100 children go to school: Connections and disconnections in literacy development in the year prior to school and the first year of school
An investigation into the correlation between the acquisition of emergent literacy skills and the early experiences of children in school settings, based on a sample of 100 children from five locations in Australia
Reports & Papers
1998 Child Care Baseline Needs Assessment: U.S. Marine Corps
A comprehensive assessment of the child care needs of service members and spouses in military bases and regional locations.
Reports & Papers
1998 Child Care Baseline Needs Assessment: U.S. Marine Corps [Executive summary]
Executive Summary
21C: A decade of school-based child care
A descriptive overview of Schools of the 21st Century, comprehensive child care programs for children from birth to age 12 years
Fact Sheets & Briefs
ADHD Rating Scale IV
Instruments
Advances in early education and day care: Vol. 9. Family policy and practice in early child care
Other
AFS consumer survey: From parents receiving child-care assistance
A report of findings from a statewide consumer survey of parents receiving child care assistance through Oregon's Integrated Child Care Program
Reports & Papers
AFS provider survey: From child-care providers serving parents who receive child-care assistance
A report of findings from a statewide survey of child care providers serving parents receiving child care assistance through Oregon's Integrated Child Care Program
Reports & Papers
After-school care for children: A resilience-based approach
An analysis of the afterschool experiences of children and adolescents, using a risk and resilience framework.
Other
Air Force Manual 34-251: Air Force school-age programs
A guide for the implementation of educational programs sponsored by the Air Force
Other
America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 1998
Results from the federal government’s Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics 1998 annual report which consists of twenty-three key indicators that measure critical aspects of children’s lives and well-being, specifically relating to their economic security, health, behavior, social environment, and education
Reports & Papers
American child care today
A discussion of the current state of child care in America from the perspective of two disparate goals: the first fostering mothers’ employment and the second children’s development; these two ends demand compromise between the affordability of child care and the ever increasing costliness of new regulations
Other
Analysis of Federal Even Start expenditures and selected comparisons
A study of the federal expenditures of the Even Start Family Literacy Program as of 1995-1996, addressing the amount spent per year, per project, the amount funds vary by region, state, urban/rural status, and comparing Even Start funds to other similar federal expenditures such as Head Start
Other
Analysis of Federal Even Start expenditures and selected comparisons: Executive summary
A summary of the federal expenditures of the Even Start Family Literacy Program as of 1995-1996, addressing the amount spent per year, per project, the amount funds vary by region, state, urban/rural status, and comparing Even Start funds to other similar federal expenditures such as Head Start
Executive Summary
An analysis of the perceptions and characteristics of childcare personnel regarding inclusion of young children with special needs in community-based programs
An analysis of the perceptions and characteristics of early child care workers with the willingness to care for special needs children in community-based programs in northwestern Ohio
Reports & Papers
Anniversaries in the Finnish kindergarten system: How and why the system was created
An overview of the history of the Finnish child care system, from the creation of the folk kindergarten in 1888 to the adoption of the Day Care Act of 1996, which guaranteed all children under 7 years the right to child care.
Other
Another look at moral panics: The case of satanic day care centers
An examination of moral panic and a discussion of its theory and use and future implications in society as an agent of change
Reports & Papers
Anti-bias education in early childhood: Preparing teachers for diversity
An ethnographic study of how Early Childhood teacher preparation programs across Ontario prepare teachers for working with diversity
Reports & Papers
Arkansas Better Chance program statistics: 1997-98 full year program, 1998 summer enrichment program
A report regarding the Arkansas Better Chance Program (ABC), a funding source for early intervention programs that serve educationally deprived children
Other
The Armed Services' response to the Military Child Care Act
A review of the Armed Services’ implementation of the Military Child Care Act of 1989 (MCCA), focusing on the policy’s goals of improving the quality, affordability, and availability of child care
Other
Assessing quality characteristics of center-based early childhood environments in Germany and Portugal: A cross-national study
Reports & Papers
Assessing Readiness
A discussion of the definition and assessment of children’s school readiness, including recommendations for the components of efficient performance assessments
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Assessing readiness
A report presenting four approaches to defining readiness and the methods used by each perspective to assess children entering formal schooling
Other
Assessment Profile for Early Childhood Programs: Research version (2nd ed.)
Instruments
Attunement between parents and professional caregivers: A comparison of childrearing attitudes in different child-care settings
A study from the Netherlands of the attunement of childrearing attitudes between parents and non-parental caregivers in four settings: day care, after-school care, family-based day care, and babysitter care; the perceptions of their relationship to one another and to the child is presented from an ecological systems perspective
Reports & Papers
