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2008-2009 needs assessment report: Survey results, trends, and implications
Nebraska Head Start-State Collaboration Office, May, 2009
Lincoln: Nebraska Head Start-State Collaboration Office. (No longer accessible as of October 11, 2012).

An exploration of the difficulty of collaboration between Head Start and Early Head Start programs and service providers in content areas such as child care, family literacy, homelessness, health care, and welfare services, as well as providers of services for children with disabilities, based on responses from 20 grantees of state Head Start and Early Head Start funds in Nebraska

Reports & Papers


2009 California child care portfolio
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, 2009
San Francisco: California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.

A presentation of statewide and county-by-county statistics of child care supply and demand, costs, and the availability of licensed child care providers in the state of California

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2009 Utah child care market rate study
Utah. Department of Workforce Services. Office of Child Care, June, 2009
Salt Lake City: Utah, Department of Workforce Services, Office of Child Care.

A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the State of Utah in 2009

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21st century teacher education for FirstSchool: A model of collaborative inquiry
New, Rebecca S., 2009
(Issues in PreK-3rd Education No. 8). Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, FirstSchool.

A discussion of the skills and knowledge that early childhood teachers should possess and the role of teacher education programs in facilitating their acquisition

Fact Sheets & Briefs


26 and counting: Examining the Early Launch to Learning Initiative (ELLI), New Jersey's effort towards creating a universal preschool system
Ahmed, Kara H., 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

An exploration the program quality of a stratified random sample of 13 Early Launch to Learning Initiative (ELLI) preschool classrooms, among the 26 districts that received ELLI funding during the 2006-2007 school year and an examination of 8 teacher and 8 administrator perceptions of their capacity to implement a high-quality preschool program

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Accessing and affording child care and low-income mothers' employment over time: An ecological approach
Shjegstad, Brinn, 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Iowa State University, Ames

A study of the influence of child problem behaviors and maternal risk factors on low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, an examination of family income as a mediator of the relationships between child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors and low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, and an examination of the relationships between low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care and family income, child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors, and ability to obtain and maintain employment

Reports & Papers


The acquisition of literacy skills in 4 and 5 year olds
Smith, Teri L., May 2009
Unpublished master’s thesis, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall

An examination of literacy skills acquisition in 16 4 and 5 year old preschoolers in a School Readiness program in a medium sized school district in southwestern Minnesota

Reports & Papers


An actionable federal framework to promote QRIS in the states
Mitchell, Anne W., December, 2009
Alliance for Early Childhood Finance.

A proposal of recommendations for the creation of federal policies to support the development of quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) in the states

Fact Sheets & Briefs


Afterschool child care subsidies and maternal employment among the low-income families
Xiang, Gao, 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation: University of Washington, Seattle

An examination of the relationship between variations in state child care policies and both parental choice of after school child care and their employment, based on a secondary analysis of data from the National Survey of America's Families 2002, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (2000 to 2004), and published aggregate data provided by the Child Care Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Census Bureau

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Afterschool program funding in Utah
Voices for Utah Children, August, 2009
Salt Lake City: Utah, Office of Work and Family Life.

An inquiry into the financial resources available for after school programs in Utah, including information of the number if children supported through the funding and the average cost per child

Reports & Papers


Afterschool program funding in Utah [Executive summary]
Voices for Utah Children, August, 2009
Salt Lake City: Utah, Office of Work and Family Life.

A summary of an inquiry into the financial resources available for after school programs in Utah, including information of the number if children supported through the funding and the average cost per child

Executive Summary


Ages & Stages Questionnaires: A Parent-Completed Child-Monitoring System (3rd ed.)
Squires, Jane, 2009
Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing

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Aligning early childhood visual art education with socio-cultural theory and practice: A personal pedagogical stance in the relationship between theory and visual arts education practice in New Zealand early childhood education
Terreni, Lisa, 2009
Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 16(1), 63-71

An examination of ideas emerging from sociocultural theory as it relates to visual arts education within the Te Whariki curriculum

Reports & Papers


America's early childhood literacy gap
Jumpstart (Organization), September, 2009
Boston: Jumpstart.

An overview of children's early literacy development, the early literacy skills gap between children from low-income and middle-income families, and the role of early interventions in reducing the gap

Fact Sheets & Briefs


American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 2003-2008, Multi-Year Data
United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009
United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 2003-2008, Multi-Year Data [Computer file]. ICPSR24943-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-01-04. doi:10.3886/ICPSR24943.v1

The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) collects information on how people living in the United States spend their time. Estimates show the kinds of activities people engage in and the time they spend involved in these activities by age, sex, educational attainment, labor force status, and other characteristics, as well as by weekday and weekend day. Data about the quality of life in the United States include how much time people spend working, sleeping, caring for children, volunteering, participating in religious activities, commuting, or relaxing, as well as with whom they spend their time. Information is provided about 'secondary childcare' which is defined as care for children under 13 that is done while doing something else as a primary activity.

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American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 2008
United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009
United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 2008 [Computer file]. ICPSR26149-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-11-16. doi:10.3886/ICPSR26149.v1

The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) collects information on how people living in the United States spend their time. Estimates show the kinds of activities people engage in and the time they spend involved in these activities by age, sex, educational attainment, labor force status, and other characteristics, as well as by weekday and weekend day. Data about the quality of life in the United States include how much time people spend working, sleeping, caring for children, volunteering, participating in religious activities, commuting, or relaxing, as well as with whom they spend their time. Information is provided about 'secondary childcare' which is defined as care for children under 13 that is done while doing something else as a primary activity.

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Anchors away! Implementing program-wide positive behavior supports at the Visiting Nurses Association Child Care and Family Resource Center
Muscott, Howard S., April 2009
NHSA Dialog, 12(2), 104-121

An account of the implementation of the use of positive behavior support (PBS) by early childhood workers in a child care and preschool setting that provides integrated health and education services to children of low- to moderate-income families in New Hampshire, including a discussion of challenges of program development and teacher training

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Approaches to individualizing supports for high-risk preschoolers [Special issue]
Smith, Sheila, July 2009
NHSA Dialog, 12(3)

A special issue of the journal NHSA Dialog, focusing on approaches to meet the learning needs of young children at risk of academic failure

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As easy as ABC?: Learning to organize private child care workers
Brown, Tony, June 2009
Labor Studies Journal, 34(2), 235-251

A study of the efforts of one trade union to organize previously unorganized child care workers from semi-structured interviews with 25 staff from five state union branches as well as union reports and planning documents

Reports & Papers


Assembly Bill 627: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: FY 2007-08 final evaluation report
Leitner, David, January, 2009
Carson City: Nevada, Office of Special Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, and School Improvement Programs.

An evaluation of the Nevada publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examined the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year and compared first and third grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants

Reports & Papers


Assembly Bill 627: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: FY 2007-08 final evaluation report [Executive summary]
Leitner, David, January, 2009
Carson City: Nevada, Office of Special Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, and School Improvement Programs.

A summary of an evaluation of the Nevada publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examined the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year and compared first and third grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants

Executive Summary


Assessing the impact of Between the Lions and literacy manipulatives on the literacy skills of young children
Taylor-Piotrowski, Jessica L., October, 2009
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, Children's Media Lab.

An exploration of the impact of Between the Lions and generic literacy manipulatives on children's early literacy skills, based on assessments of a sample of 236 children in prekindergarten through second grade

Reports & Papers


Assessing the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment among early childhood educators
Shepherd-Osborne, Tracie, August 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Prescott Valley, AZ

An assessment of the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment among early childhood educators, as well as an examination of the relationship between educators' job satisfaction and organizational commitment and their supervisors' leadership type (i.e. traits and processes) from a convenience sample of 296 educators drawn from training conferences in North Carolina

Reports & Papers


Assessing the school readiness needs of a state
Schultz, Tom, 2009
In R.C. Pianta & C. Howes (Eds.), The promise of pre-k, (pp. 31-50). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes

A description and analysis of 6 states' efforts to assess young children and the programs and settings in which they are prepared for schooling

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Assessment of mathematical development in early childhood: Some views of preschool practitioners in regional and rural Australia
Mousley, Judith, 2009-2010
Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 16(2), 35-37

A qualitative survey of practitioners' rationales for and approaches to the assessment of children's mathematical development, methods for the documentation of children's participation in mathematical activities, and of the use of assessment records, based on data from early childhood center staff in Australia

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