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1998 Child Care Baseline Needs Assessment: U.S. Marine Corps
United States. Department of the Navy, 1998
Fairfax, VA: Caliber Associates

A comprehensive assessment of the child care needs of service members and spouses in military bases and regional locations.

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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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Child care for preschoolers with autism: An exploration of mothers' beliefs, decision-making, and knowledge
Haussler, Annemarie, 1998
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 13(3), 485-499

A discussion of preschool age child care program selection factors for children with autism

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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

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Early child care and self-control, compliance, and problem behavior at twenty-four and thirty-six months
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1998
Child Development, 69(4), 1145-1170

A study into factors of family and child care experiences as predictors of self-control, compliance and problem behavior in children

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Effect of a Smart Start playground improvement grant on child care playground hazards
Kotch, Jonathan, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.

A study of the impact of an Even Start playground improvement grant on child care playground hazards, focusing on playground safety assessments, planning and evaluation, quality enhancements, such as fencing and surfacing, and safety programs

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Extension-supported school-age care programs benefit youth
Locklear, Eddie L., 1998
Journal of Extension, 36(3)

An examination of the impact of out-of-school time care programs on children in grades K-8 attending public schools in North Carolina, data was collected regarding student’s academic performance, attendance, and tardiness

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Head Start programs: Participant characteristics, services, and funding
United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1998
(GAO/HEHS-98-65). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

A study of several factors of the Head Start program, including the number of participants, participants' characteristics, services provided, service delivery methods, federal and non-federal dollars received and spent, and other programs providing similar early childhood services

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Improving quality in early childhood environments through on-site consultation
Palsha, Sharon A., 1998
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 18(4), 243-253

A description of a model designed to help improve quality in early childhood programs through on-site consultations and a discussion of the model's implementation, evaluation strategies, and effects on program quality

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Locked doors: States struggling to meet the child care needs of low-income working families
Adams, Gina, 1998
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund

A study on the demand for affordable quality childcare in the United States

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National evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program: 1994-1997 final report
United States. Department of Education. Planning and Evaluation Service, 1998
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Planning and Evaluation Service.

The second national evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program, examining what has changed and what has remained stable over its first eight years, specifically addressing who and what is served by the program, federal funding methods, participant's developmental and educational gains, best practices, and the success with which the program is reaching its target population

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The North Carolina Child Care Corps: The role of national service in child care
Cassidy, Deborah J., 1998
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 13(4), 589-602

A study of North Carolina’s efforts to improve existing teacher-child ratios through a four-week intensive training program in child development and early childhood education for AmeriCorps volunteers and subsequent assignment as assistant teachers in child care classrooms in counties receiving Smart Start funding

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Predicting kindergarten academic skills: Interactions among child care, maternal education, and family literacy environments
Christian, Kate, 1998
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 13(3), 501-521

A study into early predictors of child academic skills upon entrance to kindergarten, such as ethnicity, gender, Intelligence Quotient, family literacy and maternal education

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A prospective study of why and how working women choose infant child care
Pungello, Elizabeth Puhn, 1998
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An investigation of the relationship between environmental context, child factors, maternal beliefs, and maternal behavior and mothers' decisions regarding child care

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Regulatory enforcement styles
Gormley, Jr., William T., 1998
Political Research Quarterly, 51(2), 363-383

A study of child care inspectors and their differing regulatory enforcement styles against the backdrop of individual-level and state-level variations in regulatory stringency, regulatory flexibility, and the technical support supplied by their agencies, based on interviews with 104 child care inspectors in Colorado, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania

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Relations between family predictors and child outcomes: Are they weaker for children in child care?
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1998
Developmental Psychology, 34(5), 1119-1128

An analysis of the mediating effect of nonparental child care on the influence of family factors on infant and toddler cognitive and behavioral development using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Smart Start and local inter-organizational collaboration
Orthner, Dennis, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center

A study of North Carolina’s Smart Start program, an interagency collaboration amongst organizations that serve children under six years-old and their families, including discussion of the program’s successes, shortcomings, and several improvement recommendations

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