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4K teachers in community approach and comparison districts: 2005-06
Adams, Diane B., 2006
(Report E). Madison: University of Wisconsin--Extension.

A survey-based study comparing characteristics (experience, salary, education, professional development, curricula) of Wisconsin four-year-old kindergarten (4K) teachers from districts that use a community approach to 4K to teachers from districts that offer 4K without a collaborative effort

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Adult health in child care: Health status, behaviors, and concerns of teachers, directors, and family child care providers
Gratz, Rene R., 1996
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 11(2), 243-267

The results of a statewide survey of health status, behaviors, and concerns of randomly selected early childhood professionals from the Child Care Employee Project

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Announced v. unannounced licensing inspections: Survey report
National Association for Regulatory Administration, 1997
Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration.

Results from a survey about the requirements and practices of announced and unannounced licensing inspections by child care, child welfare, drug and alcohol, adult day care, and mental health licensing professionals in 40 different states/provinces/territories

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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

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Child care professionals in 2010: The view from Wisconsin
Gernetzke, Erin,
Madison, WI: Wisconsin Early Childhood Association.

A study of the early childhood education workforce in Wisconsin, including education, compensation, experience, job satisfaction, and professional development, based on 1,425 surveys collected from child care center directors, child care center employees, and family child care providers

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Counting the child care workforce: A catalog of state data sources to quantify and describe child caregivers in the fifty states and the District of Columbia
Breunig, Gretchen Stahr, 2003
Seattle: University of Washington, Human Services Policy Center.

A report on data sources suitable for use in calculating the size of the child care workforce for individual states

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Early childhood teacher preparation programs in the United States: State report for Wisconsin
Maxwell, Kelly, 2006
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, National Prekindergarten Center.

An overview of the characteristics of the programs, faculty, and students in early childhood teacher preparation programs to prepare the workforce of service providers to children under age 5 in Wisconsin

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An evaluation of the quality initiatives program final report to the Office of Child Care
Wisconsin. Department of Workforce Development, 2003
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin--Extension.

An evaluation of a state program aimed at improving the education, training and compensation of child care providers and increasing accreditation rates of child care facilities

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Family service delivery in Early Head Start: Perspectives of professionals in six states
Zhang, Chun, 2000
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A discussion of the obstacles in delivering family service programs to families in Early Head Start programs, based on interviews with 43 Early Head Start directors and surveys of 206 staff members in six Midwestern states

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From capitols to classrooms, policies to practice: State-funded prekindergarten at the classroom level: Part 1: Who's teaching our youngest students?: Teacher education and training, experience, compensation and benefits, and assistant teachers
Gilliam, Walter S., 2005
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research.

A study of the characteristics of prekindergarten teachers throughout the United States

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Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers
Chalfie, Deborah, 2007
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

An examination of statewide efforts to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions

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Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers: 2010 update
Blank, Helen, June 2010
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

An examination of statewide efforts between February 2007 and March 2010 to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions

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The habitat of licensed child care providers: The influences of caregiver, contextual and group characteristics on quality of care
Weaver, Ruth Harding, 2001
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison

An exploration of unique factors in 65 licensed family child care providers’ lives that enhance or undermine quality of care, including education, training, psychological well-being, adult attachment style, commitment to care, social support, and perceptions of their current childcare group

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Liminal cultural work in family childcare: Latino immigrant family childcare providers and bicultural childrearing in the United States, 2002-2004
Uttal, Lynet, December 2010
Paedagogica Historica, 46(6), 729-740

An ethnographic examination of the differences between United States regulatory training in child development and country-of-origin childrearing ideas, based on field work with female Spanish-speaking immigrant family child care providers in Madison, Wisconsin, between 2000 and 2004

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Losing ground or keeping up?: A report on the Wisconsin early care and education workforce, 2001
Adams, Diane B., 2001
Madison: University of Wisconsin--Extension.

A study on the education, wages, experience and staff turnover of child care providers in Wisconsin, including demographic characteristics and changes over time

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Predicting acceptance of diversity in pre-kindergarten classrooms
Sanders, Kay, Q3 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(3), 503-511

A study of the relationships between diversity-promoting practices in prekindergarten classrooms and classroom composition, process quality, and teacher characteristics, based on data from 692 publicly-supported prekindergarten classrooms across 11 states, from both the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the State-Wide Early Education Programs Study (SWEEP)

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Predictors of quality and commitment in family child care: Provider education, personal resources, and support
Weaver, Ruth Harding, 2002
Early Education and Development, 13(3), 265-282

An article relating characteristics of family child care providers to child care quality and commitment.

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Preparing early childhood teachers to successfully educate all children: The contribution of four-year undergraduate teacher preparation programs
Ray, Aisha, October, 2006
New York: Foundation for Child Development.

A study of whether early childhood teacher bachelor's degree requirements meet the developmental and educational needs of children with special needs, racial and ethnic minority children, children from low-income families, immigrant children, and second language learners

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Preparing early childhood teachers to successfully educate all children: The contribution of state boards of higher education and national professional accreditation organizations
Ray, Aisha, October, 2006
New York: Foundation for Child Development.

A study of the diversity-related content and language in state boards' of higher education and professional accreditation organizations' early childhood teacher standards

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Promoting healthy practices in child care centers: The role of child care resource and referral agencies
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, August, 2011
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

A study of child care center obesity prevention practices and child care resource and referral agency health-related training and technical assistance offerings, based on a survey of 113 agencies from 29 states

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Recruiting and retaining low-income child care workers in Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Child Care Mentoring Project evaluation: A summary of the findings
Burton, Alice, 1999
Washington, DC: Center for the Child Care Workforce.

Findings from a study investigating the efficacy of the Wisconsin Child Care Mentor Project (WCCMP)in the recruitment and retention of workers providing early childhood education and care

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Status of efforts to increase the qualifications of Head Start teachers
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General. Office of Evaluation and Inspections, 2004
(OEI-07-01-00560). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General.

A study assessing factors contributing to Head Start programs’ progress and experiences in increasing teachers’ qualifications

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T.E.A.C.H. early childhood Wisconsin evaluation report: August 1999-June 2003
Adams, Diane B., 2003

The evaluation of a scholarship program designed to improve the educational qualifications, wages and retention rates of child care workers in Wisconsin

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Teacher qualifications, classroom practices, family characteristics, and preschool experience: Complex effects on first graders' vocabulary and early reading outcomes
Connor, Carol McDonald, 2005
Journal of School Psychology, 43(4), 343-375

A study of the association of teacher qualification and observed classroom practice as they relate to children’s vocabulary and early reading skills, based on an ecological model incorporating children’s language and word recognition skills prior to school entry, their home and preschool learning environments, and family socio-economic status

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Trends over time: Wisconsin's child care workforce
Adams, Diane B., 2003

A report summarizing the data on the education, compensation and turnover of the child care workforce in Wisconsin between 1980 and 2001

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