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Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2008 (CCDF) [United States]
United States. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Child Care . Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2008 [Computer file]. ICPSR30423-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-04-07. doi:10.3886/ICPSR30423

This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.

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Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Policies Database, 2009
Giannarelli, Linda, November, 2011
Giannarelli, Linda, Sarah Minton, Christin Durham, and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Policies Database, 2009 . ICPSR32261-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-11-14. doi:10.3886/ICPSR32261.v1

The CCDF Policies Database project is a comprehensive, up-to-date database of inter-related sources of CCDF policy information that support the needs of a variety of audiences through (1) Analytic Data Files and (2) a Book of Tables. These are made available to researchers, administrators, and policymakers with the goal of addressing important questions concerning the effects of alternative child care subsidy policies and practices on the children and families served, specifically parental employment and self-sufficiency, the availability and quality of care, and children's development.

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Child Care Licensing Study, 2008 [United States]
Fischer, Sheri, October, 2011
Fischer, Sheri, and Pauline Koch. Child Care Licensing Study, 2008 [United States] [Computer file]. ICPSR31501-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-10-26. doi:10.3886/ICPSR31501.v1

The purpose of the 2008 Child Care Licensing Study is to report two aspects of child care licensing from 2008 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia: (1) state child care licensing programs and policies and (2) child care center and family child care home licensing regulations. It focuses on the processes and policies in each state related to staffing for the licensing program, monitoring facilities, and enforcement of licensing regulations.

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Current Population Survey, October 2010: School Enrollment and Internet Use Supplement
United States. Bureau of the Census, 06 October, 2011
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Education. National Center for Educational Statistics, and United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Population Survey, October 2010: School Enrollment and Internet Use Supplement. ICPSR31541-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-10-06. doi:10.3886/ICPSR31541.v1

This data collection is comprised of responses from two sets of survey questionnaires, the basic Current Population Survey (CPS) and a survey on the topics of School Enrollment and Internet Use in the United States, which was administered as a supplement to the 2010 October CPS. The Census Bureau and the National Center for Education Statistics jointly sponsored the supplemental questions for October. The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States, for the week prior to the survey. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment. The October 2010 supplemental survey queried respondents on school enrollment for all persons in the household aged three years and over. Supplement data includes information collected on current grade at public or private school, whether currently attending college full- or part-time at a two- or four-year institution, year last attended a regular school, year graduated from high school, grade retention, and whether any business, vocational, technical, trade, or correspondence courses were ever taken. Respondents were also queried on Internet and computer use, particularly if members of the household use the Internet, and how access to the Internet is obtained. Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income.

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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Massachusetts Family Child Care Study, 2005-2007
Collins, Ann, 2011
Collins, Ann. Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Massachusetts Family Child Care Study, 2005-2007 [Computer file]. ICPSR31581-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-25. doi:10.3886/ICPSR31581

The Massachusetts Family Child Care study is a two-year evaluation, conducted by Abt Associates Inc, the Manpower Development Research Corporation (MDRC) and the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), of the impacts of the LearningGames program on providers and children in family child care. LearningGames is designed to train caregivers to stimulate children?s cognitive, language, and social-emotional development through a set of 200 simple games that encourage intensive, one-on-one interactions as a platform that allows the adult to engage the child in meaningful conversation, to listen to the child and respond to the child?s questions and actions, and to scaffold and build on the child?s growing skills at using and understanding language. The goal of LearningGames is to increase the frequency of rich language interactions between caregivers and children due to the importance of oral language development in children?s understanding of words and concepts, in their ability to become competent readers, and in their long-term academic success and of the role played by rich language stimulation in promoting children?s development. This evaluation of LearningGames examines the effectiveness of the program in changing the behavior of the family child care providers and the developmental outcomes for the children who are cared for by providers trained on LearningGames.

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Project Upgrade in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2003-2009
Layzer, Jean I., 2011
Layzer, Jean. Project Upgrade in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2003-2009 [Computer file]. ICPSR31061-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-04-27. doi:10.3886/ICPSR31061

A two-year experiment, Project Upgrade tests the effectiveness of three different language and literacy interventions, Ready, Set, Leap! (RSL!), Breakthrough to Literacy (BTL) and Building Early Language and Literacy (BELL) implemented in child care centers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that served children from low-income families. One hundred and sixty-two centers were randomly assigned to one of three research-based curricula or to a control group that continued with its existing program. The curricula, while grounded in a common set of research findings, differed in intensity, pedagogic strategies, and use of technology. In each center, one classroom that served four-year-old children was selected for the study. Teachers and aides assigned to the three treatment groups received initial and follow-up training as well as ongoing mentoring over a period of approximately 18 months, from Fall 2003 to Spring 2005. The study tested two kinds of outcomes: teacher behavior and interactions with children, and aspects of the classroom environment that support children?s language and literacy development, measured through direct observation; and children?s language and pre-literacy skills, measured by their performance on a standardized assessment.

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Third International Mathematics and Science Study: International Curriculum Analysis, 1992-1995
Schmidt, William, 2011
Schmidt, William. Third International Mathematics and Science Study: International Curriculum Analysis, 1992-1995 [Computer file]. ICPSR30601-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-03-07. doi:10.3886/ICPSR30601

The International Curriculum Analysis (ICA) study provided curricular and textbook information from each country participating in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). TIMSS was a comparative study of education in mathematics and the sciences conducted in over 40 countries on five continents. The goal of TIMSS was to measure student achievement in mathematics and science in participating countries and to assess some of the curricular and classroom factors that are related to student learning in these subjects. The study was intended to provide educators and policy makers with an unparalleled and multidimensional perspective on mathematics and science curricula; their implementation; the nature of student performance in mathematics and science; and the social, economic, and educational context in which these occur.

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