Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families
An interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, analyzing child and family outcomes through the first two years of children's lives.
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Child care choices, consumer education, and low-income families
A policy paper exploring issues surrounding child care choices, consumer advocacy and low-income families
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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
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
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Connected kids at Head Start: Taking office-based violence prevention to the community
A qualitative study of the acceptability and appropriateness of Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure, a violence prevention curriculum for Head Start, based on data from 8 focus groups with 63 parents and family advocates at 2 Head Start centers in Kansas City
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Enhanced Early Head Start with employment services: 42-month impacts from the Kansas and Missouri sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
A study of the impact of a program model that incorporates parental employment and educational services into Early Head Start on service receipt, child care and early education experiences, employment, earnings, household income, parenting practices, parental psychological well-being, and child outcomes, based on data collected from 610 families randomly assigned to treatment or control groups at two pilot sites in Kansas and Missouri
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Family income, parent education, and perceived constraints as predictors of observed program quality and parent rated program quality
A study of the relationship between differences in observed program quality and parent perceived program quality among parents with various family income, parents' education, parents' perceived constraints in selecting child care, and type of selected child care, based on data from 1,313 parents by children in poor, low-income, and non-low-income families in 4 Midwestern state
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Fathering attitudes and practices: Influences on children's development
An investigation into the influence of fathers' parenting beliefs and level of modernity on their children's development, based on a sample of 525 biological fathers and stepfathers participating in the Early Head Start Research and Demonstration Project
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Fathers of U.S. children born in 2001: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
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
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Making a difference in the lives of infants and toddlers and their families: The impacts of Early Head Start: Vol. I. Final technical report
A report of the findings from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a
large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of the impact of Early Head Start programs on the development of infants and toddlers, and the parenting and family development of low-income
families across the US
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Missouri Preschool Project: Parent report
An inquiry into the child care experiences and development of children and families prior to entering kindergarten, based on a survey of 232 parents whose children participated in the Missouri Preschool Program (MPP) and were assessed for a previous study
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Mother-child bookreading in low-income families: Correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life
An investigation of the impact of mother-child book reading on low income young children's cognitive and language development as well as an examination of book reading in relation to the Early Head Start intervention using data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
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National Household Education Surveys program of 2005: After-school programs and activities: 2005
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
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Parental child care selection criteria and program quality in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan communities
A study comparing the child care selection criteria between mothers and fathers and between urban and rural parents, examining the ordering of parents’ chosen selection criteria, and then comparing the parents’ selection criteria with trained observers’ assessments of the quality of care received by the parents’ children
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Parent experiences with state child care subsidy systems and their perceptions of choice and quality in care selected
A study of parents' experiences using Child Care and Development Fund and other state-dispersed child care subsidies, reasons for choosing their current child care program, and perceptions of the quality of child care received from their current program, based on a survey of 659 parents receiving child care subsidies in 4 states
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Parent perceptions of child care choice and quality in four states
A study of parents’ child care perceptions, decision-making factors, and processes in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska
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Perceptions of child care in rural America
An investigation of the beliefs, attitudes, and satisfaction of rural mothers, child care providers, kindergarten teachers and employers regarding various child care, teaching, and parenting issues
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Promoting school readiness: The role of the Parents as Teachers program
An examination of the influence of the Parents as Teachers (PAT) Program on children’s school readiness, based on a sample of 2,375 Missouri kindergarteners, their parents, and their educators
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Public preschool and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of kindergartens into American public schools
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
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Strengthening Latino parental involvement forming community-based organizations/school partnership
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
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Talking about corporal punishment: Nine low-income African American mothers' perspectives
An investigation into the attitudes of African-American mothers on corporal punishment, using qualitative data from interviews with nine low-income African-American mothers
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A two-generational child-focused program enhanced with employment services: Eighteen-month impacts from the Kansas and Missouri sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
Interim findings on the impact of a program model that incorporates parental employment and educational services into Early Head Start on service receipt, child care and early education experiences, employment, earnings, household income, parenting practices, parental psychological well-being, and child outcomes, based on data collected from 610 families randomly assigned to treatment or control groups at two pilot sites in Kansas and Missouri
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