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Peer Reviewed JournalCurrent Filters: Pub Year:1998 [remove]; Classification:Child Care & Early Education Services [remove];
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100 children go to school: Connections and disconnections in literacy development in the year prior to school and the first year of school An investigation into the correlation between the acquisition of emergent literacy skills and the early experiences of children in school settings, based on a sample of 100 children from five locations in Australia |
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The Armed Services' response to the Military Child Care Act A review of the Armed Services’ implementation of the Military Child Care Act of 1989 (MCCA), focusing on the policy’s goals of improving the quality, affordability, and availability of child care |
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Background report from Norway: OECD thematic review of early childhood education and care policy A compilation of information on child care and early education policies, funding, quality, equity, availability, workforce, family roles, and environmental influences in Norway, prepared as part of a cross-national review by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) |
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Caring for children with special needs: The Americans with Disabilities Act A discussion of strategies for child care providers in dealing with children with special needs |
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Child care in Sweden An overview of Swedish child care policies and child care options |
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Child day care provision: Explaining local variation An examination of the variations in child care provision and policy influences among British local authorities |
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Developing early childhood programs for children and families at risk: Research-based principles to promote long-term effectiveness A review of eight principles used to promote long-term effectiveness for early childhood interventions and a description of some of the effects of the Chicago Child-Parent Center in order to illustrate the importance of using these principles when designing early childhood interventions |
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Early childhood care and education in Canada: Provinces and territories 1998 A study of Canada’s past and present provincial and federal governmental child care and early education policies and services |
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The educational system in Poland and other central-eastern European countries during the transition period A comparison of the developments and changes in education systems since the early 1990s in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, including school reforms, non-public schools, and structure change |
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Evaluating rural preschool speech-language services: Consumer satisfaction A survey-based investigation of parent satisfaction with speech-language services provided for their preschool children with special needs in a rural area of Canada, focusing on parent satisfaction with intervention format, parent support, and convenience of service |
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Examining the implementation and outcomes of the Military Child Care Act of 1989 A study of the Armed Services’ implementation of the Military Child Care Act of 1989 (MCCA), assessing the implementation of key MCCA provisions, examining the influence of MCCA on military child development centers, identifying and explaining the differences in implementation processes and outcomes across the four military services, examining the MCCA’s influence on both family child care and youth programs, and identifying policies and efforts to further improve the delivery of military child care and youth programs |
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Exploring Indian constructions of the education of young children: A case study A case study of a traditional Indian preschool based upon participant observation and ethnographic interviewing |
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Facts and figures about early childhood and youth education in Denmark An overview of the provisions and funding of programs and philosophies behind Denmark's early childhood education. |
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Family centered child care: Where have we been and where are we going? A historical overview of and conceptual framework for family centered child care |
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Head Start: Challenges faced in demonstrating program results and responding to societal changes: Statement of Carlotta C. Joyner, Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division Congressional testimony on the ability of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that Head Start meets its purpose and on the challenges facing Head Start as a result of societal changes since the 1960s |
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Head Start programs: Participant characteristics, services, and funding A study of several factors of the Head Start program, including the number of participants, participants' characteristics, services provided, service delivery methods, federal and non-federal dollars received and spent, and other programs providing similar early childhood services |
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Head Start reauthorization: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second session, Hearing held in Washington, DC, June 9, 1998 A hearing on the evaluation and effectiveness of Head Start and a discussion on ways to improve the program so that disadvantaged children are entering school at an age-appropriate level. |
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Improving services for children in working families A compilation of state initiatives to improve access to quality child care for working families, including strategies involving financial incentives to child care programs, raising state standards, and expanding prekindergarten programs |
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Influences on neighborhood supply of child care in Massachusetts An analysis of regional child care demand in Massachusetts as associated with demographic characteristics |
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Informing ourselves about early childhood services A discussion of the inadequacy of information on child care supply, demand, and workforce, as well as on parents' perspectives about services in the United Kingdom and its effects on child care policy and practice. |
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Investing in child care: Challenges facing working parents and the private sector response A discussion of private sector businesses’ best practices in promoting accessible, affordable, and high quality child care for their employees |
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Making childcare work An analysis of the impact of the 1993 Out of School Initiative to increase child care services for school age children as it relates to mothers’ involvement in the labor market in the United Kingdom |
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A map for you?: Geographic information systems in the social services A presentation of geographic information systems and its illustrative application to the social services, such as creating a map showing child care service providers’ location and characteristics and mapping the ratio of child care slots to the number of children in a population to locate areas with potential service-availability gaps |
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Measuring the impact of child care subsidies on the incomes of mothers returning to work A study of the use of child care services and the provision of child care subsidies in reducing the financial barriers that make returning to work difficult for mothers in Australia |
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Mexico's preschools: Coverage, equity and impact An investigation of the relation between preschool attendance and children's primary school readiness and performance, maternal labor force participation, and implications of equity between genders |
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