An approach to enhance kindergarten transition
A descriptive summary of an approach to enhancing kindergarten transition through a series of activities connecting principals, teachers, parents, children and peers
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Assessing program quality
A discussion of the purposes, strengths and opportunities of the Early Intervention Services Assessment Scale (EISAS) for the comprehensive assessment of the quality of early intervention programs and services
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Characteristics of an exit cohort of AFDC recipients that affect use of child care subsidies
A report on characteristics of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) leavers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that predict child care subsidy use
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Child care in California: A short report on subsidies, affordability and supply
A summary of research findings on the gap between the number of children eligible for child care subsidies in California, under both the state and federal income eligibility guidelines, and the number of children actually served. This brief also provides an overview of California's child care administration policies.
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Child care in Connecticut: A short report on subsidies, affordability and supply
A summary of research findings on the gap between the number of children eligible for child care subsidies in Connecticut, under both the state and federal income eligibility guidelines, and the number of children actually served. This brief also provides an overview of Connecticut's child care administration policies.
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Child care in Delaware: A short report on subsidies, affordability and supply
A summary of research findings on the gap between the number of children eligible for child care subsidies in Delaware, under both the state and federal income eligibility guidelines, and the number of children actually served. This brief also provides an overview of Delaware's child care administration policies.
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Child care in Florida: A short report on subsidies, affordability and supply
A summary of research findings on the gap between the number of children eligible for child care subsidies in Florida, under both the state and federal income eligibility guidelines, and the number of children actually served. This brief also provides an overview of Florida's child care administration policies.
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Child care in Louisiana : A short report on subsidies, affordability and supply
A summary of research on the gap between subsidy eligibility and receipt for child care subsidies in Louisiana.
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Child care in Michigan: A short report on subsidies, affordability and supply
A summary of research findings on the gap between the number of children eligible for child care subsidies in Michigan, under both the state and federal income eligibility guidelines, and the number of children actually served. This brief also provides an overview of Michigan's child care administration policies.
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Child care in Pennsylvania: A short report on subsidies, affordability and supply
A summary of research findings on the gap between the number of children eligible for child care subsidies in Pennsylvania, under both the state and federal income eligibility guidelines, and the number of children actually served. This brief also provides an overview of Pennsylvania's child care administration policies.
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Child care in Texas: A short report on subsidies, affordability and supply
A summary of research findings on the gap between the number of children eligible for child care subsidies in Texas, under both the state and federal income eligibility guidelines, and the number of children actually served. This brief also provides an overview of Texas's child care administration policies.
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Child care in Utah: A short report on subsidies, affordability and supply
A summary of research findings on the gap between the number of children eligible for child care subsidies in Utah, under both the state and federal income eligibility guidelines, and the number of children actually served. This brief also provides an overview of Utah's child care administration policies.
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Child care social climate
Key findings from a study on teacher-child relationships and the social environment of child care on children's socioemotional development
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CQO children go to school
Key findings of the longitudinal follow-up study to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study (CQO) that investigates the persistence of children's benefits from participation in early childhood care through elementary school
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Decision matrix
A framework for child care policy decision-makers to analyze the efficacy of the desirability and feasibility factors of various public policy options
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Depressed moms & child development
Key findings from a longitudinal study on the correlation between maternal depression and children's development and school readiness, based on data on 1,215 mothers and their children assessed regularly from 1 to 36 months
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Early intervention: What's next?
A discussion of goals for the improvement and development of early childhood intervention services
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Family outcomes
A discussion of the need for a tool to assess the outcomes and efficacy of the family oriented early intervention programs and services, including a suggested list of 8 questions to be considered in assessing a family’s experiences in the intervention
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The implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families First Act of 1998
An overview of the effects of the California Children and Families First Act, with recommendations for use of funds allocated by the Act
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Play, child care and the road to adulthood
A brief report on why current school aged child care for children from age eight through fourteen is not enough to encourage a rounded adulthood in the United Kingdom
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Preprimary education enrollment
A summary of information on the pre-primary education enrollment rate in the United States between 1991 and 1996
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Proposed changes in the official measure of poverty
A brief on the development of the current poverty measure with recommendations for changes to it
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Public schools & prek services
An overview of early childhood programs available to young children, and implications for the national improvement of service delivery
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A survey: Quality practices
Highlights from a study on the identification of teachers' preferred classroom practices and their perceived barriers to the implementation of such practices, based on a national survey of 1,207 preschool teachers in varied early childhood settings
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Teacher-family contact
Key findings from a cross-sectional and longitudinal study of the rates and characteristics of contact between families and teachers in Head Start, other preschools, and kindergarten, and an examination of the changes in teacher-family contact as children transition from preschool to kindergarten
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