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Apples, giraffes, and Martin Luther King: Curriculum policy in a kindergarten classroom
Davila, Sarah S., 2006
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Tufts University, Somerville, MA

An observational study of how a kindergarten teacher combined her knowledge and beliefs about early education with four state, local, and national curriculum initiatives, including No Child Left Behind and the National Association for the Education of Young Children's accreditation standards

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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 Circuit salary & benefits survey results: EOHHS Region 3 - Summer 2007
Child Care Circuit, 2007
Beverly, MA: Child Care Circuit.

An examination of the compensation and benefits of early childhood workers in Region 3 in Massachusetts in 2007, based on survey responses from 108 service providers from the Merrimack Valley and Metro North/Cape Ann areas of the state

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An early educator's dilemma: Balancing educational aspirations & student loan burden
Kramer, Robert, October, 2011
Boston: Bessie Tartt Wilson Initiative for Children.

A study of Massachusetts early educators' experiences with student loans and their relationship to the pursuit of higher education, based on 4 focus groups with more than 60 early educators and a survey of 395 early educators

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''Head Start works because we do'': Head Start programs, community action agencies, and the struggle over unionization
Pasachoff, Eloise, 2003
Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 38(1), 247-277

An examination of the clash between Head Start employees’ efforts for unionization and Community Action Agency employers, analyzing the conflict’s practical, rhetorical and legal arenas and proposing strategies for change

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Leadership in Massachusetts early education schools: Perceptions of leader attributes in practice
Manganaro, Michelle Lee, October 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

An examination of the relationships between perceived leadership characteristics in directors and their experience, education, credentials, leadership role in organizational performance, and perceptions of organizational performance and an examination of the relatioinship between perceived organizational performance and consistency of staff and leader perceptions of leadership characteristics, from surveys of 61 directors and 515 teachers employed at 56 schools in Southeastern Massachusetts

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Looking for progress in raising the education levels of early childhood teachers
Moulin, Christy, August 2009
Unpublished master’s thesis, Tufts University, Medford, MA

An examination of the process by which early childhood programs in Boston with National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation are attempting to conform to the NAEYC timeline to increase teacher education levels from interviews with 18 personnel at 16 programs

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The Massachusetts Professional Development System Study: Interim report
Douglass, Anne, December 31, 2010
Boston: Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care.

Interim findings from an implementation evaluation of a statewide early education and care professional development system in Massachusetts

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Toward better child care worker compensation: Advocacy in three states
De Vita, Carol J., 2002
Washington, DC: Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (Urban Institute).

A report on advocates' efforts to use public policy to increase child care worker compensation in Georgia, Massachusetts, and Washington

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