Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children
An identification of two routines profiles--structured-balanced and high free choice, derived from varying proportions of teacher-directed and child-initiated activities during the preschool day, and a study of the relationship between those routine profiles and structural program characteristics, measures of process quality, children's engagement in activities of various academic contents, teachers' instructional strategies, and children's school readiness skills, based on data from 53 public preschool classrooms, 47 private preschool classrooms, and 25 family child care homes that serve low-income children in Los Angeles, California
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Addressing the affordability gap: Framing child care as economic development
A discussion of child care as a pillar of economic development
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Addressing challenging behaviors in Head Start: A closer look at program policies and procedures
An examination of Head Start policies and procedures related to child guidance and challenging behaviors, based on interviews with program staff and document analysis from 6 Head Start programs in the Midwest
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Adjustment Scales for Preschool Intervention
Instruments
The association between preschool children's social functioning and their emergent academic skills
A study of the relationship between social functioning and emergent academic development that includes an examination of gender, ethnicity, and children's feelings about school as moderators of that relationship, based on data from 467 preschool children from 84 classrooms at 44 different centers, as part of a larger study on preventing academic and externalizing difficulties
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Beginning school for children at risk
A review of why the transition to school is considered an important period for scientific inquiry, educational improvement, and societal concern
Other
Beliefs about Implementing Literacy Skills Scale
Instruments
Boys, girls, and "two cultures" of child care
A comparison of child care quality differences by gender, and an exploration of the contributions of gender composition of the child care setting, child behavior, and structural, global, and care giving quality to those overall differences, based on data from a subset of 66 toddlers, between the ages of 24 and 35 months, from the Temperament Over Time Study (TOTS)
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Care neglect, supervisory neglect, and harsh parenting in the development of children's aggression: A replication and extension
A study investigating the effects of poor supervision, parental neglect, and punitive parenting on the development of children's aggression
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A case study of collaboration among an Early Head Start program, early intervention agencies and families for the provision of services to infants and toddlers with disabilities
An investigation of the degree and extent to which collaboration among an Early Head Start program and Part C programs occurred as these agencies served infants and toddlers with special needs and their families
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Changing policies, changing impacts: Employment and earnings of child-care subsidy recipients in the era of welfare reform
A study that examines the employment and earnings of current and former recipients of welfare benefits and child care subsidies and assesses the impact of increased funding for child care and other policy changes.
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Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2001 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive
information about the families and children served through the federal
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to
states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income
families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance,
in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on
their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2002 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive
information about the families and children served through the federal
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to
states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income
families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance,
in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on
their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2003 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2004 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive
information about the families and children served through the federal
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to
states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income
families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance,
in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on
their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2005 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2006 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2007 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2008 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2009 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child care and the development of behavior problems among economically disadvantaged children in middle childhood
A study of the relationship between low-income children's development of behavior problems during middle childhood and child care quality, extent and type of care, as well as an examination of child characteristics, gender, and race-ethnicity, as moderators of the development of behavior problems, based on data from 349 7- through 11-year-old participants in the Three-City Study
Reports & Papers
Child care and low-income children's development: Direct and moderated effects
A study determining the effect of child care quality on low-income children's cognitive and social development, utilizing data from the Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study
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Child care choices of low-income working families
A study of low-income parents' child care decisionmaking and the influence of family characteristics and contextual community factors on their decisions, based on interviews with community experts and stakeholders and in-depth qualitative interviews with parents in 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and Seattle-White Center, Washington
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Child care experiences in low-income communities: Developmental quality and maternal views
A study of child care quality in low-income urban communities, including types of child care used and degree to which settings met children’s and mothers’ needs, based on data from a longitudinal welfare study: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study
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Child care for children with and without disabilities: The provider, observer, and parent perspectives
A study combining survey of providers and parents and program observations to explore the characteristics of providers in inclusive and non-inclusive center-based classrooms and family child care homes, the observed quality of care, and families' perceptions of quality and satisfaction with child care services in four Midwestern states
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