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			21st Century Community Learning Centers: Evaluation of projects funded during the 2004-2005 school year Texas Education Agency, February, 2007 Austin, TX: Texas Education Agency. An examination of the impact of children�s participation in after school learning programs, created or expanded pursuant to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, on their academic performance in various categories	Reports & Papers
			21st Century Community Learning Centers: Evaluation of projects funded for the 2003-04 school year Texas Education Agency, January, 2005 Austin, TX: Texas Education Agency. An examination of the impact of children�s participation in after school learning programs, created or expanded pursuant to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, on their academic performance in various categories	Reports & Papers
			An analysis of a public school prekindergarten Montessori bilingual program Rodriguez, Linda, 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX An analysis of second grade reading achievement scores of Spanish and English norm-referenced tests between children who participated in a Montessori bilingual program and those that attended a traditional bilingual program	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
			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)	Reports & Papers
			Assistive technology user group perspectives of early childhood professionals Parette, Howard P., June 2009 Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 44(2), 257-270 An examination of efficacy of participatiing in a series of Assistive Technology user groups from semi-structured interviews with 10 teachers at an early childhood center in a Midwestern city	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
			The child care and employment decision-making processes of expecting parents Johnson, Elizabeth, 2001 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin A study of the child care and employment decision making processes of expecting parents	Reports & Papers
			Child care disruptions and working mothers: An experience sampling method approach Foster, Jessica Bigazzi, 2003 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Rice University, Houston, TX A study using an experience sampling method to examine child care related interruptions for employed mothers with children in child care, and effects of these interruptions on employment	Reports & Papers
			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	Reports & Papers
			Child care in the American South: Poverty, costs, and quality Collins, Vikki K., Spring 2012 Early Childhood Research & Practice, 14(1) A study of the relationship between the use of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) in southern states and family poverty, child care costs, and a variety of related socioeconomic variables, based on data from the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010, for 14 southern states	Reports & Papers
			Child care in the southern states: Expanding access to affordable care for low-income families and fostering economic development Stoney, Louise, 2000 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. An overview of the financial status of child care in southern United States, which argues that, by allowing both parents to work, child care has contributed to the economic expansion of the nation	Reports & Papers
			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	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
			Children's experiences in family child care and relative care as a function of family income and ethnicity Kontos, Susan, 1997 Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 386-403 A study of the role of family variables like ethnicity and income in the choice between family or relative child care arrangements, and the relationship between family variables and child care provider behavior and quality	Reports & Papers
			A comparative study of teachers' educational backgrounds and their understanding of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) Seaborn, Shirley J., 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Texas Southern University, Houston A survey-based investigation of the impact of Texan Head Start teachers' educational backgrounds on their perceptions of developmentally appropriate practice indicators in early education classrooms	Reports & Papers
			Comparing universal and targeted prekindergarten programs Dotterer, Aryn M., 2009 In R.C. Pianta & C. Howes (Eds.), The promise of pre-k (pp. 65-76). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes A comparison of classroom characteristics and preschooler achievement outcomes in universal and targeted pre-k programs based on a sample of over 400 children in over 800 classrooms	Reports & Papers
			Determining the feasibility and acceptability of a garden-based nutrition curriculum for preschoolers Lewis, Tamara Michelle, December 2009 Unpublished master's thesis, University of Texas, Houston A feasibility study of a classroom-based gardening curriculum for early care and education programs from pre- and post-implementation teacher questionnaires with 9 teachers or teachers' aides in two Head Start centers serving 103 preschoolers	Reports & Papers
			Dimensions of quality: Teachers' beliefs and practices in Texas public prekindergartens Kelly, Katherine Taddie, 1997 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of North Texas, Denton	Reports & Papers
			The Director's Mentoring Project: An analysis of the experiences of mentors and proteges and the impact of mentoring on selected child care centers in San Antonio, Texas Castillo, Cathleen F., 2004 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University, College Station An inquiry into the use of mentoring to promote change and increased quality in child care programs in San Antonio, Texas, based on data from participants in the Director�s Mentoring Project	Reports & Papers
			The early childhood block grant: A biography of Arizona's early childhood education program Nagasawa, Mark, 2010 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University, Phoenix A case study of Arizona's early childhood education program policy in the early 1990s that includes a comparison of Arizona's policy with those of Georgia, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, Illinois, and North Carolina, based on archival sources and interviews with informants	Reports & Papers
			Early effects of the Healthy Steps for Young Children program Minkovitz, Cynthia Schaffer, 2001 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 155(4), 470-479 An evaluation of the implementation and effects of The Healthy Steps for Young Children Program for children aged 2 to 4, focusing on services received, satisfaction with services, and parent practices	Reports & Papers
			Effectiveness of a colonia educational intervention Vincent, Vern, 2001 Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science, 23(2), 229-238 An evaluation of the effects of an after school educational intervention on the self-esteem and health locus of control of seven- to 12-year-old Hispanic children living in a colonia, an unincorporated subdivision lacking the infrastructure to support its residents	Reports & Papers
			Effect of early educational intervention on younger siblings: The Infant Health and Development Program McCormick, Marie C., October, 2012 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 166(10), 891-896 A study of the relationship between participation of an older sibling in an early intervention program and the younger sibling's measures of intelligence, youth behavioral problems, and expectations of the future, based on data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), an eight-site randomized trial of three years of early education for premature low-birth-weight infants who were followed up through age 18, and 229 siblings of participating children born within 5 years of the IHDP study participants	Reports & Papers
			The effect of extending the pre-kindergarten school day on literacy and language development for English language learners deVezin, Jeanne, March 04, 2010 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX A study of the relationship between extended-day bilingual preschool participation and both language and reading levels as well as reading gains in both Spanish and English of 41 bilingual prekindergarten children and a second study of the relationship of extended-day bilingual preschool participation and both receptive and expressive language skills at the end of prekindergarten for 121 children in a large suburban school district in Texas	Reports & Papers

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