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			Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families: Volume I. Technical report United States. Administration for Children and Families, 2001 Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. An evaluation of the effectiveness of Early Head Start programs in improving children's outcomes, based on a national assessment of 3,000 children at 17 sites	Reports & Papers
			Casey-NNIP early childhood and school readiness project: Summary of stage one scan University of Memphis. Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action, 2008 Washington, DC: Urban Institute, National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership. An examination of the components of a comprehensive system of early childhood education and care programs and support services in Memphis, Tennessee, including information on organization initiatives to improve the coordination and delivery of services	Reports & Papers
			A center piece of the preK puzzle: Providing state prekindergarten in child care centers Schulman, Karen, November 2007 Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center. An examination of the benefits and challenges for child care centers providing state-funded prekindergarten program services, with policies and strategies for increasing child care center provision of prekindergarten services, based on interviews with child care center directors	Reports & Papers
			Championing success: Business organizations for early childhood investments ReadyNation, 2013 Washington, DC: ReadyNation. A study of the early childhood policy and advocacy efforts of formal business membership organizations, based on survey responses from 104 local chambers of commerce and from 121 state business roundtables, state chambers of commerce, and city chambers of commerce	Reports & Papers
			The child care arrangements of preschool-age children in immigrant families in the United States Brandon, Peter D., 2004 International Migration, 42(2), 65-87 A comparison of the use of child care arrangements among immigrant families to non-immigrant families	Reports & Papers
			Child care choices, consumer education, and low-income families Mitchell, Anne W., 1992 New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty A policy paper exploring issues surrounding child care choices, consumer advocacy and low-income families	Reports & Papers
			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)	Reports & Papers
			Child care health consultation initiatives: A status report United States. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, December, 2006 Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Healthy Child Care Consultant Network Support Center. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012) A study profiling child care health consultant initiatives in the states and territories and examining factors associated with successfully implementing and sustaining these initiatives	Reports & Papers
			Child-care history and kindergarten adjustment Bates, John E., 1994 Developmental Psychology, 30(5), 690-700 A study of the relationship between differing amounts of child care experience and the social and behavioral adjustment of kindergarteners	Reports & Papers
			Child care in the American South: Poverty, costs, and quality Collins, Vikki K., Spring 2012 Early Childhood Research & Practice, 14(1) A study of the relationship between the use of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) in southern states and family poverty, child care costs, and a variety of related socioeconomic variables, based on data from the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010, for 14 southern states	Reports & Papers
			Child care in rural areas: Top challenges Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states	Reports & Papers
			Child care in the southern states: Expanding access to affordable care for low-income families and fostering economic development Stoney, Louise, 2000 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. An overview of the financial status of child care in southern United States, which argues that, by allowing both parents to work, child care has contributed to the economic expansion of the nation	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. 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
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Defining and measuring quality: An in-depth study of five child care quality rating and improvement systems United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011 (OPRE Report 2011-29). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. An examination of aspects of child care quality rating and improvement systems related to definitions and measures of quality, including variation in definitions and measures, processes to measure each component and determine the overall level of quality, and availability of data on quality ratings, based on in-depth case studies in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Measuring quality across three child care quality rating and improvement systems: Findings from secondary analyses United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011 (OPRE Report 2011-30). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A study of the prevalence of quality components among participating child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) providers and their relationship to observed quality, based on analyses of QRIS administrative data, professional development registries, and observation data in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee	Reports & Papers
			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	Reports & Papers
			Child care services in the JOBS program Hagen, Jan, 2004 Children and Youth Services Review, 26(8), 697-710 A study on the implementation of child care services under the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program from 1990 to 1992 in 10 states.	Reports & Papers
			Child care: State efforts to enforce safety and health requirements United States. Government Accountability Office, 2004 (GAO-04-786). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office. A report by the Government Accountability Office to House Representative Sander M Levin regarding the regulation of child care health and safety requirements in states supported by the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)	Reports & Papers
			Child care: States have undertaken a variety of quality improvement initiatives, but more evaluations of effectiveness are needed United States. General Accounting Office, 2002 (GA0-02-897). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office. An examination of the types and effectiveness of quality improvement initiatives implemented by states with 4 percent set-aside and other funds, based on surveys from Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies in 42 states, supplemented by case studies from 5 states selected to represent variations in geographic location, population density, child care quality improvement initiatives, state income distribution, licensing caseloads, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) fund usage, and state licensing requirements	Reports & Papers
			Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992 Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund A study of the Head Start program�s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group	Reports & Papers
			Coaching and quality assistance in quality rating improvement systems: Approaches used by TA providers to improve quality in early care and education programs and home-based settings Smith, Sheila, January, 2012 New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty. A study of the features of on-site technical assistance and coaching provided by state child care quality rating and improvement system technical assistance providers, based on interviews with 34 technical assistance providers in 17 states	Reports & Papers
			Collaboration among child care, Head Start, and pre-kindergarten: A telephone survey of selected southern states Campbell, Dottie, 2002 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. A survey of select southern states collaborative projects between child care, head start and prekindergarten	Reports & Papers
			Collective management of early childhood programs: Approaches that aim to maximize efficiency, help improve quality and stabilize the industry Stoney, Louise, 2004 Raleigh, NC: Smart Start National Technical Assistance Center. A report presenting a catalog of collective management approaches currently used by child care services across the United States	Reports & Papers
			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	Reports & Papers
			A comparative enforcement study: Survey report of negative enforcement options and practices National Association for Regulatory Administration, 1998 Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration. A survey of the negative enforcement practices used by regulatory agencies on adult assisted-living, child care, and child residential care licensing programs in the United States and Canada	Reports & Papers

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