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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6

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Approaches to assessing the language and literacy skills of young dual language learners: A review of the research
Aikens, Nikki, 2012
(Research Brief No. 10). Chapel Hill, NC: Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners.

A summary of a review of the procedures used to assess the language and literacy development of young dual language learners, based on 80 studies from Canada and the United States

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Assessment tools for language and literacy development of young dual language learners (DLLs)
Atkins-Burnett, Sally, 2012
(Research Brief No. 9). Chapel Hill, NC: Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners.

A summary of a review of the reliability and validity of measures used to assess the language and literacy development of young dual language learners, based on 7 large-scale government studies and 30 research studies from Canada and the United States

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The CCDF policies database book of tables: Key cross-state variations in CCDF policies as of October 1, 2011
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2012
(OPRE Report 2012-51). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A comparison of aspects of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)-related policies among the 50 states, District of Columbia, and territories, including: eligibility requirements for families and children; application, redetermination, terms of authorization, and waiting lists; family payments; and policies for providers, including reimbursement rates

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Child-care subsidies: Do they impact the quality of care children experience?
Johnson, Anna D., July, 2012
Child Development, 83(4), 1444-1461

A comparison of subsidy recipient low-income children's care quality relative to socioeconomically comparable, subsidy-eligible non-recipients quality of child care, based data from 750 4-year-olds from Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort, Preschool data

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Child outcomes and classroom quality in FACES 2009
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, September, 2012
(OPRE Report 2012-37a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2009 and spring 2010, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula, activities, and quality, based on fall 2009 and spring 2010 data for a sample of 370 classrooms and 3,022 children in the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES)

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Child outcomes and classroom quality in FACES 2009 [Executive summary]
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, September, 2012
(OPRE Report 2012-37a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of a profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2009 and spring 2010, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula, activities, and quality, based on fall 2009 and spring 2010 data for a sample of 370 classrooms and 3,022 children in the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES)

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Common challenges in the study of continuity of child care subsidy participation: CCPRC subsidy workgroup methodology research brief series
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2012
(Methodological Brief OPRE 2012-55). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of issues in designing studies of the dynamics of child care subsidy receipt

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Can we trust parental reports of child care subsidy receipt?
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2012
(Methodological Brief OPRE 2012-53). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A study of the incidence and implications of measurement error in parental reports of child care subsidy receipt in survey data, based on parent and provider reports of subsidy receipt from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national longitudinal cohort study

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Data tables for Child outcomes and classroom quality in FACES 2009 report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, September, 2012
(OPRE Report 2012-37b). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Data tables from a profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2009 and spring 2010, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula, activities, and quality, based on fall 2009 and spring 2010 data for a sample of 370 classrooms and 3,022 children in the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES)

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Defining school readiness in Maryland: A multi-dimensional perspective
Forry, Nicole D., November, 2012
(Publication No. 2012-44). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A comparison of child care center directors', family child care providers', and kindergarten teachers' definitions of school readiness and views on preparing children for school, based on focus groups with 33 center directors, 30 family child care providers, and 22 kindergarten teachers held in Prince George's County and Baltimore City, Maryland

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Family-provider relationship quality: Review of conceptual and empirical literature of family-provider relationships
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, November, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-46). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A review of literature that conceptualizes relationships between families and early care and education providers and that identifies factors associated with high-quality family-provider relationships

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Family-provider relationship quality: Review of existing measures of family-provider relationships
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, November, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-47). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A review of instruments that measure the quality of family-provider relationships, and a discussion of considerations for the future development of family-provider relationship quality measures

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Getting into the black box: How do low-income parents make choices about early care and education in Maryland?
Forry, Nicole D., November, 2012
(Publication No. 2012-42). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A study of low income parents' perceptions of high-quality child care, their priorities in choosing child care arrangements, and their child care decision-making process, based on four focus groups with 41 parents held in Prince George's County and Baltimore City, Maryland

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Identifying profiles of quality in home-based child care
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2012
(Issue Brief OPRE 2012-20). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A study to identify profiles of child care quality among a sample of family child care providers and to examine provider characteristics associated with each profile, based on an analysis of observational and survey data collected from 341 family child care providers in the Quality Interventions for Early Care and Education (QUINCE) Partnerships for Inclusion (PFI) study

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Identifying profiles of quality in home-based child care [Executive summary]
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2012
(Issue Brief OPRE 2012-20). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of a study to identify profiles of child care quality among a sample of family child care providers and to examine provider characteristics associated with each profile, based on an analysis of observational and survey data collected from 341 family child care providers in the Quality Interventions for Early Care and Education (QUINCE) Partnerships for Inclusion (PFI) study

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Maryland early childhood risk and reach assessment
Daily, Sarah, 30 September, 2012
(Publication No. 2012-41). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

An examination of the geographic distribution in Maryland of family risk indicators and early childhood program capacity

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National profiles of classroom quality and family involvement: A multilevel examination of proximal influences on Head Start children's school readiness
Bulotsky-Shearer, Rebecca, Q4 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(4), 627-639

A study of the relationship between Head Start children's school readiness and both classroom quality and family involvement, based on data from 1,870 children, their teachers, and families from the Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) 1997

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A portrait of family involvement during Head Start: Nature, extent, and predictors
Hindman, Annemarie H., Q4 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(4), 654-667

A profile of the nature, frequency, and both family and center predictors of low income Head Start families' involvement in children's learning and schooling in the home, community, and school contexts, based on data from 2,154 children and families and 165 directors of Head Start centers participating in the Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) 2003

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Providing high quality care in low-income areas in Maryland: Definitions, resources, and challenges from parents and child care providers' perspectives
Forry, Nicole D., November, 2012
(Publication No. 2012-45). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A study of parents' and child care providers' definitions of high-quality child care, and of providers' and parents' respective challenges in providing and obtaining high-quality care, based on 12 focus groups with 33 center directors, 30 family child care providers, and 41 parents held in Prince George's County and Baltimore City, Maryland

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The Strengthening Families initiative and child care quality improvement: How Strengthening Families influenced change in child care programs in one state
Douglass, Anne, May, 2012
Early Education and Development, 23(3), 373-392

A qualitative study of the influence of the Strengthening Families through Early Care and Education initiative in Illinois (SFI) on change in family partnership practices in child care programs, based on data from 4 child care programs serving birth- through 5-year-olds who had participated in SFI for at least 2 years

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Studying child care subsidies with secondary data sources: CCPRC subsidy workgroup methodology research brief series
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2012
(Methodological Brief OPRE 2012-54). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of the features of four large-scale data sets relevant to the study of child care subsidies

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Subsidy continuity in Maryland
Forry, Nicole D., November, 2012
(Publication No. 2012-43). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A study of the duration of children's continuous participation in the child care subsidy program in Maryland, as well as factors associated with the duration, based on child care subsidy voucher administrative data from June 2007 through September 2010

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A summary of research on how CCDF policies affect providers
Rohacek, Monica, March, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-25, Child Care and Development Fund--Research Synthesis Brief Series Brief No. 02). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

An examination of research on differences in payment amounts to and costs incurred by child care providers from Child Care and Development Fund child care subsidy vouchers and private-pay families

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Third Grade Follow-Up to the Head Start Impact Study: Final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2012
(OPRE Report 2012-45). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A longitudinal study through the end of third grade of the effects of Head Start participation on parenting practices and on children's cognitive development, socioemotional development, and health, based on data collected for 4,667 randomly-assigned Head Start applicants from a nationally representative sample of 84 Head Start grantees

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