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			Achieving high-quality child care: How ten programs deliver excellence parents can afford Kinch, Amy, Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children. A study of the characteristics and fundamentals of a high quality and affordable early childhood program by highlighting ten highly-rated child care programs	Reports & Papers
			Active and passive surveillance for communicable diseases in child care facilities, Seattle-King Country, Washington MacDonald, Jean K., 1997 American Journal of Public Health, 87(12), 1951-1955 A summary of active and passive public health surveillance activities for children under six years of age in out-of-home child care settings in Seattle-King County, Washington	Reports & Papers
			Air Force/NACCRRA Quality Family Child Care (QFCC) project: Final report National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, January, 2007 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. An evaluation of a joint Air Force-National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies initiative to increase the supply of high-quality family child care in civilian communities near Air Force bases by implementing the Air Force model of family child care among local providers	Reports & Papers
			All together now: State experiences in using community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten Schumacher, Rachel, 2005 Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy. A discussion of the findings from a survey of 29 states conducted by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), which examined the policies, opportunities, and challenges associated with including community based child care providers as part of the states' prekindergarten programs	Reports & Papers
			All together now: State experiences in using community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten Schumacher, Rachel, 2005 Paper presented at the the Brookings Institution-University of North Carolina conference on Creating a national plan for the education of 4-year-olds, Washington, DC. A discussion of the findings from a survey of 29 states that examines the policies, opportunities, and challenges associated with including community-based child care providers in states' prekindergarten programs	Reports & Papers
			America After 3PM Afterschool Alliance, October 2009 Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance. A 2009 update of and comparison to a 2004 study of the after school child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households	Reports & Papers
			Building partnerships between Early Head Start grantees and family child care providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care project: Final report United States. Office of Head Start, 12 December, 2011 Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Head Start. An evaluation of Early Head Start (EHS) for Family Child Care, a project to support partnerships between EHS grantees and family child care providers, that examines the characteristics of participating grantees and providers, the implementation, types, and sustainability of the partnerships, and lessons learned, based on project administrative data, interviews with 13 partnership teams, descriptive quality indicators and Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data, and project documents	Reports & Papers
			Characteristics and quality of child care for toddlers and preschoolers [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 91-104). New York: Guilford Press The relationship between structural and caregiver characteristics and observed caregiver behavior in producing positive caregiving, as well as levels of positive caregiving associated with types of child care at 15, 24, and 36 months of age	Reports & Papers
			Characteristics of infant child care: Factors contributing to positive caregiving NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1996 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 11(3), 269-306 An analysis of the structural and caregiver characteristics that predict high caregiving quality for infants using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Child care and common communicable illnesses [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 175-183). New York: Guilford Press A study of the relationship between children�s experience in nonmaternal care and rates of respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and ear infections during the first 3 years of life	Reports & Papers
			Child care and common communicable illnesses in children ages 37-54 months [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 184-190). New York: Guilford Press A study of the relationship between children�s experience in nonmaternal care and rates of respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and ear infections from 3 to 41/2 years old in a sample of approximately 1,100 children	Reports & Papers
			The child care arrangements of preschool-age children in immigrant families in the United States Brandon, Peter D., 2004 International Migration, 42(2), 65-87 A comparison of the use of child care arrangements among immigrant families to non-immigrant families	Reports & Papers
			Child care centers, child care vouchers, and faith-based organizations Rohacek, Monica, 2008 Washington: DC: Urban Institute. An examination of the roles of faith-based organization in providing or supporting center-based child care, particularly for children from families receiving vouchers, in five counties in four states	Reports & Papers
			Child care for children in poverty: Opportunity or inequality? Phillips, Deborah A., 1991 Child Development, 65(1), 472-492 A study of child care quality in child care centers serving children from low-income families, its relationship to type of center-based programming, and its comparability to child care quality in centers serving upper- and middle-income families, based on data from the nationally representative Profile of Child Care Settings study and the National Child Care Staffing Study, which collected observational data on child care quality in 227 child care centers in five cities	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care HOME Inventories: Assessing the quality of family child care homes Bradley, Robert H., 2003 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(3), 294-309 An overview of the different versions of the HOME Inventory for use in assessing quality of family child care homes	Reports & Papers
			Child care in the first year of life [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 39-49). New York: Guilford Press A description of child care during the first 12 months of life, including initiation and amount of infant child care, child care history patterns during the first year, and the types, multiplicity, and stability of care used by parents of infants over the course of the first year, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Child-care selection from birth to age three: The influence of family economy, demographics, and parenting attitudes Wolf, Anne, 2004 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Two studies using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development examined family variations in timing and type of children's initial child care arrangements and then variations in amount of hours spent in child care per week from birth to age three	Reports & Papers
			Child-rearing in families of working and nonworking mothers Yarrow, Marian R., 1962 Sociometry, 25(2), 122-140 A study of child-rearing among working and non-working mothers, discussing the effects of their attitudes and practices on child-rearing	Reports & Papers
			A compilation of initiatives to support home-based child care United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March 31, 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A compilation of profiles of 96 initiatives that target and support home-based child care	Reports & Papers
			Do regulable features of child-care homes affect children's development? Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison, 2002 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 17(1), 52-86 An analysis of the links between regulable and nonregulable features of family child care homes and infants' and toddlers' cognitive development using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Early child care and children's development prior to school entry [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 376-391). New York: Guilford Press An abridged reprint of a study of the impact of early child care experiences, and the quality and types of child care, on children's functioning prior to school entry, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Early child care and children's development prior to school entry: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2002 American Educational Research Journal, 39(1), 133-164 A longitudinal study of the effects of quantity, quality, and type of early child care on pre-academic skills, language performance, and behavior problems in a sample of over 1,000 children followed from birth to 4 � years of age	Reports & Papers
			Exploitation or opportunity?: The contradictions of child-care policy in the contemporary United States Tuominen, Mary, 1997 Women & Politics, 18(1), 53-80 An analysis of the ways in which government policies exploit women child care workers through their employment as gendered, low-waged, no-benefit, contingent workers in state-subsidized, home-based child care	Reports & Papers
			Familial factors associated with the characteristics of nonmaternal care for infants [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 109-126). New York: Guilford Press An examination of the associations between four aspects of nonmaternal infant child care, age of entry, amount, type, and quality, and preexisting family characteristics, economics, and psychosocial factors	Reports & Papers
			Family child care homes and the CACFP: Participation after reimbursement tiering: An interim report of the Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study Food Assistance & Nutrition Research (Program : U.S.), 1999 (Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report No. 3). Washington, DC: U.S. Food Assistance & Nutrition Research Program. An inquiry into the participation rates of family child care homes in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)	Reports & Papers

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