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Afterschool programs in Vermont: Supporting success for all students An overview of the features of high-quality after school programs, with a discussion of examples from Vermont |
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Attending kindergarten and already behind: A statistical portrait of vulnerable young children An analysis of vulnerable kindergarten students during the 1998-1999 school year using data from the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort. |
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Better strategies for babies: Strengthening the caregivers and families of infants and toddlers An overview of state and local efforts to provide assistance to low income parents, currently in or moving into the workforce, in the areas of infant and toddler child care, healthy parent child relationships, and economic security |
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The Caring for Quality Project: Supporting and connecting home-based child care providers Prelimary findings from an evaluation of the Caring for Quality Project, which supports and connects licensed and informal family child care providers through home visits and networking meetings |
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Caring for Rhode Island's infants and toddlers An issue brief discussing factors related to the healthy development and school readiness of infants and toddlers in Rhode Island. |
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Child care assistance policies 2005: States fail to make up lost ground, families continue to lack critical support Descriptions of child care financial assistance policies and tables of child care subsidy eligibility criteria state-by-state for the United States, 2001-2005 |
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Child care by kith and kin: Supporting family, friends and neighbors caring for children A summary of research on family, friend, and neighbor child care, including traditional policies, innovative program strategies, and outreach recommendations for states and local communities |
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Childcare centers and inter-organizational ties in high poverty neighborhoods A determination of the inter-organizational partnerships of child care centers, and the extent that centers use these relationships to offer additional resources to parents, based on information from 23 child care centers in New York City |
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Child care in the era of welfare reform: Quality, choices, and preferences An examination of the child care experiences of low income families in Boston, Chicago and San Antonio, and a discussion of the types of child care settings used to meet needs and preferences of families |
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Child care in Kansas: A short-term opportunity to achieve long-term improvements A discussion of the Child Care Assistance Program, the child care subsidy program in Kansas, and of federal funding for child care in Kansas |
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Child care subsidies promote mothers' employment and children's development An exploration of factors associated with the occupational outcomes of urban low income mothers, including child care problems, household characteristics, type of child care used, race/ethnicity, neighborhood characteristics, welfare status, and subsidy usage, based on data collected from a sample of 1,072 low income mothers from poor Philadelphia neighborhoods |
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Child care use by low-income families: Variations across states A state-by-state and national analysis of features of the child care arrangements of low-income families, including child care type and parents' experiences with child care problems, based on the state and nationally representative 2003 National Survey of Children's Health |
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Children cared for by relatives: Who are they and how are they faring? An investigation into the well-being of children living in non-parental family arrangements, based of data from the National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF) |
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Children in low-income families are less likely to be in center-based child care A brief comparing the child care arrangements of children under five from high- and low-income families. |
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Children of current and former welfare recipients: Similarly at risk A brief comparing the children of welfare recipients and welfare leavers on indicators of health, social behavior, and school engagement |
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Can home visiting increase the quality of home-based child care?: Findings from the Caring for Quality Project Findings from an evaluation of the Caring for Quality Project, which supports and connects licensed and informal family child care providers through home visits and networking meetings |
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Closing achievement gaps A brief proposing the gap between white and ethnic minority children's academic achievement would disappear if disadvantaged children were exposed to high quality early childhood education programs |
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Declines in spending on early education and care in Massachusetts An overview of trends in state and federal funding for early education and care in Massachusetts |
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Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success A description of Early Head Start services that address the specific needs of teenage parents |
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Early learning left out: Public spending on children's education and development in Illinois: A report on local, state and federal expenditures in FY 2003 A highlight of the level of public investment made in the development of Illinois children from birth through college for fiscal year 2003 at the local, state, and federal levels |
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The effects of welfare reform policies on children: Lessons from MFIP (Minnesota Family Investment Program) An overview of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), which offered financial work incentives for single parents on welfare, with a summary of the program's effects on single mothers and their children |
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Every child, every school: Success from the start An overview of education finance reform that restores equity and adequacy in early childhood programs in Pennsylvania |
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Financial resources for child care A brief on the sources of funding for child care systems and on ways in which the funds may be used |
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High quality child care for Pennsylvania infants and toddlers A summary of initiatives to improve the quality of infant and toddler child care in the state of Pennsylvania |
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How contextual constraints affect low-income working parents' child care choices Findings from a study of low-income parents' child care decisionmaking that examine parents' views on the supply of child care options in their communities, sources of information about their options, and barriers to access, based on in-depth qualitative interviews with parents in 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and Seattle-White Center, Washington |
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