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			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 2007 Child Care Licensing Study: Final report National Child Care Information Center (U.S.), February, 2009 Lexington, KY: National Association for Regulatory Administration. A compilation of survey data on state licensing programs and policies for child care centers and small and large family child care homes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2007	Reports & Papers
			Achieving a state of healthy weight: A national assessment of obesity prevention terminology in child care regulations 2010 National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care (U.S.), January, 2011 Aurora, CO: National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care. A study of the extent to which state child care regulations meet standards related to obesity prevention in the areas of infant feeding, nutrition, and physical activity	Reports & Papers
			All together now: State experiences in using community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten Schumacher, Rachel, 2005 Paper presented at the the Brookings Institution-University of North Carolina conference on Creating a national plan for the education of 4-year-olds, Washington, DC. A discussion of the findings from a survey of 29 states that examines the policies, opportunities, and challenges associated with including community-based child care providers in states' prekindergarten programs	Reports & Papers
			Are state child care regulations meeting national oral health and nutritional standards? Kim, Juhee, July/August 2012 Pediatric Dentistry, 34(4), 317-324 A study of state child care regulations in the United States in terms of their inclusion of selected oral health and nutrition standards related to early childhood dental cavities, based on a review of regulations in 50 states and the District of Columbia, from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education	Reports & Papers
			Building momentum--taking action: Southern states collaborate on child care financial aid and quality initiatives Southern Regional Initiative on Child Care, 2002 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. A summary of efforts to implement the Southern Regional Task Force on Child Care Action plan to improve access to child care assistance for low income families in the South, based on a survey of Task Force members and summaries of a regional child care forum and state site visits	Reports & Papers
			Championing success: Business organizations for early childhood investments ReadyNation, 2013 Washington, DC: ReadyNation. A study of the early childhood policy and advocacy efforts of formal business membership organizations, based on survey responses from 104 local chambers of commerce and from 121 state business roundtables, state chambers of commerce, and city chambers of commerce	Reports & Papers
			Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) report to Congress: Submitted January 2003 United States. Child Care Bureau, 2003 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families. A report providing various state and federal information regarding the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Defining and measuring quality: An in-depth study of five child care quality rating and improvement systems United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011 (OPRE Report 2011-29). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. An examination of aspects of child care quality rating and improvement systems related to definitions and measures of quality, including variation in definitions and measures, processes to measure each component and determine the overall level of quality, and availability of data on quality ratings, based on in-depth case studies in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Measuring quality across three child care quality rating and improvement systems: Findings from secondary analyses United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011 (OPRE Report 2011-30). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A study of the prevalence of quality components among participating child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) providers and their relationship to observed quality, based on analyses of QRIS administrative data, professional development registries, and observation data in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee	Reports & Papers
			Child care: Recent state policy changes affecting the availability of assistance for low-income families United States. General Accounting Office, 2003 (GAO-03-588). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office. An examination of state policy developments affecting the availability of child care assistance for low-income families	Reports & Papers
			Child care services in the JOBS program Hagen, Jan, 2004 Children and Youth Services Review, 26(8), 697-710 A study on the implementation of child care services under the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program from 1990 to 1992 in 10 states.	Reports & Papers
			Child care: State efforts to enforce safety and health requirements United States. Government Accountability Office, 2004 (GAO-04-786). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office. A report by the Government Accountability Office to House Representative Sander M Levin regarding the regulation of child care health and safety requirements in states supported by the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)	Reports & Papers
			Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992 Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund A study of the Head Start program�s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group	Reports & Papers
			Coaching and quality assistance in quality rating improvement systems: Approaches used by TA providers to improve quality in early care and education programs and home-based settings Smith, Sheila, January, 2012 New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty. A study of the features of on-site technical assistance and coaching provided by state child care quality rating and improvement system technical assistance providers, based on interviews with 34 technical assistance providers in 17 states	Reports & Papers
			Collective management of early childhood programs: Approaches that aim to maximize efficiency, help improve quality and stabilize the industry Stoney, Louise, 2004 Raleigh, NC: Smart Start National Technical Assistance Center. A report presenting a catalog of collective management approaches currently used by child care services across the United States	Reports & Papers
			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	Reports & Papers
			A comparative enforcement study: Survey report of negative enforcement options and practices National Association for Regulatory Administration, 1998 Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration. A survey of the negative enforcement practices used by regulatory agencies on adult assisted-living, child care, and child residential care licensing programs in the United States and Canada	Reports & Papers
			Comparison of quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) with Department of Defense standards for quality National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, August 2009 Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. An analysis of the conformity of quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) in 19 states with the standards of quality for child care as set by the Department of Defense	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
			A count for quality: Child care center directors on rating and improvement systems Schulman, Karen, 2012 Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center. A study of child care center directors' views of child care quality rating and improvement systems and their components, based on interviews with 48 directors from 9 states and a roundtable forum with 15 of the 48 directors	Reports & Papers
			Downward slide: State child care assistance policies 2012 Schulman, Karen, 2012 Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center. A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2011 and February 2012 and between 2001 and February 2012, including changes to income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent copayments, reimbursement rates, and assistance to parents searching for a job, based on a survey of child care administrators in each state and the District of Columbia	Reports & Papers
			Emerging trends in child care regulation Gazan, Harold S., 1997 Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration. A discussion of recent trends in the regulation of child care, focusing on the increase or decrease in the amount of child care centers regulated, licensing approval waiting time, welfare reform influences on regulation, among others, based on a survey completed by 26 states and the District of Columbia	Reports & Papers
			Estimates of child care eligibility and receipt for fiscal year 2009 United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, December, 2012 Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. An examination of children's eligibility for and receipt of federal child care subsidies under federal parameters and state-defined rules	Reports & Papers

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