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
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Effects of a preschool plus follow-on intervention for children at risk
Reynolds, Arthur J., 1994
Developmental Psychology, 30(6), 787-804
An article on the effects of the Chicago Child Parent Center and Expansion Program, a comprehensive early intervention for children from low-income families, on school adjustment two years postprogram.
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Expanding access to Early Head Start: State initiatives for infants & toddlers at risk
Colvard, Jamie, September, 2012
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.
A study of state efforts to expand and enhance Early Head Start services, based on interviews with Head Start-state collaboration administrators in 23 states
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Inside the pre-kindergarten door: Classroom climate and instructional time allocation in Tulsa's pre-k programs
Phillips, Deborah A., May 2009
(CROCUS Working Paper No. 13). Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.
A study of classroom climate and academic instruction in public prekindergarten programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a comparison of classroom climate and academic instruction in Tulsa prekindergarten classrooms to classroom processes in Head Start and other state prekindergarten classrooms, and an examination of classroom and teacher characteristics associated with variations in classroom climate and academic instruction
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State-based home visiting: Strengthening programs through state leadership
Johnson, Kay, February, 2009
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty.
A study of the characteristics of state-based home visiting programs, including their structure, financing, and design, and of state efforts to strengthen programs, based on a survey of state program staff and administrators and on a roundtable discussion
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Ways of caring: How relative caregivers support children and parents
Bromer, Juliet, 2005
In R. Rice (Ed.), Perspectives on family, friend and neighbor child care: Research, programs and policy (Occasional Paper Series No. 15, pp. 14-21). New York: Bank Street College of Education.
An investigation of the support roles of African American relatives as child care providers in poor Chicago neighborhoods, citing interviews with 9 grandmothers and 1 aunt who offered full time child care to at least one relative child
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