A center piece of the preK puzzle: Providing state prekindergarten in child care centers
An examination of the benefits and challenges for child care centers providing state-funded prekindergarten program services, with policies and strategies for increasing child care center provision of prekindergarten services, based on interviews with child care center directors
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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Findings from Project Upgrade in Miami-Dade County
Findings from an experimental study of the impacts of three different language and literacy interventions on teacher behavior, classroom environment, and children's language development and early literacy skills in classrooms of 4-year-olds at child care centers serving children from low-income families in Miami-Dade County
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First year report for Early Get smART study: Implementation of Early Get smART in early childhood education programs
Findings from the first year of the implementation of Early Get smARTin Miami, Florida, an initiative to integrate the arts into early childhood education programs
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Head Start and hurricane recovery: Using a family outcomes measure to assess the impact of program services
Findings from a preliminary study on the influence of Head Start services and family supports on the family well-being of victims of Hurricane Charley in Florida in 2004 using the Family Outcomes Matrix, a newly developed instrument to assess family status and outcomes
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Helping families shine: Evaluation of the Family and Community Partnership Palm Beach County, Florida: Final report
A three-year evaluation of the operation and experiences of Palm Beach County, Florida’s Family & Community Partnership (FCP)--established to increase the functioning of, and collaboration among, programs providing early intervention and prevention services in four high-need areas--based on surveys of partner organizations, interviews with administrators and staff, reviews of partnership documents, and observations of partnership meetings and events
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Implementation study of the Comprehensive Services program of Palm Beach County, Florida: Final report
A three-year, multi-method implementation study of the Palm Beach County, Florida, Comprehensive Services (CS) program--established to improve the school readiness of children from low income families through identification of need and provision of early intervention services--based on analyses and observations of CS staff and activities, interviews with CS organizational partners, a survey of child care centers served by CS, and an analysis of school readiness indicators
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Infant/toddler early learning guidelines
An overview of the Early Learning Guidelines (ELGs) published by 17 states and 3 territories
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Oral health promotion, prevention, & treatment strategies for Head Start families: Early findings from the Oral Health Initiative evaluation: Vol. II. Site profiles
Interim findings from a two-year implementation evaluation of the Head Start Oral Health Initiative, which provided grants to Head Start programs to design and implement oral health promotion strategies, based on 1) interviews with program directors, 2) a web-based record-keeping system for grantees, and 3) site visits. This volume is based on data from the first source
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The Palm Beach County Family Study: Second annual report
Findings from the second year of an eight-year longitudinal study of service usage and child and family outcomes related to the comprehensive system of early intervention and prevention services for low income families developed by the Children's Services Council (CSC) of Palm Beach County, Florida, based on administrative data on family characteristics and service use, structured interviews with a sample of parents, and qualitative in-depth interviews with a subsample of parents
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The state of preschool 2007: State preschool yearbook
An annual review of access, quality, and resources in state-funded preschool programs for children ages three and four, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, during the 2006-2007 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs
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