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The Child Care Self-Sufficiency Scale: Measuring child care funding and policy generosity across states
Tvedt, Karen, 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Portland State University, OR

The development of a composite measure of state generosity entitled the Child Care Self-Sufficiency Scale (CCSS), an examination of the relationship between the CCSS and state funding and policy indicators, the relationship between CCSS and political ideology, partisanship, wealth, and race/ethnicity, and an investigation of the relationship between the CCSS and differences in the characteristics of families, child care subsidy use, and type of care, from a secondary analysis of state-generated Child Care Development Fund data

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Low-income African American parents’ views about the value of play for their preschool age children in Head Start
Muhammad, Yvonne Jean, October 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Florida State University, Tallahassee

A qualitative study of 12 low-income African American mothers' beliefs about the value of play and its relationship to language development, critical thinking, and social competencies of their children attending Head Start in central Florida

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Novel word learning of preschoolers enrolled in Head Start regular and bilingual classrooms: Impact of adult vocabulary noneliciting questions during shared storybook reading
Walsh, Bridget A., August 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Texas Woman's University, Denton

An examination of the effect of eliciting and noneliciting questions during shared storybook reading on children's expressive and receptive knowledge of target words and on two measures of vocabulary with 45 children enrolled in monolingual Head Start classrooms and an examination of the effect of eliciting and noneliciting questions during storybook reading and parental home language use on expressive and receptive Spanish and English vocabulary of 28 children enrolled in English-Spanish bilingual Head Start classrooms

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