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Beyond classroom-based measures for preschoolers: Addressing the gaps in measures for home-based care and care for infants and toddlers
Sandstrom, Heather, 2011
In M. Zaslow, I. Martinez-Beck, K. Tout, & T. Halle (Eds.), Quality measurement in early childhood settings (pp. 317-343). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes

A discussion of appropriateness of indicators in the assessment of quality in family child care settings, based on recommendations from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)

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The characteristics and quality of pre-school education in Spain
Sandstrom, Heather, June, 2012
International Journal of Early Years Education, 20(2), 130-158

A study of early care and education center quality, relationships between structural characteristics and process quality, and both teachers' views of quality and the challenges they face as educators, based on data from 25 classrooms serving 4-year-old children, from a random sample of 15 schools in Seville, Spain

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Child care choices of low-income working families
Chaudry, Ajay, January, 2011
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

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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Early Head Start and African American families: Impacts and mechanisms of child outcomes
Harden, Brenda Jones, Q4 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(4), 572-581

A study of the effects of participation in Early Head Start (EHS) for both African American children at age 3 and their parents across developmental and parenting domains, and an examination of the mediating roles of parental cognitive stimulation, warmth, supportiveness, parental distress, and harshness on those effects, based on data from 778 African American families participating in the Early Head Start evaluation

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How contextual constraints affect low-income working parents' child care choices
Sandstrom, Heather, February, 2012
(Brief 22). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

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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How employment constraints affect low-income working parents' child care decisions
Chaudry, Ajay, February, 2012
(Brief 23). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

Findings from a study of low income parents' child care decisionmaking that examines parents' employment contexts and the role of employment in their child care choices, based on in-depth qualitative interviews with parents in 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and Seattle-White Center, Washington

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'You have to choose your childcare to fit your work': Childcare decision-making among low-income working families
Sandstrom, Heather, September, 2012
Journal of Children & Poverty, 18(2), 89-119

Findings from a three-year study of child care preferences among low income working families and the factors that can influence their child care decisions, including parental employment contexts, early care and education supply, and related program policies, based on data from 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and White Center/Seattle, Washington

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