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The 2005 child care licensing study: Final report
National Association for Regulatory Administration, December 2006
Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration.

A compilation of survey data on state child care licensing programs and policies, including staffing, monitoring, and enforcement, and child care center licensing regulations, for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2005

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The 2007 Child Care Licensing Study: Final report
National Child Care Information Center (U.S.), February, 2009
Lexington, KY: National Association for Regulatory Administration.

A compilation of survey data on state licensing programs and policies for child care centers and small and large family child care homes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2007

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2009-2010 Great Start Readiness Program: Program quality assessment: Statewide data report
High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, September, 2010
Lansing: Michigan, Department of Education.

Findings from an assessment of the quality of preschool classrooms in the Great Start Readiness Program, Michigan's publicly-funded preschool program for at-risk 4-year-olds, based on data from 1,436 classrooms

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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6

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21st Century Community Learning Centers state evaluation: Mid-year implementation report: July 2003-February 2004
Bates, Laura V., 10 February, 2004
East Lansing: Michigan State University, University Outreach and Engagement.

An implementation evaluation of Michigan's 21st Community Learning Centers, a federally-funded out-of-school time program, based on program director surveys

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21st Century Community Learning Centers summer expansion grant: Final evaluation report
Van Egeren, Laurie A., October, 2011
East Lansing: Michigan State University, University Outreach and Engagement.

Findings from an evaluation of a grant program to extend 21st Century Community Learning Centers services in Michigan during the summer months of 2011 that examine program implementation, participation, academic performance, and youth development and socioemotional functioning, based on administrative data and student and administrator surveys

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Achieving a state of healthy weight: A national assessment of obesity prevention terminology in child care regulations 2010
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care (U.S.), January, 2011
Aurora, CO: National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care.

A study of the extent to which state child care regulations meet standards related to obesity prevention in the areas of infant feeding, nutrition, and physical activity

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All together now: State experiences in using community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten
Schumacher, Rachel, 2005
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

A discussion of the findings from a survey of 29 states conducted by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), which examined the policies, opportunities, and challenges associated with including community based child care providers as part of the states' prekindergarten programs

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America After 3PM
Afterschool Alliance, October 2009
Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

A 2009 update of and comparison to a 2004 study of the after school child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households

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Analysis of state K-3 reading standards and assessments: Final report
United States. Department of Education. Policy and Program Studies Service, December 2005
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Policy and Program Studies Service.

An examination of the extent to which state kindergarten through third grade (K-3) reading standards and assessments address five components essential to effective reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension), based on an analysis of a stratified, random sample of states' reading standards and on the content of reading assessments in states with statewide assessments

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Analyzing social experiments as implemented: A reexamination of the evidence from the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J., July, 2010
(Working Paper No. 16238). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

A reconceptualized cost-benefit and return-on-investment analysis of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, based on data from the original program participants and matched data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979)

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Analyzing social experiments as implemented: A reexamination of the evidence from the High Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J., July, 2010
Quantitative Economics, 1(1), 1-46

A reanalysis of data from the Perry Preschool Project, a longitudinal experimental study of the impact of a preschool education and home visitation intervention on over 715 measured outcome variables of disadvantaged children in preschool, based on data from participants from age 3 through age 40

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Another look at moral panics: The case of satanic day care centers
deYoung, Mary, 1998
Deviant Behavior, 19(3), 257-278

An examination of moral panic and a discussion of its theory and use and future implications in society as an agent of change

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