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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Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX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

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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

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Child care expenses of America's families
Giannarelli, Linda, 2000
(Occasional Paper No. 40). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

A study of the child care expenses of working families with children under age 13, with particular attention to low-income families.

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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

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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Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies
Adams, Gina, 2006
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

The second part of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on child care subsidy use by parents in transition from TANF to employment

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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Unpublished manuscript, Georgia State University, Atlanta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

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Child care, subsidy receipt and state of residence: Comparisons by age and parent work schedule
Georges, Annie, December 2001
Paper presented to the 23rd Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November

A study of the differences in child care arrangements as it relates to costs of care and state of residence among children in families eligible for subsidies

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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund

A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group

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The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA
Blau, David M., October 2007
Journal of Population Economics, 20(4), 719-741

A study of the effects of child care subsidies on the employment, school, and welfare participation of single mothers following the passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)

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Economic deprivation and early childhood development
Duncan, Greg, 1994
Child Development, 65(2), 296-318

A study of the impact of poverty and poverty correlates such as ethnicity, maternal education, neighborhood conditions and single parenthood on child cognitive and behavioral development, using longitudinal data from the Infant Health and Development program

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Employment and earnings of child-care subsidy recipients in Harris County, Texas
Olson, Jerome A., June 2002
Austin: University of Texas at Austin, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources.

An identification of the economic, personal, and policy variables influencing employment and earnings among recipients of subsidized child care in Harris County, Texas, during a period of welfare reform

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Fathers of U.S. children born in 2001: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Avenilla, Frank, July 2006
(E.D. Tab, NCES 2006-002). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

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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Home environment and cognitive development in the first 3 years of life: A collaborative study involving six sites and three ethnic groups in North America
Bradley, Robert H., 1989
Developmental Psychology, 25(2), 217-235

Examines the generalizability of relationships between home environment and children's early development status across groups of white, African American and Mexican American children one to three years of age

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Migrant and seasonal Head Start and child care partnerships: A report from the field
Kloosterman, Valentina I., 2003
Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Center for Children and Families.

A study conducted by the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Collaboration Office and the Quality in Linking Together (QUILT) to determine the scope of collaborative efforts between Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and state-funded child care services

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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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Parental factors correlated with developmental outcome in the migrant Head Start child
de Leon Siantz, Mary Lou, 1994
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 9(3-4), 481-503

A study on whether psychological factors of migrant Mexican American parents influence the behavioral, social and intelligence development of their children

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Parents' perspectives on child care subsidies and moving from welfare to work
Snyder, Kathleen, 2006
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

The third part of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, presenting focus group data on the experiences of current and former TANF recipients with the child care subsidy system

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Strengthening Latino parental involvement forming community-based organizations/school partnership
Osterling, Jorge P, 2004
NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2(1), 270-284

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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Teaching low-income mothers to teach their children
Johnson, Dale L., 1996
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 11(1), 101-114

A study of the effectiveness of the Avance Parent-Child Education Program, which teaches low-income Mexican-American mothers of infants child care techniques to use for teaching their own children

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