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The 21st Century Community Learning Centers program in Florida: Program report of the 2009-2010 academic year
Baker, Thomas A.,
Tallahassee: Florida 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

An evaluation of Florida 21st Century Community Learning Centers that examines student and parent satisfaction and teacher assessments of student academic behavior, based on survey responses from 16,834 students, 9,664 parents, and 19,831 teachers

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America After 3PM
Afterschool Alliance, October 2009
Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

A 2009 update of and comparison to a 2004 study of the after school child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households

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America After 3PM: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Afterschool Alliance, May 2010
Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

A study of the summer child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students during the summer of 2008, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households

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An analysis of Florida's Voluntary Pre-K program
Kennedy-Salchow, Shana, 2005
(Occasional Paper 103). New York: Columbia University, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education.

An analysis of regulation, finance and support services of the Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Program in Florida

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Best practices in summer learning programs for middle and high school youth
National Summer Learning Association,
Baltimore: National Summer Learning Association.

A study to identify best practices in high-quality summer learning programs serving middle school and high school students, based on a literature review, surveys from 25 programs, and follow-up interviews with some programs

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Bringing transmedia to expanded learning settings: Emerging practices
Agrawal, Nina, February, 2013
New York: Collaborative for Building After-School Systems.

An examination of efforts by 11 public television stations to incorporate transmedia storytelling, which links interactive games, television series, and websites to established children's educational characters, into out-of-school time programs serving young children, based on site visits, progress reports, and interviews with television station staff

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Building partnerships between Early Head Start grantees and family child care providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care project: Final report
United States. Office of Head Start, 12 December, 2011
Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Head Start.

An evaluation of Early Head Start (EHS) for Family Child Care, a project to support partnerships between EHS grantees and family child care providers, that examines the characteristics of participating grantees and providers, the implementation, types, and sustainability of the partnerships, and lessons learned, based on project administrative data, interviews with 13 partnership teams, descriptive quality indicators and Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data, and project documents

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Building statewide partnership capacity to assess school readiness for Florida Head Start children and families
Greenfield, Daryl B., 2001
NHSA Dialog, 4(2), 197-209

An overview of the process of assessing school readiness in Florida children and its implications for Head Start programs, using data from the Florida Partnership for School Readiness (Readiness Partnership)

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A case study of children's literacy development in a voluntary pre-kindergarten classroom
Sylvester, Ruth, January-March 2012
Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 26(1), 122-140

A study of oral language and literacy development strategies and opportunities available to at risk 4-year-old children in a public voluntary pre-kindergarten, and a comparison of children's expressive and receptive vocabulary and early reading development both prior to and after one year in the program, based on data from 3 teachers and 13 children in one inclusive classroom

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A center piece of the preK puzzle: Providing state prekindergarten in child care centers
Schulman, Karen, November 2007
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

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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Child, family, and childcare predictors of delayed school entry and kindergarten retention among linguistically and ethnically diverse children
Winsler, Adam, September, 2012
Developmental Psychology, 48(5), 1299-1314

A study of potential predictors of both delayed entry into kindergarten and kindergarten retention, including child characteristics, family characteristics, and child care participation, based on a sample of 13,191 ethnically and linguistically diverse at risk children that participated in The Miami School Readiness Project

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Child health in child care: A multi-state survey of Head Start and non-Head Start child care directors
Gupta, Ruchi S., May-June 2009
Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23(3), 143-149

A comparison of children’s health risks and access to services in various center-based child care settings, based on a survey of 2,753 child care directors from Head Start and non-Head Start centers in Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, and Vermont

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Coming together for children with disabilities: State collaboration to support quality, inclusive child care
Mezey, Jennifer, 2003
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

A study of state policies which would provide special education and early intervention services to low-income children with disabilities in child care programs

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A descriptive study of the Head Start Health Component: Vol. II. Technical report
United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, 1996
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families.

Descriptive findings from a study of the Head Start Health Component, using child health records and standard data from the Head Start Program Information Report (PIR), plus observations and interviews with parents and staff, collected during the Spring of 1994 from a sample of 80 Head Start centers

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A descriptive study of the Head Start Health Component: Vol. I. Summary report
United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, 1996
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families.

A description of the ways in which the Health Component of the Head Start program address the medical, nutritional, and mental health needs of program participants

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Determinants of household participation in Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten program
Nores, Milagros, December, 2011
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research.

A study of the relationship of child and family characteristics, including program awareness, to participation in Florida's publicly funded Voluntary Prekindergarten program, based on a survey of 1,305 randomly selected parents or legal guardians with children aged 4 and 5

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Differential effects of high-quality child care
Hill, Jennifer, 2002
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21(4), 601-627

An analysis of data collected from the Infant Health and Development Program examining the differential causal effects of access to high quality child care for at risk children who would otherwise have participated in one of three child care options: no non-maternal care, home-based non-maternal care, and center-based care

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Does universal preschool improve learning?: Lessons from Georgia and Oklahoma
Burke, Lindsey, May 14, 2009
(Backgrounder No. 2272). Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation.

A discussion of proposed legislation to expand the provision of universal prekindergarten and arguments against expansion initiatives, based on evidence from of program outcomes of participants in Georgia, and Oklahoma, including preliminary data on Florida’s universal prekindergarten program

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The Early Childhood Cluster Initiative of Palm Beach County, Florida: Early implementation study and evaluability assessment: Final report
Spielberger, Julie, 2006
Chicago: University of Chicago, Chapin Hall Center for Children.

An implementation evaluation and recommendations for ongoing evaluation efforts of the Early Childhood Cluster Initiative, a comprehensive, high-quality preschool education program for children in low-income communities in Palm Beach County, Florida, based on interviews with key stakeholders, teacher surveys, program observations, and a review of documents

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Early intervention: The moderating role of the home environment
Bradley, Robert H., 2001
Applied Developmental Science, 5(1), 2-8

An examination of the effect of young children's home environments on the impact of the Infant Health and Development Program, an early intervention program designed for at risk children from low income families

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Educare implementation study findings--August 2012
Yazejian, Noreen, 2012
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute.

Findings from an implementation study of Educare, a full-day, full-year high-quality early care and education program for at risk children from birth to age 5, that examine children's school readiness, vocabulary, and socioemotional outcomes and classroom quality, based on data collected at 12 programs from the fall 2007 through spring 2011 school years

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The effect of pre-K early intervention duration on academic achievement and socialization opportunities of 3rd-grade students who were eligible for special education services at ages 3 to 5: An exploratory study of children with developmental delays
Lin, Mike Chang-Hui, 2005
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Central Florida, Orlando

An examination of the effect of prekindergarten early intervention duration on academic achievement and socialization opportunities of third grade students who were eligible for special education services at ages 3 to 5

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The effects of experience of early intervention of low birth weight, premature children: The Infant Health and Development Program
Liaw, Fong-ruey, 1995
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 10(4), 405-431

A study of the effects of individual children's early intervention experiences, in both home and child development center settings, on child and parental outcomes in the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP)

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Effects of explicit instruction on decoding of struggling first grade students: A data-based case study
Pullen, Paige C., 2005
Education and Treatment of Children, 28(1), 63-76

An inquiry into the link between explicit teaching of early reading components and students’ ability to decode words, based on a sample of 9 poor-performing first grade students in Florida

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Enhancing the educational achievement of at-risk youth
Schinke, Steven P., 2000
Prevention Science, 1(1), 51-60

A study of an educational enhancement program, administered outside of school, offered to at-risk early adolescents living in public housing

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