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21st Century Community Learning Centers state evaluation: Implementation report: January-June 2003
Sturdevant Reed, Celeste, February, 2004
East Lansing: Michigan State University, University Outreach and Engagement.

An implementation evaluation of Michigan's first 21st Community Learning Centers, a federally-funded out-of-school time program, based on program documents and administrator surveys and interviews

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21st Century Community Learning Centers state evaluation: Mid-year implementation report: July 2003-February 2004
Bates, Laura V., 10 February, 2004
East Lansing: Michigan State University, University Outreach and Engagement.

An implementation evaluation of Michigan's 21st Community Learning Centers, a federally-funded out-of-school time program, based on program director surveys

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Analyzing social experiments as implemented: A reexamination of the evidence from the High Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J., July, 2010
Quantitative Economics, 1(1), 1-46

A reanalysis of data from the Perry Preschool Project, a longitudinal experimental study of the impact of a preschool education and home visitation intervention on over 715 measured outcome variables of disadvantaged children in preschool, based on data from participants from age 3 through age 40

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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

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Assessing Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) investments in child care quality
Porter, Toni, 2002
New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum. (No longer accessible as of August 16, 2012)

A catalog, directory, and report on the evaluations of 104 local and state child care quality improvement initiatives funded through the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)

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Benefit-cost analysis of the Perry Preschool Program and its policy implications
Barnett, W. Steven, 1985
Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 7(4), 333-342

A benefit-cost analysis of the Perry Preschool project, a discussion of its net value, and implications for future policy decisions

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Benefits, costs, and explanation of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Schweinhart, Lawrence J., 2003
Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, Florida.

A paper on the long-term effects and cost benefits of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

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Changed lives: The effects of the Perry Preschool Program on youths through age 19
Berrueta-Clement, John R., 1984
(Monographs of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation No. 8). Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope Press

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Child care for children in poverty: Opportunity or inequality?
Phillips, Deborah A., 1991
Child Development, 65(1), 472-492

A study of child care quality in child care centers serving children from low-income families, its relationship to type of center-based programming, and its comparability to child care quality in centers serving upper- and middle-income families, based on data from the nationally representative Profile of Child Care Settings study and the National Child Care Staffing Study, which collected observational data on child care quality in 227 child care centers in five cities

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Child care health consultation initiatives: A status report
United States. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, December, 2006
Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Healthy Child Care Consultant Network Support Center. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012)

A study profiling child care health consultant initiatives in the states and territories and examining factors associated with successfully implementing and sustaining these initiatives

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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

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Child care subsidies, wages, and employment of single mothers
Tekin, Erdal, 2002
Unpublished manuscript, Georgia State University, Atlanta

An analysis of the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment and child care decisions among single mothers in the early post-welfare reform period, using data from the National Survey of America's Families

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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

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Cost savings analysis of school readiness in Michigan
Chase, Richard A., November, 2009
Lansing, MI: Early Childhood Investment Corporation.

An analysis of the costs to Michigan for the provision of school readiness and early education programs, and an estimation of the future benefits generated from the state's early childhood investments

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Cost savings of school readiness per additional at-risk child in Detroit and Michigan
Chase, Richard A., December, 2011
Southfield, MI: Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation.

An examination of cost savings to Detroit and Michigan of preparing an at risk child for school through early childhood education, based on school graduation and expenditure data, poverty and crime rates, and other data for Detroit and Michigan, and on estimates of the measured influence of early childhood education programs from research literature

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Cultural aspects of preschool education: Ojibwa, Odawa and Potawatomi Indian children's ''ways of knowing and communicating'' in early intervention and Head Start programs
Jircitano, Lois M.B., 2001
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo

An ethnographic interview-based investigation of how Anishinabe values and beliefs affect instructional strategies, learning methods, and student teacher relationships in the Inter-Tribal Council Early Intervention and Head Start programs

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Determinants of child care arrangements: Parental preferences and constraints
Christian, Patricia, 1996
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Brown University, Providence, RI

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Does child care assistance matter?: The effects of welfare and employment programs on child care for preschool- and young school-aged children
Crosby, Danielle A., 2001
(The Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 3). New York: MDRC.

An examination of the effects of welfare and employment policies on child care outcomes for single parents, and their preschool- to young school-aged children, using data from experimental programs implemented between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s

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Early learning left out: An examination in public investments in education and development by child age
Voices for America's Children, 2004
Washington, DC: Voices for America's Children. (No longer accessible as of December 7, 2012).

A report comparing levels of public investment in early learning to investment in education for other age groups across 12 states

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An economic analysis of the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project
Weber, C. U., 1978
(Monographs of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation No. 5). Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope Press

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The effects of welfare and employment policies on child care use by low-income young mothers
Gassman-Pines, Anna, 2003
(Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 19). New York: MDRC.

A study examining the welfare and employer child care policies on low income young mothers, using data from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS), Florida’s Family Transition Program (FTP) and the Minnesota’s Family Investment Program (MFIP)

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Enhancing self-regulation as a strategy for obesity prevention in Head Start preschoolers: The Growing Healthy study
Miller, Alison, 30 November, 2012
BMC Public Health, 12, 1-9

An examination of the effectiveness and feasibility of two obesity prevention interventions--the Preschool Obesity Prevention Series (POPS) and POPS plus the Incredible Years Series (IYS), an evidence-based approach to improving self-regulation among preschool-aged children, delivered by community-based nutrition educators and Head Start staff to low income preschoolers and their parents, based on data from 600 low income Michigan Head Start preschoolers and their parents

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Even Start: Facilitating transitions to kindergarten
United States. Department of Education. Planning and Evaluation Service, 1997
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Planning and Evaluation Service.

A study describing the transition-to-school strategies implemented by the Even Start Family Literacy Program, identifying the most successful of these strategies, and providing data and recommendations to improve the design of transition strategies, based on data collected on Even Start projects operating in 1993-1994 and from site visits to five projects showing promising transition strategies

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An examination of child care subsidies and their impact on families with infants and toddlers
Brookes, Sheila J., 2002
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri--Columbia

A qualitative investigation of the influence of child care subsidy policy on the lives of low-income parents and families, based on interviews with parents receiving Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), Early Head Start and Head Start professionals, administrators, and social service professionals

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Family service delivery in Early Head Start: Perspectives of professionals in six states
Zhang, Chun, 2000
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A discussion of the obstacles in delivering family service programs to families in Early Head Start programs, based on interviews with 43 Early Head Start directors and surveys of 206 staff members in six Midwestern states

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