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			The 2003 California child care portfolio California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, 2004 San Francisco: California Child Care Resource and Referral Network. A report providing statewide and county-by-county statistics regarding child care supply and demand, costs, and current policy trends in the state of California	Other
			2004 supplement to Making care less taxing National Women's Law Center, 2004 Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center. A chart supplementing Appendix A of the 2002 report, ''Making Care Less Taxing: Improving State Child and Dependent Care Tax Provisions,'' which describes state child and dependent care for tax year 2003	Other
			AEU submission to the independent inquiry into the provision of universal access to high quality preschool education Australian Education Union, 2004 Southbank, Victoria: Australian Education Union. A description of the state of universal access to high quality preschool education in Australia by the Australian Education Union in response to an independent inquiry	Other
			Aligning public finance systems: How can we most effectively maximize resources and build cohesive early care and education systems at the state level? Mitchell, Anne W., 2004 A brief examining the linkages among different components of a high quality early care and education system of financing, program, and practitioner standards	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 3. New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004 Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in New Zealand, Portugal, and Switzerland affect parents trying to balance work and family life	Reports & Papers
			Benefits of quality child-care environments Kids Count North Dakota (Project), 2004 North Dakota KIDS COUNT Inform, 2(6). A summary of the benefits of quality child care environments in North Dakota	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Between a rock and a hard place: Teachers' experiences in meeting the Abbott mandate Ackerman, Debra J., 2004 In S. Reifel & M.H. Brown (Eds.), Advances in early education and day care: Vol. 13. Social contexts of early education, and reconceptualizing play (pp. 93-136). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press A description of five early childhood teachers' experiences in meeting the New Jersey court mandate for teachers in the community based Abbott preschools to obtain Bachelor�s degrees and Preschool-Grade 3 certification	Other
			Building bridges: A comprehensive system for healthy development and school readiness Halfon, Neal, 2004 (Building State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Series No. 1). University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy. A discussion of the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (SECCS) Initiative; a policy designed to improve early childhood programs to ensure that all children arrive at school healthy and ready to learn	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Building bridges: A comprehensive system for healthy development and school readiness Halfon, Neal, 2004 (Building State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Series No. 1). University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy. A presentation of a set of principles that states can use to advance their planning process, reach out to new partners, develop collaborative strategies, and build a foundation for the implementation phase of the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (SECCS) initiative	Reports & Papers
			Building bridges from prekindergarten to infants and toddlers: A preliminary look at issues in four states Lombardi, Joan, 2004 Washington, DC: Zero to Three Policy Center. A brief exploring infant-toddler and prekindergarten interactions through interviews with early childhood leaders in Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York	Other
			Building community systems for young children: Early childhood education Bassok, Daphna, 2004 (Building State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Series No. 11). University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy. A discussion of the importance of early care and education quality, access and parenting education	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			A call for universal preschool Smith, Rosa A., 2004 Educational Leadership, 62(3), 38-39 A discussion of the benefits of implementing a universal preschool program providing high quality early education to all children in the United States	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			CCLC Initial Response to the California Performance Review (CPR) Child Care Law Center, 2004 San Francisco: Child Care Law Center. A response to the child care provisions, with comments on specific proposals, in the California Performance Review, an initiative to restructure and reform state government.	Other
			Child care and early education: The effects of regulation on the quality of early care and education Ochshorn, Susan, March, 2004 (Child Care and Early Education: Research and Policy Series Report No. 3). Washington, DC: National Conference of State Legislatures A review of recent research and policy on child care and early education program regulation, including information on current state regulatory strategies and processes in areas such as staff child ratios, staff training, safety, and physical environments	Other
			Child care and early education: Infant and toddler care: Meeting the needs of families with options that work Rigby, Dawn Elizabeth, 2004 Washington, DC: National Conference of State Legislatures A review of research on infant and toddler care in a variety of settings identifying promising state policy strategies and highlighting options for policymakers who aim to improve the affordability, availability, quality and coordination of infant and toddler care in their state	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Childcare as a work support, a child-focused intervention, and a job Raver, C. Cybele, 2004 In Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children (pp. 179-190). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. A chapter suggesting child care providers' occupational stress may interfere with their ability to provide children with quality care	Other
			Child care: A crucial legislative issue Cohen, Sally S., 2004 Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 18(6), 312-314 An overview of child care legislation, with arguments for the reauthorization of the Child Care Development Block Grant	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Childcare for low-income families: Problems and promise Zaslow, Martha, 2004 In Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children (pp. 191-200). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. A discussion of two major child care policy strands: provide funding to child care to facilitate maternal employment and provide funding to child care and early education to enhance children's cognitive and social development	Other
			Child care for low-income families: Problems and promises Huston, Aletha C., 2004 In Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children (pp. 139-164). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. A discussion of the challenges faced by low income families seeking high quality child care, based on data from the Next Generation Project.	Other
			Child care policies in diverse European welfare states Daguerre, Anne, 2004 Paper presented at the 14th biennial meeting of the International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago. An analysis of the role of gender in child care policy agenda setting and formation in Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and France since the 1990s.	Other
			Childcare subsidies and the transition from welfare to work Danziger, Sandra K., 2004 Family Relations, 53(2), 219-228 A study of the relationship between child care subsidy receipt and mothers' work experiences of welfare recipients in an urban Michigan county	Reports & Papers
			Children at the centre: An evaluation of early excellence centres Great Britain. Office for Standards in Education (England), June 2004 (Reference No. HMI 2222). London: Office for Standards in Education. An evaluation of the quality, standards, leadership, and management of 23 Early Excellence Centres (EECs) in the United Kingdom, an identification of effective practices used by EECs, and recommendations for areas needing improvement	Other
			Children at Risk in the Child Welfare System: Collaborations to Promote School Readiness Ward, Helen D., 2004 Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, Institute for Child and Family Policy A case study examining the extent to which the child welfare, early care and education, and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) early intervention systems are collaborating to promote the school readiness needs of children under age five in the child welfare system in Colorado. The study is based on field interviews with approximately 150 key agency staff and survey interviews with approximately 500 foster parents and 200 child welfare caseworkers, and explores: (1) barriers to and facilitators of collaboration at the state, county and local levels; and (2) the degree to which children in the child welfare system are being linked to the IDEA early intervention and early care and education (ECE) programs. This research informs policy and program choices about best practices and models for how the multiple agencies which provide these services can coordinate their efforts.	Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
			Children with disabilities in Head Start: The case of the Crestview Head Start program Jessup, Patricia A., 2004 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A study of the policies and classroom practices used by the Crestview Head Start program that have helped to effectively implement a fully inclusive early education program	Reports & Papers
			A comparison of early childhood education systems in Japan and the United States York, Shizue, 2004 Unpublished master's thesis, Marshall University, Huntington, WV An observational investigation comparing the United States' early education system with Japan's, focusing on government involvement, child care affordability, regulations, and curricula	Reports & Papers

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