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Child and program characteristics of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program: Year 1 (January-June 2002)
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 2003
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute.

An evaluation of the statewide North Carolina More at Four program, a state-funded initiative to provide high-quality educational experiences to at-risk four-year-olds, that addresses characteristics of local programs and participants, based on program surveys

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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 Development Fund (CCDF) report to Congress: Submitted January 2003
United States. Child Care Bureau, 2003
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

A report providing various state and federal information regarding the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)

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The Child Care HOME Inventories: Assessing the quality of family child care homes
Bradley, Robert H., 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(3), 294-309

An overview of the different versions of the HOME Inventory for use in assessing quality of family child care homes

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Child care meets health care: What other states can teach us about insuring the child care workforce in Illinois
Day Care Action Council of Illinois, July, 2003
Chicago: Day Care Action Council of Illinois.

An exploration of program models for the provision of health insurance to early childhood workers, and recommendations for the development of a framework to provide health care coverage to early childhood workers in Illinois, based on case studies of programs currently implemented in California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and North Carolina

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Child care program and teacher practices: Associations with quality and children's experiences
Wishard, Alison, 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(1), 65-103

An examination of associations between teacher and program practices and quality and observed child behaviors, based on a sample of 260 children from 22 child care programs designed to serve low income children and families of color in Los Angeles and rural North Carolina

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Child care: Recent state policy changes affecting the availability of assistance for low-income families
United States. General Accounting Office, 2003
(GAO-03-588). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

An examination of state policy developments affecting the availability of child care assistance for low-income families

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Coming together for children with disabilities: State collaboration to support quality, inclusive child care
Mezey, Jennifer, 2003
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

A study of state policies which would provide special education and early intervention services to low-income children with disabilities in child care programs

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The comprehensive language approach to early literacy: The interrelationships among vocabulary, phonological sensitivity, and print knowledge among preschool-aged children
Dickinson, David K., 2003
Journal of Educational Psychology, 95(3), 465-481

An evaluation of Head Start preschool children's vocabularies, phonological sensitivities, and print knowledge to examine the relationship between oral language and developing literacy

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Counting the child care workforce: A catalog of state data sources to quantify and describe child caregivers in the fifty states and the District of Columbia
Breunig, Gretchen Stahr, 2003
Seattle: University of Washington, Human Services Policy Center.

A report on data sources suitable for use in calculating the size of the child care workforce for individual states

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Diversity, child care quality, and developmental outcomes
Burchinal, Margaret, 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(4), 401-426

A study investigating the relationship between children's ethnicities and the validity of standardized child care quality measures, using data from the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study and the NICHD Study of Early Child Care

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Do children's attention processes mediate the link between family predictors and school readiness
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Developmental Psychology, 39(3), 581-593

A study of the mediating role of child's attention processes in the relation between family environment and school readiness

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Does amount of time spent in child care predict socioemotional adjustment during the transition to kindergarten?
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Child Development, 74(4), 976-1005

A study of the links between children's socioemotional development and both the cumulative amount of time spent in nonmaternal care from birth to the preschool years, and the quality, type, and other characteristics of child care

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Does quality of child care affect child outcomes at age 4 1/2?
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Developmental Psychology, 39(3), 451-469

A study exploring the causal nature of relations between child care quality and children's development, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Early care and education partnerships: State actions and local lessons
Schilder, Diane, 2003
Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Center for Children and Families.

An inquiry into the nature and durability of partnerships between early childhood education and care providers and community organizations that support parents’ child care needs

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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

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Emergent curriculum and kindergarten readiness
Cassidy, Deborah J., 2003
Childhood Education, 79(4), 194-199

A description of the curriculum activities in a child-centered, developmentally appropriate preschool classroom

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The family partnership agreement process
United States. Head Start Bureau, 2003
(Early Head Start Program Strategies). Washington, DC: Early Head Start National Resource Center.

A study of family partnership agreement process and the importance of community collaboration from seven early Head Start programs

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Friendship formation in inclusive early childhood classrooms: What is the teacher's role?
Buysse, Virginia, 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(4), 485-501

An examination of strategies used by teachers to promote children's friendships in inclusive preschool settings

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Making meaning of school readiness in schools and communities
Wesley, Patricia W., 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(3), 351-375

A journal article exploring parents', prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers', and elementary school principals' perceptions of school readiness

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Measurement of quality in preschool child care classrooms
Cassidy, Deborah J., 2003
Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

A study measuring process quality in 1313 preschool classrooms in child care programs across North Carolina

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Migrant and seasonal Head Start and child care partnerships: A report from the field
Kloosterman, Valentina I., 2003
Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Center for Children and Families.

A study conducted by the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Collaboration Office and the Quality in Linking Together (QUILT) to determine the scope of collaborative efforts between Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and state-funded child care services

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Modeling the impacts of child care quality on children's preschool cognitive development
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Child Development, 74(5), 1454-1475

A journal article using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care to evaluate three methods for modeling the effects of child care quality on preschool children's cognitive development

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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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Non-profit sector and part-time work: An analysis of employer-employee matched data on child care workers
Mocan, H. Naci, 2003
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(1), 38-50

An investigation of the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care, in a sample of 398 child care centers in four states

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