Barriers to subsidies: Why low-income families do not use child care subsidies
Shlay, Anne B., 2003
Philadelphia: Temple University, Center for Public Policy.
An investigation into the factors responsible for non-use of child care subsidies among subsidy-eligible families, based on a survey of 196 subsidy-eligible low income African American parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Reports & Papers
Child care and common communicable illnesses in children aged 37 to 54 months
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 157(2), 196-200
A study of the relationship between experience in child care and common communicable illnesses in children aged 37 to 54 months
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Child care problems and work outcomes for low-skilled mothers
Press, Julie E., 2003
Philadelphia: Temple University, Center for Public Policy. http://unix.temple.edu/%7ejpress/Ford%20Final%20Report.pdf (no longer accessible since December 5, 2005)
A study of the child care problems and choices of urban, poor, and working mothers, and a study of the relationship between work-related outcomes and child care problems, broken down by a variety of household demographic measures and based on data collected from 1,072 mothers from a sample of low income Philadelphia neighborhoods
Reports & Papers
Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Infant Behavior & Development, 26(3), 345-370
A study of the relationship between early child care experiences in a child's first 3 years of life and mother-child interaction through the child's transition to school
Reports & Papers
The impact of a computer-based training system on strengthening phonemic awareness and increasing reading ability level
Slattery, Cheryl A., 2003
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Widener University, Chester, PA
A study of the impact of the Fast ForWord computer training system, implemented as an after school program, on the phonemic awareness and reading ability of students reading below grade level in grades three, four, and five
Reports & Papers
Moderators of academic achievement and social-emotional functioning in migrant Latino children receiving after-school care
Riggs, Nathaniel R., 2003
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
A study of how factors such as age, acculturation, family functioning, and parental involvement, combined with participation in an after school program affect the academic outcomes of Latino elementary school children, based on parent and child questionnaires and child assessments
Reports & Papers
The NICHD Study of Early Child Care: Contexts of development and developmental outcomes over the first seven years of life
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
In J. Brooks-Gunn, A.S. Fuligni, & L.J. Berlin (Eds.), Early child development in the 21st century (pp. 181-201). New York: Teachers College Press
A description of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care’s examination of the relationship between child care and children's development over the first seven years of life
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Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States
Smith, Linda K., June, 2003
Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012)
A national study of child care resource and referral agencies, including services provided to parents and providers, sources and levels of agency funding, and agency data collecting activities, based on a survey of state child care resource and referral agencies
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