After-school pursuits: An examination of outcomes in the San Francisco Beacon Initiative: Executive summary
A summary of a program evaluation of the San Francisco Beacon Initiative (SFBI), a community-based after school program
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Air Force/NACCRRA Quality Family Child Care (QFCC) project: Final report [Executive summary]
A summary of 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
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Assessing Operation Purple: A program evaluation of a summer camp for military youth [Executive summary]
A summary of an evaluation of Operation Purple, a free summer camp program for military children who experience parental deployment, that examines curriculum implementation and participant outcomes related to communicating feelings about deployment-related stress, understanding military culture and service, and environmental knowledge and practice, based on camp director reports and visitor logs and on a comparison of pre- and posttest parent and child surveys from participants and matched nonparticipants
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The characteristics and training needs of school-age care programs in the larger metro Atlanta area [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of intensive school age child care programs in the Atlanta area, using director surveys to determine supply, demographics, characteristics and problems, staff training needs, and differences between not-for-profit and for-profit programs
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Child care: Like the military, is it time for shared responsibility? [Executive summary]
A summary of a discussion of child care and federal child care policy in the United States, with an examination of the United States military child care system as the basis for a national child care model
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Child care use and satisfaction among military families with preschool children: Technical report [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the child care arrangements, satisfaction, and costs of military families with children under six years old, based on survey data
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Community programs to promote youth development [Executive summary]
An examination of community-based programs for youth examining what is known about their design, implementation, and evaluation in an effort to effect policy and practice that reflects a broader, more holistic view of encouraging youth development beyond simply eliminating problems
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Corporate investments in after school [Executive summary]
A summary of an analysis of corporate investment in after school programs for children of employees, based on interviews with representatives from eight companies and four advocacy organizations
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The cost and quality of full day, year-round early care and education in Massachusetts: Preschool classrooms: Executive summary
A summary of findings from first report of the Massachusetts Cost and Quality Study, on preschool-aged children in full-day, year-round, community child care centers.
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Early success: Closing the opportunity gap for our youngest learners [Executive summary]
A summary of a report describing how the Montgomery County Public Schools district in Maryland improved the academic performance of its low income and minority elementary school children
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Evaluation of Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating System in child care settings [Executive summary]
A summary of an observational study examining the effects of Pennsylvania’s Keystone STARS Quality Rating System on child care quality in participating child care centers, group child care homes, and family child care homes
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Examining child care need among military families [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the child care choices and unmet child care needs of military families, based on a survey of families of active-duty military members
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If it don't make dollars, does that mean that it don't make sense?: Commercial, nonprofit and municipal child care in the City of Toronto [Executive summary]
A summary of a review of evidence on for-profit child care provision and its quality, and an analysis of the relationship of child care center auspice--nonprofit, for-profit, or municipal--to quality and staff compensation in Toronto, Canada, with policy recommendations for Toronto related to nonprofit and for-profit child care
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Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the supply of, demand for, and characteristics of on-campus child care for parents attending postsecondary education programs, based on a literature view, interviews with key on-campus child care stakeholders, and analyses of postsecondary education data
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Iowa early care and education directors' survey: Executive summary
A summary of a study of the characteristics of center-based child care workers in Iowa, including education, qualifications, wages, benefits, and turnover, based on a survey of child care center program directors
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The lasting impact of employer-sponsored back-up care [Executive summary]
A summary of an examination of the influence of employer-sponsored emergency child care arrangements on the recruitment, retention, productivity and attendance of employees
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The lasting impact of employer-sponsored child care [Executive summary]
A summary of an examination of the effect of employer-sponsored child care arrangements on the recruitment, retention, productivity and attendance of employees, based on data from 3,234 employees using full-service child care centers and 839 employees using employer-sponsored emergency child care
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Making quality child care possible: Lessons learned from NACCRRA's military partnerships [Executive summary]
A summary of a discussion of lessons learned from efforts to improve military child care that can be used to improve the quality of civilian child care
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Options for improving the military child care system [Executive summary]
A summary of an assessment of the military child care system's success in terms of its U.S. Department of Defense goals and a discussion of options for transforming the system
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Planning a compensation initiative for Hawaii's early care and education workforce: Key policy and design issues [Executive summary]
A summary of a study focusing on statewide and local efforts that directly increases the wages and benefits of practitioners in private sector early care and education programs serving children from infancy to five years of age in Hawaii
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Project Early Kindergarten evaluation: Summary of results through 2009-10 of a Saint Paul Public Schools initiative
A summary of a longitudinal evaluation of Project Early Kindergarten (PEK), a prekindergarten program offered in public schools and community-based child care settings in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to improve the school readiness of at risk children, that examined the relationship of program participation to children's academic and social skills in kindergarten through third grade
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Providing child care to military families: The role of the demand formula in defining need and informing policy [Executive summary]
A summary of a study assessing the ability of the U.S. Department of Defense's formula for calculating child care demand to meet the actual child care needs of military families, based on a survey of families of active-duty military members
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The quality gap: A study of nonprofit and commercial child care centres in Canada: Summary and conclusions
A summary of a study on the differences between nonprofit and commercial center-based child care on overall classroom quality in Canada
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Report of the operations of community kindergartens in Western Australia [Executive summary]
A summary of an examination of the provision of publicly-funded preschool for 4-year-old children in community-based settings in Western Australia, based on data collected from 243 participants at 16 community meetings
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Unequal access: Hidden barriers to achieving both quality and profit in early care and education [Executive summary]
A summary of an examination of the role of for-profit providers in the early care and education system in the United States
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