Child care center quality differences: The role of profit status, client preferences, and trust
An investigation of the view that in a mixed child care industry providing services to poorly informed customers, for-profit producers provide lower quality care than non-profit producers by skimping on quality characteristics that buyers cannot easily observe
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Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity
A study of the influence of poverty, minority ethnic background, gender, and parental authoritarian beliefs on the relationship between child care quality and children’s developmental outcomes
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The consistency of perceived teacher-child relationships between preschool and kindergarten
A longitudinal study of consistency in teacher perceptions of the quality of children’s teacher-child relationships over a three-year period encompassing both preschool and kindergarten
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Early Head Start and early intervention: A collaborative approach to serving infants and toddlers with disabilities in natural environments
An examination of the collaborations between Early Head Start programs and early intervention service providers for children with disabilities outlined by Part C of the 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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Extended Service Schools: Putting programming in place
A multi-year evaluation of a nationwide Extended-Service Schools Adaption Initiative, a school based youth program for children living in poor communities
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A framework for describing variations in state early intervention systems
A description of a framework designed to describe variations in states' early intervention programs, focusing on domains such as interagency issues, eligibility criteria, extent of within-state variation, models of intake, and models of service coordination
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Head Start-child care partnership study
An evaluation the establishment of Head Start collaboration offices designed to hasten cooperation among Head Start programs via the case study method
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The production of quality in child-care centers: Another look
An examination of the influence of group size, staff-child ratio, and teacher qualifications on the quality of a child care center
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Social-emotional classroom climate in child care, child-teacher relationships and children's second grade peer relations
A longitudinal study of the influence of preschool socio-emotional climate and early individual child-teacher relationships and behavior problems in predicting second grade social competence with peers
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Sudden infant death syndrome in child care settings
An examination of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in child care settings, focusing on the factors of children’s sleep position, age, race, and parental education
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Vaccination coverage among children enrolled in Head Start programs or day care facilities or entering school
A synthesis of reported data on vaccination rates of children in public schools and licensed child care centers, using information gathered through the Center for Disease Control’s National Immunization Program
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Who is watching our kids?: A profile of the Colorado child care workforce in the year 2000
A study of the characteristics of the child care workforce in Colorado, including qualifications, wages, benefits, turnover, and work attitudes, based on a survey of family child care providers, center-based child care workers, and child care center directors
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