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Aboriginal Head Start |
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After-school programs that promote child and adolescent development: Summary of a workshop |
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America's after-school choice: The prime time for juvenile crime or youth enrichment and achievement An overview of After School programs in the United States outlining the need for programs, current state of programs and calls for further research, presented by Fight Crime, an advocacy organization |
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America's child care crisis: A crime prevention tragedy A review and analysis of research findings on the relationship between child care and reduced crime rates, with an emphasis on program quality and the need for public investment |
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Another look at the elephant: Child care in the nineties An overview of the links between child care and children's outcomes, and a discussion of the role of the family in child care selection and participation, with a focus on the literature of the 1990s |
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Assessing quality in childminding A discussion of child care quality assessments for child care centers in Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom |
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Assessment challenges and solutions with young second language learning children A transcript of a dialog between professionals on various approaches to the education of children learning English as a second language |
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Attracting and keeping qualified early childhood care centre staff An overview of factors causing problems for the recruitment and retention of qualified child care workers in Nova Scotia |
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Background for community-level work on school readiness: A review of definitions, assessments, and investment strategies A presentation of recommendations from the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) for defining and measuring school readiness, and a summary of suggested community initiatives based on a review of the relevant literature |
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Barriers to lone parents' employment: Looking beyond the obvious A discussion of the role of neighborhood disadvantage and policies to increase access to child care and training in the transition to employment among single parents on welfare |
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Be all that we can be: Lessons from the military for improving our nation's child care system An examination of ways in which the military made significant improvements in its child care system, including the military?s approach to improving quality, keeping care affordable for parents, and expanding availability, with lessons on how similar improvements might be made in civilian child care |
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Best practices in measuring growth and development for preschool children A paper on the development and application of Individual Growth and Development Indicators, indicators of performance in major developmental domains used for monitoring the rate of development of children ages 30 to 66 months |
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Bilingual means two: Assessment issues, early literacy and Spanish speaking children A paper outlining issues in the instruction of two-language children in reading and writing and implications for bilingual education programs. |
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Business leaders as legislative advocates for children: A case study from Boston A discussion of the contribution of business leaders' advocacy efforts to the passing of three child-focused pieces of legislation in Massachusetts |
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Care for the caregivers: An intrapersonal journey An inquiry into the work-life balance of child caregivers, based on a model of the self-assessment of challenges to healthful living |
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Care, paid work, and leisure: Rounding the triangle A discussion of the distribution of paid work and child care responsibilities and the impact of employment and child care policies on gender equity in France and the United Kingdom. |
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The CARES initiative in California: Pursuing public policy to build a skilled and stable child care workforce, 1997-2000 A history of the California Compensation and Retention Encourage Stability initiative from its beginnings in 1997 through the fall of 2000 designed intended to help build and reward a skilled and stable child care workforce throughout the state |
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Changing women's lives: Child care policy in Ireland A discussion of the growing role of women in the workforce, the changing social context of family life, and the on-going debate concerning state child care policies and funding in Ireland |
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Chicago Longitudinal Study A summary of the Chicago Longitudinal Study, an investigation of the educational and social development of 1,539 low income children who grew up in high-poverty neighborhoods in Chicago |
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Child care and community economic development: Critical roles for legal services An exploration of the potential role of legal services providers in ameliorating the child care crisis for low-income families, and its potential benefit to the community |
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The Child Care and Development Fund: An overview An overview of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), the principal source of federal funding for child care subsidies for low income families and the principal source of federal funding for initiatives to improve the quality of child care in states |
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Child care and early learning organizational study as requested by the Washington State Legislature A review of Washington State's child care infrastructure, examining child care centers' organizational structures and surveying child care workers and directors to gain understanding of the organizational design |
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Child care and education An overview of early childhood education and care in Michigan, with a focus on after school care and programs for at-risk families |
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Child care and mothers' employment decisions |
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Child care in cultural context: Issues for new research An Australian study detailing the theoretical and empirical literature on home-child care congruity and inconsistency on child development |
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