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13 indicators of quality child care: Research update
Fiene, Richard, 2002
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

An annotated bibliography of research conducted since 1992 on thirteen key child care quality indicators used in developing child care licensing regulations.

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Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children
Fuligni, Allison Sidle, Q2 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(2), 198-209

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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The association between preschool children's social functioning and their emergent academic skills
Arnold, David H., Q3 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(3), 376-386

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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Child care and the development of behavior problems among economically disadvantaged children in middle childhood
Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth, September/October 2010
Child Development, 81(5), 1460-1474

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

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Child care and low-income children's development: Direct and moderated effects
Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth, 2004
Child Development, 75(1), 296-312

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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The child care challenge: What parents need and what is available in three metropolitan areas
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 1989
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

Findings from an assessment of local child care supply and demand in three urban areas served by the Teenage Parent Demonstration program: Camden and Newark, New Jersey, and South Chicago, Illinois, based on surveys of 989 parents, 160 regulated family day care providers, 294 unregulated family day care providers, and 167 child care center providers

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The child care challenge: What parents need and what is available in three metropolitan areas [Executive summary]
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 1989
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

A summary of findings from an assessment of local child care supply and demand in three urban areas served by the Teenage Parent Demonstration program: Camden and Newark, New Jersey, and South Chicago, Illinois, based on surveys of 989 parents, 160 regulated family day care providers, 294 unregulated family day care providers, and 167 child care center providers

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Child care essential ingredient for sustained, full-time work for welfare recipients
Speiglman, Richard, 2004
Oakland, CA: Public Health Institute.

A brief emphasizing the need for child care among low income families departing welfare-to-work programs, based upon findings from the Alameda County CalWORKs Needs Assessment and Outcomes Study.

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Child care experiences in low-income communities: Developmental quality and maternal views
Li-Grining, Christine P., 2006
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(2), 125-141

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 in the era of welfare reform: Quality, choices, and preferences
Coley, Rebekah L., 2001
(Policy Brief 01-04). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University.

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 when parents are employed
Morgan, James N., 1981
In M. S. Hill, D. H. Hill, & J. N. Morgan (Eds.), Five thousand American families: Patterns of economic progress: Vol. IX. Analyses of the first twelve years of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (pp. 441-456). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research.

A study of the factors that influence employed parents' selection of specific types of child care

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Children born in 2001: First results from the base year of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
National Center for Education Statistics, November 2004
(E.D. TAB, NCES 2005-036). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

Selected findings from the first year of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), including descriptive information about child and family characteristics, children’s skills and first experiences in child care, and children's fathers

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Community programs to promote youth development
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Community-Level Programs for Youth, 2002
Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

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Community programs to promote youth development [Executive summary]
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Community-Level Programs for Youth, 2002
Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

An examination of community-based programs for youth examining what is known about their design, implementation, and evaluation in an effort to effect policy and practice that reflects a broader, more holistic view of encouraging youth development beyond simply eliminating problems

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Custodial grandmothers' physical, mental, and economic well-being: Comparisons of primary caregivers from low-income neighborhoods
Bachman, Heather J., 2005
Family Relations, 54(4), 475-487

A study of the implications of custodial grandparent care by comparing the material hardship, mental health, and physical well-being of custodial grandmothers and biological mothers using data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study

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The demand for and supply of child care in the 1990s
Hofferth, Sandra L., 1992
In A. Booth (Ed.), Child care in the 1990s: Trends and consequences (pp. 3-25). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

An analysis of federal child care policy in the United States

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Development of a comprehensive community assessment of school readiness
Murphey, David A., 2002
Early Childhood Research & Practice, 4(2)

A journal article on the development and implementation of a Vermont statewide assessment of children's readiness for kindergarten and schools' readiness for kindergartners and their families

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Early academic skills and childhood experiences across the urban-rural continuum
Miller, Portia, Q2 2013
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28(2), 234-248

An examination of differences in children's academic skills at kindergarten entry across large urban, small urban, suburban, and rural areas, based on data from approximately 6,050 children and their families from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort

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Early care and education quality and child outcomes
Burchinal, Margaret, May, 2009
(Publication No. 2009-15, OPRE Research-to-Policy Brief No. 1). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

An overview of research on the relationship of child care and early education quality to children's cognitive, social, and academic development

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Early childhood education and school readiness: Conceptual models, constructs, and measures: Workshop summary
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.). Child Development and Behavior Branch, 2002
Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Child Development and Behavior Branch.

A summary of a workshop on the use and development of instruments for measuring child development and learning from birth to age five and on the design of the Head Start national reporting system

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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Birth Cohort, 2001-2002, 2-year Data [UNITED STATES]
National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study [United States]: Birth Cohort, 2001-2002, 2-year Data [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) [producer and distributor].

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study is designed to provide decision makers, researchers, child care providers, teachers, and parents with detailed information about children's early life experiences. The birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B) looks at children's health, development, care, and education during the formative years from birth through first grade.

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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Birth Cohort, 2001-2002, 9-Month Data [UNITED STATES]
National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study [United States]: Birth Cohort, 2001-2002, 9-Month Data [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) [producer and distributor].

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study is designed to provide decision makers, researchers, child care providers, teachers, and parents with detailed information about children's early life experiences. The birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B) looks at children's health, development, care, and education during the formative years from birth through first grade.

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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Birth Cohort, 2001-2002, Preschool Data [UNITED STATES]
National Center for Education Statistics,
U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study [United States]: Birth Cohort, 2001-2002, Preschool Data [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) [producer and distributor].

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study is designed to provide decision makers, researchers, child care providers, teachers, and parents with detailed information about children's early life experiences. The birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B) looks at children's health, development, care, and education during the formative years from birth through first grade.

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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Methodology report for the nine-month data collection (2001-02): Vol. 1. Psychometric characteristics
Andreassen, Carol, 2005
(NCES 2005-100). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

An overview of assessment methods and purposes for data collection on the developmental status of children in the study

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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Psychometric report for the 2-year data collection: Methodology report
Andreassen, Carol, August 2007
(NCES 2007-084). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A description of the characteristics and field performance of instruments used in the two-year data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a nationally representative longitudinal study following children born in 2001 in the United States from birth until kindergarten

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