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Evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative: Final evaluation report
Quick, Heather, 12 January, 2011
Los Angeles: First 5 LA.

Findings from an eight-year process and outcome evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, a comprehensive program to promote literacy among low-income families in Los Angeles County, that examines both program characteristics and quality and both child and parent school participation and literacy outcomes

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Evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative: Final evaluation report [Executive summary]
Quick, Heather, 12 January, 2011
Los Angeles: First 5 LA.

A summary of findings from an eight-year process and outcome evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, a comprehensive program to promote literacy among low-income families in Los Angeles County, that examines both program characteristics and quality and both child and parent school participation and literacy outcomes

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Networks of attachment relationships in low-income children of Mexican heritage: Infancy through preschool
Howes, Carollee, November 2009
Social Development, 18(4), 896-914

A longitudinal exploration of attachment relationships between caregivers and children in families of Mexian heritage, based on a subsample of 83 children and their mothers who participated in a larger study and self-identified themselves as being of Mexican origin

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New child-caregiver attachment relationships: Entering childcare when the caregiver is and is not an ethnic match
Howes, Carollee, November 2006
Social Development, 15(4), 574-590

An examination of behavior, perception, and ethnic or racial matches between caregivers and children, upon the latter’s first entrance into center based child care, as predictors of attachment relationship quality measured six months later

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Processes in the formation of attachment relationships with alternative caregivers
Howes, Carollee, 2001
In A. Goncu & E. L. Klein (Eds.), Children in play, story, and school (pp. 267-287). New York: Guilford Press

An examination of the development of attachment relationships in 10 children, ages 15 to 28 months, living with biological parents who were observed over a 6-month period divided into four periods spaced out over the child’s initial time in child care

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Program practices, caregiver stability, and child-caregiver relationships
Ritchie, Sharon, 2003
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 24(5), 497-516

An examination of child care program practices, caregiver behaviors, and classroom environments associated with the development of positive child caregiver relationships

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Quality of prekindergarten: What families are looking for in public sponsored programs
Barbarin, Oscar, 2006
Early Education and Development, 17(4), 619-642

A description of the meaning of program quality for a representative group of parents of children enrolled in public prekindergarten programs, with a comparison of educators’ and families’ concepts of quality

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The study of children in family child care and relative care: Highlights of findings
Galinsky, Ellen, 1994
New York, NY: Families and Work Institute.

A presentation of findings from a study on parents' definition of quality in informal child care settings, and an examination of how those measure identified impact quality, based on a sample of 820 mothers, 225 children, and 226 child care providers from San Fernando/Los Angeles, California, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, and Charlotte North Carolina

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Teacher-articulated perceptions & practices with families: Examining effective teaching in diverse high quality child care settings
Shivers, Eva Marie, 2004
Early Education and Development, 15(2), 167-186

An observational study of high quality child care centers, examining effective teaching strategies through researching associations among teachers' perceptions about families, their involvement with the families, and their background characteristics

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