Challenges and strategies for early childhood special education services in Florida's rural schools: A DELPHI study
A study identifying the problems facing rural educational service providers that hinder their ability to serve special needs children 3 to 5 years of age, utilizing the Delphi technique, which incorporated two rounds of questionnaires to generate responses and develop agreement from a panel of rural service providers in Florida
Reports & Papers
Characteristics of families enrolled in an isolated, mountain Head Start program: Managing social capital
A study of Head Start participating families in a geographically-isolated community in California, identifying their educational, religious, financial and neighborhood characteristics
Reports & Papers
Child care and early education: Satisfaction with services among rural families
An inquiry into the satisfaction of parents with the service provision early childhood education and care programs, based on a survey of 65 families in rural areas, assessed using a 5-point Likert scale
Reports & Papers
Child care and transportation strategies for rural communities: Meeting the welfare reform challenge
A compilation of child care and transportation strategies for community leaders, state officials, and national representatives involved in rural areas, emphasizing assisting individuals in their transition from welfare-to-work by providing them reliable and affordable access to child care
Other
Child care for welfare participants in rural areas
A brief on the child care arrangements of the rural population.
Fact Sheets & Briefs
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
Reports & Papers
Child care needs of farm families
A discussion of desirable characteristics of child care services from the perspective of families working on farms, and recommendations for structuring and funding such services
Other
Child Care Subsidy Use and the Relationship to Parental Work and Child Care Quality in Rural Communities
The purpose of this project is to understand how low-income rural families use child care subsidies, the quality of care they receive, and how subsidy use is related to child outcomes and parental work conditions. The project addresses these topics with data from the Family Life Project. The research questions include: (1) What percentage of rural families who are income-eligible for subsidies and use child care take up subsidies, and do the arrangements they make differ from (a) economically disadvantaged families who do not use subsidies; (b) economically advantaged families using child care?; (2) How do the work conditions of families who take-up child care subsidies differ from those who do not? Specifically, is job quality higher and more stable (e.g. more flexible, fewer turnovers, provide benefits, higher wages, more stable work hours)?; and (3) Is context, as measured by neighborhood disadvantage and geographic isolation, related to subsidy take-up?
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Crisis child care: Implications for family interventions
A rural study of parent crisis child care service use and reported incidence of child maltreatment for parents accessing those services
Reports & Papers
The cross-border rural childcare project
A description of the project objectives and planning phases of the Cross-Border Rural Childcare Project (CBRCP), designed to develop and implement child care programs in rural areas of Ireland
Other
An examination of family-school partnership initiatives in rural prekindergarten programs
An exploratory study examining effective family school partnerships and successful strategies for helping families become involved in state-funded rural prekindergarten programs designed for children who are identified as being at risk for future academic failure
Reports & Papers
Family-focused rural early intervention personnel preparation: Family stories and student development
A study of the educational and developmental process for early intervention practitioners in family-focused early interventions in rural settings, using ethnographic and case study research methods
Reports & Papers
Grandmothers as child care givers: A unique childcare arrangement
A discussion of working mothers in poor rural areas with limited access to childcare, focusing on the benefits and challenges of relying on grandmother care for their children, based on interviews with 42 women
Other
Identifying and meeting the school-age child care needs of rural families
A study of rural families’ child care needs for their school-aged children concentrating on the types of child care available, the barriers encountered in arranging child care, and the circumstances that lead them to avail themselves of child care
Reports & Papers
Maternal grandmothers as child care providers for rural, low-income mothers: A unique child care arrangement
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
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
Reports & Papers
Parent education in Washington State Even Start family literacy programs
An examination of parent education practices in Washington State's Even Start program, comparing the differences between urban and rural programs
Reports & Papers
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
Reports & Papers
Reconceptualising child care in rural areas: Meeting the needs?
An assessment of child care service needs and expectations among rural families in remote areas of Victoria, Australia
Reports & Papers
[Review of the book Contemporary parenting: Challenges and issues, of the book Who will mind the baby?: Geographies of child care and working mothers, and of the book Feminism and families]
Book Reviews
[Review of the book Who will mind the baby?: Geographies of child care and working mothers]
Book Reviews
[Review of the book Who will mind the baby?: Geographies of child care and working mothers]
Book Reviews
Rural and urban families' use of child care
A comparison of the child care arrangements and hours of rural and urban families, based on telephone interviews
Reports & Papers
Rural children at a glance
Research on health, achievement and socioeconomic trends in children from rural families in the United States
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Rural families choose home-based child care for their preschool-aged children
An analysis of the child care arrangements of rural children under five years old based on the nationally representative Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 2001 Panel
Fact Sheets & Briefs
