Assessing the New Federalism
A multi-year, multi-pronged project that analyzes state policy choices, including policy development and implementation, and family well-being in the context of the significant devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states
Major Research Projects
Changes in child care arrangements in Minnesota
A study of patterns and changes in the child care arrangements of low income families in Minnesota, based on data from four waves of surveys conducted every five to six months with a cohort of 323 low income families with children under the age of 6
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations
A compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states
Reports & Papers
Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system pilot: Final evaluation report
An evaluation of Parent Aware, Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), that examines programs' experiences and patterns of enrollment, ratings, and improvement, risk status of children served, parent and child ratings, and the relationship of program ratings to observed quality and children's developmental gains, based on program surveys and observations, direct and indirect child assessments, parent interviews, administrative data, and data on program supports
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Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota?s quality rating and improvement system pilot: Year 2 evaluation report
Findings from an implementation and process evaluation of the second year of Parent Aware, Minnesota?s quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), including information on program characteristics and stakeholder perspectives
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Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system pilot: Year 3
Findings from an implementation and process evaluation of the third year of Parent Aware, Minnesota?s quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), including information on program characteristics and stakeholder perspectives
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Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota's quality rating system pilot: Year 1 evaluation report
Findings from an implementation evaluation of the first year of Parent Aware, a pilot quality rating system in Minnesota to help parents identify high-quality early childhood education programs, based on interviews with stakeholders
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Getting Ready: Final evaluation report
An evaluation of Parent Aware Getting Ready Project, a program to assist child care providers in preparing for entry into the Minnesota Parent Aware quality rating and improvement system, that examines child care provider characteristics, services received, quality improvement, and enrollment in Parent Aware, based on administrative data, project staff interviews and surveys, and provider self-assessments and surveys
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Minnesota Child Care Choices: Continuity of care and participation in the Child Care Assistance Program
A study of the characteristics, duration of continuous participation, and continuity of child care arrangements of participants in the child care subsidy program in Minnesota, based on child care subsidy voucher administrative data for 44,582 children from January 2009 through June 2010
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Observations of child care provided by family, friends and neighbors in Minnesota: A report of the Minnesota Child Care Policy Research Partnership
A study of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care settings, with a focus on caregivers’ interactions with children, activities and materials available, and physical environments and routines, based on observations of 41 FFN providers in Minnesota
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A snapshot of quality in Minnesota's child care centers: A report of the Minnesota Child Care Policy Research Partnership
An observational study of quality and need for resources at child care centers in Minnesota
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Tiered reimbursement in Minnesota child care settings
An analysis of the child care system in Minnesota to determine whether, how, and for whom tiered reimbursement improves the availability of and access to higher quality child care
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Welfare reform and children: A synthesis of impacts in five states: The Project on State-Level Child Outcomes
A compilation of findings from the Project on State-Level Child Outcome, a longitudinal evaluation of how welfare programs in Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota impacted participating children and adults
Reports & Papers
Who's caring for our youngest children?: Child care patterns of infants and toddlers
A compendium of child care arrangements and characteristics for children under three years old, based on data from the 1997 National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF)
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