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
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
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 quality and workforce characteristics in four Midwestern states
Raikes, Helen, 2003
Omaha, NE: Gallup Organization.
A study of observed child care quality and its relation to hypothesized and potential indicators of quality, using a representative randomly selected sample of the provider population in four Midwestern states
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Child care quality study
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, 2003
Salina, KS: Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.
A study of the child care work force in Kansas, with an assessment of the impact of the Infant/Toddler Project on child care quality
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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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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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Estimating sustainability and comprehensiveness in the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Final report
United States. Employment and Training Administration. Office of Apprenticeship, Training, Employer and Labor Services, 30 April, 2003
Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012)
An analysis of participating states' post-grant prospects for sustaining and broadening programs funded under the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce
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Evaluating the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Child-care worker apprenticeships in the Western states: Final report
United States. Employment and Training Administration. Office of Apprenticeship, Training, Employer and Labor Services, 30 April, 2003
Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates.
A process evaluation of the first two rounds of the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce, in Western states, based on site visits
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Investing in the child care industry: An economic development strategy for Kansas
Stoney, Louise, 2003
Kansas City, MO: Mid-America Regional Council.
An overview of Kansas’s child care industry and a design to introduce greater public support for the industry’s economic development, including discussion of this industry’s impact on other industries, public investment in child care’s economic impact, the economic development strategy the state envisages for child care investment, and policy recommendations
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Kansas and Missouri Early Head Start programs: Kansas City, Kansas, and Sedalia, Missouri
Paulsell, Diane, 2003
Zero to Three, 23(4), 17-26
An overview of two Early Head Start programs, Project EAGLE, in Kansas City, Kansas and the Children’s Therapy Center, in Sedalia, Missouri, by reviewing the programs’ partnerships with community child care providers, implementation successes and challenges of these partnerships, and lessons learned
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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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Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States
Smith, Linda K., June, 2003
Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012)
A national study of child care resource and referral agencies, including services provided to parents and providers, sources and levels of agency funding, and agency data collecting activities, based on a survey of state child care resource and referral agencies
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Setting the pace: Model inclusive child care centers serving families of children with emotional or behavioral challenges
Brennan, Eileen M., 2003
Portland, OR: Portland State University, Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health.
An examination of child care programs that provide fully-inclusive, exemplary services to families of special needs children, with a description of program components, discussion of the meaning of “inclusion” and of addressing challenges to inclusive practices in early care and education settings, and a review of literature on educational inclusion
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Social functioning in first grade: Associations with earlier home and child care predictors and with current classroom experiences
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Child Development, 74(6), 1639-1662
A longitudinal study examining the extent that social competence in first grade can be predicted by the first grade classroom environment and earlier home and child care experiences
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State administration of the Even Start Family Literacy Program: Structure, process and practices
United States. Department of Education. Office of the Under Secretary, 2003
(Doc No. 2003-14). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Under Secretary.
A description of all major areas of Even Start Family Literacy Program administration at the state level and the factors that facilitate or impede program improvement activities conducted by Even Start state coordinators
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The state of preschool: 2003 state preschool yearbook
Barnett, W. Steven, 2003
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research.
The first of a series of annual reviews of access, quality, and resources in state funded preschool programs for children aged 3 and 4, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, during the 2001-2002 program year
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