-income urban neighborhoods, using longitudinal data from interviews with 42 mothers of preschool children in New York City	Reports & Papers
			Child care choices for working families: Examining child care choices of Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union Local 2 members working in San Francisco's hospitality industry King, Carlise, 2002 San Francisco: California Child Care Resource and Referral Network. (No longer accessible as of October 11, 2012). A study examining the links between parental employment schedules, care decisions, cost of child care and demographics amongst members in Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Local 2 of San Francisco and their children	Reports & Papers
			Child care choices for working families: Examining child care choices of Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union Local 2 members working in San Francisco's hospitality industry [Executive summary] King, Carlise, 2002 San Francisco: California Child Care Resource and Referral Network. A summary of a study examining the links between parental employment schedules, care decisions, cost of child care and demographics amongst members in Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Local 2 of San Francisco and their children	Executive Summary
			Child care: Funding and spending under federal block grants Gish, Melinda, 2002 (Order Code RL31274). Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service. An analysis of the recent changes, current expenditures, and additional need for federal child care funding for low income families	Other
			Child care: Needs of working mothers Georgia State University. Health Policy Center, 2002 Atlanta: Georgia State University, Health Policy Center. A study of low-income working mothers� child care arrangements and its link to access to child care subsidies, with findings collected from two focus groups of a total of 21 low-income mothers on waiting lists for state child care subsidies	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care subsidies, wages, and employment of single mothers Tekin, Erdal, 2002 Unpublished manuscript, Georgia State University, Atlanta An analysis of the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment and child care decisions among single mothers in the early post-welfare reform period, using data from the National Survey of America's Families	Reports & Papers
			Child-care usage and mother-infant ''quality time'' Booth-LaForce, Cathryn L., 2002 Journal of Marriage and the Family, 64(1), 16-26 A study of mother�s time use and mother-infant interaction in families where infants spent more than 30 hours pet week in child care vs. 0 hours per week from birth to age 6 months	Reports & Papers
			Children and welfare reform: Issues and ideas: A guide for policymakers and journalists Center for the Future of Children, 2002 Los Altos, CA: David and Lucile Packard Foundation. A summarization of the difficulties facing low income families in respect to education of parents and children, wages, child care availability and quality, and the availability of state and federal financial assistance	Other
			Data for community planning: 2000 Oregon population estimates & survey findings Oregon Childhood Care and Education Data Project, 2002 Albany, OR: Linn-Benton Community College, Family Resources and Education Division. A study of the costs and demand for child care in Oregon	Reports & Papers
			Describing Head Start family service workers: An examination of factors related to job satisfaction, empowerment, and multiculturalism Franze, Sarah, 2002 Families in Society, 83(3), 257-264 A study of the relationship between personal and employment characteristics and job satisfaction, empowerment and multicultural sensitivity among family service workers in Head Start programs.	Reports & Papers
			Early Head Start: Home visiting and parenting group program uptake: An implementation study Rector-Staerkel, Edna J. (Fredi), 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle A case study designed to examine Early Head Start home visiting services, investigating how these services are impacted by other parenting services and context of service delivery; frequency and duration of parent participation are also studied	Reports & Papers
			The effect of increasing welfare mothers' education on their young children's academic problems and school readiness Magnuson, Katherine A., 2002 Chicago: Joint Center for Poverty Research. A study on the effects of the educational level of a low-income mother on a child�s academic and behavioral school readiness using a sample of families eligible for the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training, from Atlanta, Georgia, Grand Rapids, Michigan and Riverside, California, along with data from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies Child Outcomes Study (NEWWS-COS)	Reports & Papers
			The effects of parent program involvement and mathematics enrichment on preschooler's mathematics readiness skills Waller, Rhonda R., 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Howard University, Washington, DC An investigation of how preschool children's mathematics readiness skills are affected by parent involvement in prekindergarten programs and a mathematics enrichment intervention	Reports & Papers
			Emergent literacy and school readiness: Perspectives of parents and staff in an Akimel O'otham Head Start Center Chadwick, Deborah L., 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University, Phoenix An interview based study of American Indian Head Start parents' and teachers' views on the meaning of emergent literacy and how they perceive its value as related to school readiness	Reports & Papers
			Engaging fathers: Issues and considerations for early childhood educators Ray, Aisha, 2002 YC: Young Children, 57(6), 32-42 A consideration of issues faced by fathers involved in the care, development, and education of their preschool-age children, and the implications of this involvement for early childhood educators	Other
			An examination of child care subsidies and their impact on families with infants and toddlers Brookes, Sheila J., 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri--Columbia A qualitative investigation of the influence of child care subsidy policy on the lives of low-income parents and families, based on interviews with parents receiving Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), Early Head Start and Head Start professionals, administrators, and social service professionals	Reports & Papers
			Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts Huston, Aletha C., 2002 (The Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 9). New York: MDRC. A study of the impact of family and child characteristics on low income parents' use of child care, child care quality and receipt of child care subsidies.	Reports & Papers
			Fathers and father figures of Head Start children: A study of the effects of involvement on children's socioemotional development Gorvine, Benjamin J., 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor An examination of father involvement in the Head Start program, focusing on predictors of father involvement and the effects of involvement on Head Start children's socioemotional development	Reports & Papers
			Fathers and public policy: Recent policies promoting responsible fatherhood Fagan, Jay, 2002 In C. J. Groark, K. E. Mehaffie, R. B. McCall, M. T. Greenberg, & Universities Children's Policy Collaborative (Eds.), From science to policy: Research on issues, programs and policies in early care and education. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Governor's Task Force on Early Childhood Education. (No longer accessible as of January 18, 2013). A discussion of public policies regarding fatherhood and fathers? involvement in children?s lives both nationally and in Pennsylvania	Other

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