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Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2007 (CCDF) [United States] This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education. |
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Child care support for student parents in community college is crucial for success, but supply and funding are inadequate An examination of the demand for and supply of child care for parents attending community colleges |
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Children, pupils and staff: National level: Sweden's official statistics on pre-school activities, school-age child care, schools and adult education: Part 2, 2009 A statistical representation of children's participation in the early education system, presented by age and setting, and staff qualifications by setting, based on national data for Sweden in 2009 |
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Connecting the dots: Director qualifications, instructional leadership practices, and learning environments in early childhood programs Highlights of findings from an investigation into the relationship between child care center directors' educational attainment and the quality of instructional leadership and the learning environment in child care centers, based on a sample of 564 child care center directors from 25 states |
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Economy on the minds of for profit CEOs: Annual status report on for profit care A description of North America’s 50 largest for profit child care chains' self reported challenges to their operations, a description of for profit child care organizations and the largest franchising organizations, and a comparison of growth in the number of centers of the two largest child care franchising organizations in the United States |
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Enhanced employee health, well-being, and engagement through dependent care supports An examination of the relationship between employees' access to program supports for dependent care and employees' health outcomes, and an inquiry into the influence of employers' support of employees' dependent care on employers' long-term organizational success |
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Environmental scan of physical activity practices and resources in Washington, DC child care centers A study of the physical activity practices and features of child care centers in Washington, DC, based on survey, interview, and observation data collected from 26 child care centers |
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Environmental scan of physical activity practices and resources in Washington, DC child care centers: Executive summary A summary of a study of the physical activity practices and features of child care centers in Washington, DC, based on survey, interview, and observation data collected from 26 child care centers |
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Examining parental and staff perceptions of childcare service quality across competing business structures A study of differences in parental and staff perceptions of both child care service quality and the quality of service delivery across provider types, based on interviews with 21 child care staff working either for non-profit community-based providers, private independent for-profit operators, or for-profit corporate chains in Australia, and 20 interviews with parents of children attending the centers |
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How duration of relationship with a care provider and creating connected care with parents impacts resilience in infants and toddlers A study of the relationships between the time duration of care between infants and substitute care providers and child initiative, attachment/relationship, self regulation scores of infants and toddlers, and care providers' views of the children from 154 care provider respondents in 14 licensed infant and toddler child care centers and 7 licensed family child care homes, in Fresno County, California |
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The impact of the Developmental Training Model on staff development in Air Force Child Development Programs A study of staff perceptions of a Developmental Training Model based on historical documents and interviews with 16 key stakeholders at 4 Air Force bases |
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In the eye of the beholder: Perspectives on quality in early childhood education and care A study of teachers' and parents' perceptions of characteristics of good preschool programs and a comparison across auspice, based on a survey of 411 parents and teachers of children ages 3 through 5 at funded programs for students at-risk, Head Starts, private preschools, university-lab schools, and non-profits in central Illinois |
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In-home child care providers, training, and social-emotional development of young children An examination of in-home child care providers' understanding of socialemotional development (SED), what they report they do to foster SED, and their perceived needs for and openness to training to foster SED in children ages birth through 5, from transcripts of interviews with 6 providers in western Washington |
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Kindergarten literacy skills and their relationship to the type of preschool experience A study of the relationship between kindergarten reading readiness and preschool program type, as well as time in preschool, for 423 kindergarten students, at 11 centers, in one district in a suburban school district in the Midwest |
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Nurseries under threat An overview of Improving Working Lives, a workplace nurseries initiative to provide service to hospital employees in Great Britain, and a discussion of funding challenges |
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Offering to provide child care for preschool grandchildren: Grandparents behaving generatively An examination of the degree of generative concern as expressed in a survey of 85 grandparent providers of child care for preschool grandchildren |
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Profiles of grandmothers providing child care to their grandchildren in South Korea A study of the relationship between the amount of time grandmothers provide care for their grandchildren and their personal, financial, and social participation characteristics, based on questionnaire responses of 3,329 respondents 45- through 79-years-old who have at least one grandchild from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoS A), a survey of a nationally representative sample of Korean men and women aged 45 years or older |
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Promoting school readiness by improving family, friend, and neighbor care A discussion of strategies for the improvement of family, friend, and neighbor child care services to promote children's school readiness |
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The relationships among caregiver training, mentoring, and turn-taking between caregiver and child in family child care A study of the impact of participation in the First Steps: Supporting Early Language Development professional development training and First Steps combined with on-site mentoring on family child care provider-child conversational turn-taking, based on data from recordings of children during free play in 48 family child care programs randomly assigned to one of the professional development interventions or a control group |
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Reluctant to report: The mandated reporting practices of child care providers A study of the associations between child care providers' rates of mandated reports of child abuse and their training, education, time with children and families, and type of child care setting, based on the responses of a self-selected sample of 163 child care workers at licensed center-based and family child care sites throughout the United States |
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Research evidence on selected aspects of for-profit/non-profit child care programs: A bibliography A compilation of research and policy studies related to differences between for-profit and nonprofit child care |
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The rise in cortisol in family day care: Associations with aspects of care quality, child behavior, and child sex A comparison between salivary cortisol, a stress response indicator, measured mid-morning to mid-afternoon at home and while in attendance at full-time home based child care, and an examination of the relationships between cortisol levels and child care quality, sex, and child behavior, for 151 children ages 3- through 5-years-old |
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Transition to kindergarten: The impact of preschool on kindergarten adjustment A study of the relationship between kindergarten adjustment and both preschool attendance and preschool type, based on ratings by parents and teachers of 107 kindergarten children in a small city school district in western New York state |
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Understanding caregiving patterns, motivations, and resource needs of subsidized family, friend, and neighbor child care providers A descriptive study of the economic characteristics, caregiving experiences, motivations for caregiving, and licensing, training, and resource needs of subsidized family, friend, and neighbor child care providers, based on a survey of 301 randomly selected Illinois providers |
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A window on early childhood administrative practices An overview of an examination of the relationship between administrative practices and the quality of services of early childhood programs, based on an analysis of data on 564 child care centers in 25 states |
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