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			ACF-OPRE report: A second year in Head Start: Characteristics and outcomes of children who entered the program at age three United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A profile of the development, families, and home environments of children participating in their second year of Head Start who had entered the program at age 3 in the fall of 2006, based on spring 2008 data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)	Reports & Papers
			ACF-OPRE report: A year in Head Start: Children, families and programs United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments from fall 2006 through spring 2007, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, based on data collected from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 135 centers, 410 classrooms, 365 teachers, and 3,315 children and their parents	Reports & Papers
			Building futures: The Head Start Impact Study: Interim report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2003 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A report describing the purpose and progress of the Head Start Impact Study	Reports & Papers
			Building futures Head Start Impact Study: Presentation at the National Head Start Association's 28th annual Training Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 16-19, 2001 United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2001 Paper presented at the annual National Head Start Association Training Conference, Orlando, FL. A presentation of the Head Start Impact Study at the National Head Start Association's 28th Annual Training Conference, with an emphasis on the role of and benefits to child care centers' participation in the study	Reports & Papers
			Child outcomes and classroom quality in FACES 2009 United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, September, 2012 (OPRE Report 2012-37a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2009 and spring 2010, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula, activities, and quality, based on fall 2009 and spring 2010 data for a sample of 370 classrooms and 3,022 children in the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES)	Reports & Papers
			Early Head Start children in grade 5: Long-term followup of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project study sample: Final report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010 (OPRE 2011-8). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A study of the impact of Early Head Start participation and of the influence of children's preschool and later school experiences on parenting, family well-being, and children's academic and socioemotional outcomes in grade 5, based on a longitudinal follow-up of participants in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project	Reports & Papers
			Efforts to meet children's physical activity and nutritional needs: Findings from the I Am Moving, I Am Learning implementation evaluation: Final Report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, February 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Findings from the implementation of I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IM/IL), a Head Start program enhancement intended to increase the amount of time devoted to moderate to vigorous physical activity, improve the quality of structured movement activities, and promote healthy food choices, based on interviews with program administrators of 56 Head Start programs that implemented IM/IL to supplement their curricula	Reports & Papers
			Enhanced Early Head Start with employment services: 42-month impacts from the Kansas and Missouri sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, February, 2012 (OPRE Report 2012-05). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A study of the impact of a program model that incorporates parental employment and educational services into Early Head Start on service receipt, child care and early education experiences, employment, earnings, household income, parenting practices, parental psychological well-being, and child outcomes, based on data collected from 610 families randomly assigned to treatment or control groups at two pilot sites in Kansas and Missouri	Reports & Papers
			Findings from the Survey of Early Head Start Programs: Communities, programs, and families: Final report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2006 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. A study providing a descriptive snapshot of characteristics of Early Head Start programs, including 1) community and family characteristics, 2) programs' approaches to service delivery, 3) program management and staff, 4) program partnerships, and 5) differences among different subgroups of programs, based on a survey of programs to collective quantitative data and site visits to a subsample of programs for in-depth qualitative data collection	Reports & Papers
			Head Start children, families, and programs: Present and past data from FACES United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2011 (OPRE Report 2011-33a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2009, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, and a comparison to profiles from 2000, 2003, and 2006, based on data collected in fall 2009 from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 129 centers, 486 classrooms, and 3,349 children	Reports & Papers
			Head Start Impact Study final report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, January 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A longitudinal study of the effect of Head Start participation on both children's school readiness and the practices of parents, based on data collected from more than 4,600 applicants, randomly assigned to either Head Start or alternate programs, from a nationally representative sample of 378 Head Start centers	Reports & Papers
			Head Start Impact Study: First year findings United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2005 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Preliminary first year findings from the Head Start Impact Study, a congressionally-mandated longitudinal controlled analysis of Head Start programs' impact on the development, learning skills, and school readiness of low income 3- and 4-year-old children, conducted across 23 states and 84 randomly selected Head Start agencies, using a sample of 5,000 children and based on data collected from parent interviews, child assessments, teacher surveys, interviews with center directors and other care providers, direct observations of the quality of care settings, and care provider ratings of children	Reports & Papers
			Head Start Impact Study technical report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, January 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A description of the methodology and surveys used in the Head Start impact study, with a focus on sample design, data collection methods, sampling weights, and measures for children's outcomes and development	Reports & Papers
			Head Start Performance Measures Center Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2000) technical report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2006 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A longitudinal study of the academic and social outcomes of Head Start children during the Head Start years and in kindergarten, based on data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), 2000 Cohort	Reports & Papers
			Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2006: Final report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, February, 2008 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. A study providing findings from the third year of the Head Start Quality Assurance Study, which examined Head Start programs' experiences implementing the Head Start National Reporting System (NRS), including: the quality of their administration of the NRS Child Assessment; their approaches to training staff to conduct the NRS Child Assessment; their use of NRS results for program improvement; and program staff perspectives of the NRS, all based on site visits to a nationally representative sample of 35 Head Start programs	Reports & Papers
			Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2007: Final report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2008 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. A study providing findings from the fourth year of the Head Start Quality Assurance Study, which examined Head Start programs' experiences implementing the Head Start National Reporting System (NRS), including: the quality of their administration of the NRS Child Assessment; their approaches to training staff to conduct the NRS Child Assessment; their experiences with a new NRS social-emotional development component; their use of NRS results for program improvement; and program staff perspectives of the NRS, all based on site visits to a nationally representative sample of 40 Head Start programs with an oversample of American Indian/Alaska Native programs	Reports & Papers
			Implementation of the National Reporting System in Migrant/Seasonal Head Start programs: Year two update: Final report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, November, 2007 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. A study providing findings for Migrant/Seasonal Head Start programs in the second year of the Head Start Quality Assurance Study, which examined Head Start programs' experiences implementing the Head Start National Reporting System (NRS), including: the quality of their administration of the NRS Child Assessment; their approaches to training staff to conduct the NRS Child Assessment; their use of NRS results for program improvement; and program staff perspectives of the NRS, all based on site visits to a sample of eight Migrant/Seasonal Head Start programs	Reports & Papers
			Learning as we go: A first snapshot of Early Head Start programs, staff, families, and children: Vol. I. First report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, February, 2011 (OPRE 2011-7). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A profile of the characteristics of Early Head Start children and families, their home and Early Head Start program environments, and program services and staff in spring 2009, based on data collected from a nationally representative sample of 89 Early Head Start programs and 976 parents of 194 newborns and 782 1-year-olds, as part of the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey, or Baby FACES	Reports & Papers
			Oral health promotion, prevention, & treatment strategies for Head Start families: Early findings from the Oral Health Initiative evaluation: Vol. I. Final interim report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, September 05, 2007 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. 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 two sources	Reports & Papers
			Oral health promotion, prevention, & treatment strategies for Head Start families: Early findings from the Oral Health Initiative evaluation: Vol. II. Site profiles United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, September 05, 2007 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. 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	Reports & Papers
			Results from the "I Am Moving, I Am Learning" stage 1 survey: Final interim report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October 25, 2007 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A study of the implementation of I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IM/IL), a Head Start program enhancement intended to increase the amount of time devoted to moderate to vigorous physical activity, improve the quality of stuctured movement activities, and promote healthy food choices, based on a survey of staff members who had been trained to implement IM/IL in their Head Start program	Reports & Papers
			Strategies for promoting prevention and improving oral health care delivery in Head Start: Findings from the Oral Health Initiative evaluation: Vol I. Final technical report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October 01, 2008 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Final 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 interviews with program directors, a web-based record-keeping system for grantees, and site visits	Reports & Papers
			Third Grade Follow-Up to the Head Start Impact Study: Final report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2012 (OPRE Report 2012-45). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A longitudinal study through the end of third grade of the effects of Head Start participation on parenting practices and on children's cognitive development, socioemotional development, and health, based on data collected for 4,667 randomly-assigned Head Start applicants from a nationally representative sample of 84 Head Start grantees	Reports & Papers

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