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The 2005 Alabama child care workforce study
Alabama Partnership for Children, 2006
Montgomery: Alabama Partnership for Children.

A study of the characteristics of the child care workforce in Alabama, including qualifications, wages, and turnover, based on a survey of family child care providers, center-based child care workers, and child care center directors in 19 counties

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The 2005 child care licensing study: Final report
National Association for Regulatory Administration, December 2006
Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration.

A compilation of survey data on state child care licensing programs and policies, including staffing, monitoring, and enforcement, and child care center licensing regulations, for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2005

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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

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Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies
Adams, Gina, 2006
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

The second part of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on child care subsidy use by parents in transition from TANF to employment

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Child care subsidies for TANF families: The nexus of systems and policies
Adams, Gina, 2006
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

First of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on administrative structures, protocols and interagency coordination as they affect TANF parents

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Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence
Barbarin, Oscar, 2006
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(2), 265-276

An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence

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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research?
Scott-Little, Catherine, 2006
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(2), 153-173

An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness

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Early childhood teacher preparation programs in the United States: State report for Alabama
Maxwell, Kelly, 2006
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, National Prekindergarten Center.

An overview of the characteristics of the programs, faculty, and students in early childhood teacher preparation programs to prepare the workforce of service providers to children under age 5 in Alabama

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The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project: How Early Head Start programs are reaching out to kith and kin caregivers: Final interim report
Paulsell, Diane, 2006
Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research.

A preliminary descriptive evaluation of the Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, analyzing participant characteristics and program design as they affect the extension of home visitation services to relatives and non-relatives caring for infants and toddlers enrolled in home-based Early Head Start programs

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Fathers of U.S. children born in 2001: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Avenilla, Frank, July 2006
(E.D. Tab, NCES 2006-002). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

Findings from a survey of biological fathers of sampled children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), including data on fathers' demographic characteristics, attitudes about fathering, and involvement in child care

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The importance of child care in economic development: A comparative analysis of regional economic linkage
Warner, Mildred, 2006
Economic Development Quarterly, 20(1), 97-103

An analysis of the regional economic impact of the child care sector, as compared to the agriculture, manufacturing, and services sectors, using state-level input-output models

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K-2 standards and assessments: A 50-state review
Kauerz, Kristie, June, 2006
Philadelphia: National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force.

A descriptive study of each state's kindergarten, first grade, and second grade content standards and mandatory assessments

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National Household Education Surveys program of 2005: After-school programs and activities: 2005
Carver, Priscilla R., 2006
(E.D. TAB, NCES 2006-076). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

An examination of data from the After-School Programs and Activities survey on the participation of kindergarteners through eighth graders in after school programs, with discussion of the survey’s design, the different types of after school care, their participation rates, and the expenses surrounding various types of after school care

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Preparing early childhood teachers to successfully educate all children: The contribution of four-year undergraduate teacher preparation programs
Ray, Aisha, October, 2006
New York: Foundation for Child Development.

A study of whether early childhood teacher bachelor's degree requirements meet the developmental and educational needs of children with special needs, racial and ethnic minority children, children from low-income families, immigrant children, and second language learners

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Public preschool and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of kindergartens into American public schools
Cascio, Elizabeth, 2006
(NBER Working Paper Series No. 12179). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

A comparative analysis of the effect of the availability of public kindergarten programs on the employment patterns of women with five-year-old children, using data from the 1950 through 1990 Decennial Censuses

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Strategies for supporting quality in kith and kin child care: Findings from the Early Head Start Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot evaluation
United States. Head Start Bureau, 28 July, 2006
Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research.

A descriptive evaluation of the Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, an initiative supporting the quality of kith and kin child care provision for infants and toddlers in Early Head Start, based on site visits, staff telephone interviews, quality observations, caregiver interviews, and administrative records

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Teacher and classroom characteristics associated with teachers' ratings of prekindergartners' relationships and behaviors
Mashburn, Andrew J., 2006
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 24(4), 367-380

An investigation of the effects of teacher and classroom characteristics on their ratings of preschool socioemotional competence using data from the National Center for Early Development and Learning Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten, 2001-2003

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