Back to basics: Essential components of an American early care and education system
An exploration of the elements required to create a quality system of early childhood education and care services in the United States
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Blurring the boundaries: Local collaborations among Head Start, preschool, and child care programs
A discussion of trends in the partnerships between local Head Start, child care and other early childhood education and care programs, with strategies for using public policy to facilitate the creation of local partnerships
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Challenges and opportunities in after-school programs: Lessons for policymakers and funders
An exploration of the incorporation of after-school programs into public buildings, based on an evaluation of the Extended-Service Schools (ESS) Adaptation Initiative of 60 programs in 17 cities across the United States
Other
The context of early childhood collaboration: A comparison of New York and Virginia
A brief report comparing the early childhood policy and programming in two states, highlighting how particular state policy contexts impact the collaborations between Head Start, prekindergarten, preschool and child care programs
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Early childhood education in Virginia
An overview of Virginia’s approach to early childhood education and care, with a focus on the preschool initiative, Head Start, and provider partnerships
Reports & Papers
Massachusetts Research, Analysis, and Evaluation Project
A project to establish a state-of-the-art early care and education data warehouse and build a Research Analysis and Evaluation Unit within the Office of Child Care Services (OCCS). The warehouse integrates data sets from many sources, including state administrative databases, census data, and state initiated research efforts. Along with the development of in-house expertise in research and analysis, the warehouse supports the evaluation of state quality program initiatives, such as tiered rate increases, and assessments of the longitudinal impact of program quality on school readiness.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
OECD report identifies policy lessons for early childhood education
An overview of the integration and coordination of early childhood education and care policy in Australia
Fact Sheets & Briefs
The paradoxes and promise of community coalitions
A discussion of the characteristics of community coalitions as organizations that can promote community change, protect the status quo, and empower grassroots leadership and marginalized groups through their ability to transform conflict into community capacity
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Starting early, starting now: A policymaker's guide to early care & education and school success
A presentation on the development and implementation of more effective quality early childhood education policies and systems
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Starting early, starting now: A policymaker's guide to early care & education and school success [Executive summary]
A summary of a presentation on the development and implementation of more effective quality early childhood education policies and systems
Executive Summary
Starting Points: State and community partnerships for young children
A discussion of projects started by the Starting Points Initiative, with a focus of programs developing state and community partnerships working towards improving the lives of young children
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State initiatives to promote early learning: Next steps in coordinating subsidized child care, Head Start, and state prekindergarten
This document addresses the expanded funding for subsidized child care, the Head Start program, and in some states, prekindergarten initiatives. It describes the challenges facing Georgia, Massachusetts and Ohio in addressing the need to provide work supports for families and the need to address school readiness for all children. The paper also offers recommendations to these states.
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States can encourage early childhood partnerships
A summary of states' role in early childhood policy and programming, and suggestions for collaboration initiatives and partnership building
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Taking action: What state officials can do to promote public-private child care partnerships
A description of the role of policymakers in building effective partnerships between public and private child care sectors
Other
Third national Even Start evaluation: Description of projects and participants: Executive summary
A description of Even Start projects and their participants from 1997-1998 through 1998-1999
Executive Summary
What can we learn about child care policy from public investments in children's health?
A comparison of child health policy to child care policy, with an emphasis on the role of the family and children’s well-being
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