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America After 3PM: Special report on summer: Missed opportunities, unmet demand
Afterschool Alliance, May 2010
Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

A study of the summer child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students during the summer of 2008, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households

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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states

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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states

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A compilation of initiatives to support home-based child care
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March 31, 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A compilation of profiles of 96 initiatives that target and support home-based child care

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Development of a questionnaire assessing teacher perceived support for and attitudes about social and emotional learning
Schultz, David, November 2010
Early Education and Development, 21(6), 865-885

An exploration of the utility of a questionnaire for the assessment of teachers' perceptions with regards to both their responsibility for child socioemotional development and their implementation of the Second Step learning program, based data on 149 Head Start teachers from 15 centers in Baltimore, Maryland

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Early care and education state budget actions FY 2010
Clothier, Steffanie, April, 2010
Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures.

A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal year 2010, based on a survey of legislative fiscal offices in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories

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Employed rural, low-income, single mothers' family and work over time
Son, Seohee, March 2010
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 31(1), 107-120

A study of perceptions of difficulties and challenges of balancing family, child care, and work responsibilities, based on a secondary analysis of interview data with of 28 rural, low-income, continuously employed, and single mothers across 11 states over three waves of data collection between 1999 and 2003, who took part in the longitidunal Rural Families Speak Project

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Evaluating lasting effects of full-day prekindergarten program on school readiness, academic performance, and special education services
Zhao, Huafang, April 2010
Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Public Schools, Office of Shared Accountability.

An investigation of the effect of prekindergarten program length on children’s school readiness and future participation in special education services, based on a sample of 391 students in half-day Head Start classes, 260 students in full-day Head Start classes, and 1,887 in half-day prekindergarten classes sponsored by the Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) system

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Examining different forms of implementation and in early childhood curriculum research
Odom, Samuel L., Q3 2010
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25(3), 314-328

A study of the relationships between structural, process, and combined measures of implementation of the Children's School Success curriculum across both sites and time, and their associations to child outcomes, in 51 preschool classes at nationally-dispersed sites over the course of one school year

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Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers: 2010 update
Blank, Helen, June 2010
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

An examination of statewide efforts between February 2007 and March 2010 to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions

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Head Start: Undercover testing finds fraud and abuse at selected Head Start centers
United States. Government Accountability Office, September 2010
(GAO-10-1049). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office.

An investigation into allegations of fraud in Head Start programs, including enrollment over-reporting and misrepresentation of applicant eligibility, based on undercover visits to Head Start grantees in California, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC

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Impact of full-day prekindergarten program on student academic performance: Results for second (2008-2009) cohort
Maina, Nyambura Susan, October, 2010
Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Public Schools, Office of Shared Accountability.

A study of the impact of program length on children's literacy and mathematics achievement, based on child assessment data from 2,103 students in public prekindergarten and Head Start classes in Montgomery County, Maryland, who received full-day Head Start, half-day Head Start, or half-day public prekindergarten instruction

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Lessons in early learning: Building an integrated pre-k-12 system in Montgomery County Public Schools
Marietta, Geoff, August, 2010
New York: Foundation for Child Development.

An account of the development of an integrated prekindergarten through twelfth grade learning system in Montgomery County, Maryland, with a focus on 5 strategies for the implementation of the learning system

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Linking urban families to community resources in the context of pediatric primary care
Garg, Arvin, May 2010
Patient Education and Counseling, 79(2), 251-254

A description of the use of Family Help Desk to connect at risk families to community resources, including child care, based on a longitudinal cohort pilot study over 6 weeks in an urban academic-based health clinic in Baltimore in 2007

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NCSL technical report: State approaches to school readiness assessment
Stedron, Jennifer, August 2010
Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures.

An examination of states' kindergarten assessment practices and use and reporting of school readiness information, based on data from the 25 states that perform kindergarten assessments

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Parents and the high cost of child care: 2010 update
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, August, 2010
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

A state-by-state study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, preschool-age children, and school-age children in 2009, based on a national survey of state child care resource and referral networks and local child care resource and referral agencies

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Pre-kindergarten in the south: Preserving the region's comparative advantage in education
Southern Education Foundation, 2010
Atlanta, GA: Southern Education Foundation.

An examination of the provision of prekindergarten services in the Southern United States, and a discussion of early childhood education as the region's comparative educational advantage

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State child care assistance policies 2010: New federal funds help states weather the storm
Schulman, Karen, September 2010
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2009 and February 2010, including changes to income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent copayments, reimbursement rates, and assistance to parents searching for a job, based on a survey of state child care administrators

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The state of preschool 2010: State preschool yearbook
Barnett, W. Steven, 2010
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research.

An annual review of access to, quality in, and resources devoted to state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia during the 2009-2010 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs

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