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Announced v. unannounced licensing inspections: Survey report 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] 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 as an adult work environment A study of the predictors of child care provider job satisfaction and turnover, and their influence on child care quality and work environment |
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Child Care Consultation Pilot Project: Evaluation report An investigation into the relationship between providers' access to children's mental health professionals and improvements in providers' knowledge and children's behavior, based on information gathered from 61 child care providers who received classroom consultation services and 6 mental health classroom consultants in King, Thurston, and Yakima Counties in Washington |
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Child care Quality Rating and Improvement System: Considerations for development in Washington State A discussion of the development of the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) and the influence of licensing regulations on child care program quality in Washington state, with a focus on process quality, teacher compensation and teacher qualifications |
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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 A report on data sources suitable for use in calculating the size of the child care workforce for individual states |
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The diffusion of state-level nonprofit program innovation: The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Project A study of the adoption of a scholarship program for teachers, directors, and family child care providers of the nonprofit Child Care Services Association in North Carolina by 4 other states, from interviews with 74 policy actors involved with the adoption |
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Early childhood teacher preparation programs in the United States: State report for Washington 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 Washington |
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The effects of a data dissemination strategy on the letter naming and object counting skills of preschoolers attending Head Start A study of the effects of teacher participation in Repeated Assessment Focused Teaching (RAFT) on the letter naming and object counting skills of Head Start preschoolers, based on data from 652 4-year-old children in south-central Washington State during four program years, with a comparison among treatment, control and phonics classes |
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Evaluating the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Child-care worker apprenticeships in the Western states: Final report A process evaluation of the first two rounds of the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce, in Western states, based on site visits |
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Exploitation or opportunity?: The contradictions of child-care policy in the contemporary United States 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 |
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Family child care providers' perspectives regarding effective professional development and their role in the child care system: A qualitative study A qualitative study of family child care providers' perspectives on both professional development and their role in the early learning and care system, based on 4 focus groups conducted annually for 3 years with 54 licensed family child care providers in Family Child Care Provider Professional Development Networks |
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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 A study of the characteristics of prekindergarten teachers throughout the United States |
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The gendering of men in early childhood education A study of 54 men’s experiences working as early childhood teachers in the western United States, with a focus on issues such as early childhood as a gendered occupation, men’s performances of masculinity within early childhood education, and the scrutiny under which male teachers operate |
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Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers 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 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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Improving child care worker compensation in Washington state: A case study A study of the status of child care worker compensation and initiatives in Washington state |
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Kinship care in Washington State: Prevalence, policy, and needs A study of kinship care in Washington State, including its prevalence and characteristics, the needs of kinship care providers in the state, policies and services available in Washington and other states, and policy options that may increase appropriate kinship care placements |
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Pathway to Excellence professional development model: Outcome evaluation report A quasi-experimental evaluation of the impact of Pathway to Excellence, a year-long professional development model for after school program staff, on after school programs, program staff knowledge and skills, and student engagement, based on data collected from 36 experimental and 35 control programs |
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Predicting acceptance of diversity in pre-kindergarten classrooms 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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Preparing early childhood teachers to successfully educate all children: The contribution of four-year undergraduate teacher preparation programs 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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Preschool-aged children’s television viewing in child care settings A comparison of television use in home- and center-based child care settings, and a study of the relationship between television use and the educational levels of personnel, based on data collected from a random sample of 168 directors of licensed child care programs in four states |
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Project SELF: Preparing professionals to facilitate self-determination A description of an action research project designed to foster collaboration between parents and teachers when teaching self-determination skills to young children |
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Promoting healthy practices in child care centers: The role 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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A qualitative evaluation of a program to support family, friend, and neighbor caregivers A qualitative investigation of the perceived quality benefits of grandmother participation in the Promoting First Relationships home visiting program, a quality intervention for family, friend, and neighbor caregivers, based on interviews with 19 English- and Spanish-speaking grandmothers who provide regular care for their grandchildren |
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