The 2005 child care licensing study: Final report
National Association for Regulatory Administration, December 2006
Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration.
A compilation of survey data on state child care licensing programs and policies, including staffing, monitoring, and enforcement, and child care center licensing regulations, for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2005
Reports & Papers
The Build Initiative: Building early learning systems in the states: A report on the third year
Bruner, Charles, April, 2006
Cross Lanes, WV: Building Initiative.
A report on the contributions of the Build Initiative in efforts to build statewide systems of early learning and care
Reports & Papers
Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research?
Scott-Little, Catherine, 2006
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(2), 153-173
An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness
Reports & Papers
Discretion and the administrator: The case of child care reform in Ohio
Slone, Wendy Jay, May 2006
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
An examination of the role of directors at the Ohio County Department of Job and Family Services (CDJFS) and of factors which influence their managerial decisions and capacity to implement policy, with an analysis of a director’s authority to exercise “administrative discretion,” based on qualitative and quantitative data derived from interviews with and questionnaires completed by directors
Reports & Papers
K-2 standards and assessments: A 50-state review
Kauerz, Kristie, June, 2006
Philadelphia: National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force.
A descriptive study of each state's kindergarten, first grade, and second grade content standards and mandatory assessments
Reports & Papers
Strategies to support child care subsidy access and retention: Ideas from seven midwestern states
Snyder, Kathleen, 2006
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
An overview of the child care subsidy policies and strategies in place in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin in 2005, focusing on access to and retention of subsidies
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