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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6 |
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Are state child care regulations meeting national oral health and nutritional standards? A study of state child care regulations in the United States in terms of their inclusion of selected oral health and nutrition standards related to early childhood dental cavities, based on a review of regulations in 50 states and the District of Columbia, from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education |
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Child care in the American South: Poverty, costs, and quality A study of the relationship between the use of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) in southern states and family poverty, child care costs, and a variety of related socioeconomic variables, based on data from the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010, for 14 southern states |
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The differential effects of preschool: Evidence from Virginia A study of the association between attendance in a state-funded prekindergarten program and both literacy through first grade and the likelihood of kindergarten repetition, and an analysis of these differences among groups of children of different races and disability statuses, based on an analysis of data from a cohort of children at approximately 1,000 Virginia schools |
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Does context matter?: Explicit print instruction during reading varies in its influence by child and classroom factors A study of the relationship between preschool teachers' explicit print instruction during shared reading and children's language abilities, and a second study of the relationship between language abilities and classroom quality, classroom literacy environment, and attention skills, based on data from 379 children and their 59 teachers throughout Virginia and Ohio |
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Downward slide: State child care assistance policies 2012 A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2011 and February 2012 and between 2001 and February 2012, 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 child care administrators in each state and the District of Columbia |
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Estimates of child care eligibility and receipt for fiscal year 2009 An examination of children's eligibility for and receipt of federal child care subsidies under federal parameters and state-defined rules |
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Examining cost fulfillment: Child care policy and strategies A study of correlations among a variety of characteristics of child care subsidy eligibility policies in 20 cities across 15 states, and an identification of four categories of similar types of city-specific subsidy offerings, based on an examination of the local policies regarding the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) subsidies |
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Home literacy exposure and early language and literacy skills in children who struggle with behavior and attention problems A study of the relationships of the behavior and attention problems and of the early home literacy environment, as well as of the interaction between the two, to the language and literacy skills of 4-year-olds, based on data for 1,364 children from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development |
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How many letters should preschoolers in public programs know?: The diagnostic efficiency of various preschool letter-naming benchmarks for predicting first-grade literacy achievement A study of the association between end-of-preschool letter-naming abilities and risk status on first-grade measures of word reading, spelling, and reading comprehension, and an examination of optimal end-of-preschool letter-naming benchmarks for the children in the sample, based on data from 371 children in Virginia and Ohio |
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Leaving children to chance: NACCRRA's ranking of state standards and oversight for small family child care homes: 2012 update A ranking of state regulation and oversight of family child care homes against 16 benchmarks, based on an analysis of state child care licensing regulations |
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Observing preschoolers' social-emotional behavior: Structure, foundations, and prediction of early school success An extraction of a shortened version of the Minnesota Preschool Affect Checklist, Revised, a comparison of the structure, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and stability of both versions, and, using the shortened measure, an examination of age, gender, and risk status differences in socioemotional behaviors, the relationship between emotion knowledge and both executive function and socioemotional behaviors, and of the relationship between socioemotional behaviors and early school adjustment and later kindergarten academic success of preschoolers, based on data from 352 3- and 4-year-olds attending private child care and Head Start programs, followed over time, and their parents |
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Parents and the high cost of child care: 2012 report A state-by-state study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, 4-year-old children, and school-age children in 2011, 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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Ready for success: Creating collaborative and thoughtful transitions into kindergarten An examination of state- and local-level approaches to the kindergarten transition process in California, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Virginia, based on interviews with 24 key informants |
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Refining the Preschool Self-regulation Assessment for use in preschool classrooms A validity study of the Preschool Self-regulation Assessment (PSRA) for both research and applied purposes that includes an examination of each tasks' usability at two time points, of their structure and reliability, of differences in the components of the measure by age, gender, and socioeconomic risk status, and a description of teachers' reports on school readiness, classroom adjustment, and academic success across two periods, based on data from 313 preschoolers and their teachers enrolled in Head Start and private child care centers in Northern Virginia |
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Social-emotional learning profiles of preschoolers' early school success: A person-centered approach An examination of emotion knowledge, emotional and social behaviors, social problem-solving, and self-regulation, clustered to typify groups of children who differ by early school adjustment and academic success, based on data from 275 4-year-olds from private child care centers and Head Start and their preschool and kindergarten teachers in the Northern Virginia area |
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The state of preschool 2012: State preschool yearbook An annual review of access to, quality standards 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 2011-2012 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs |
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State pre-k assessment policies: Issues and status A discussion of considerations for and approaches to the assessment of young children and a study of state prekindergarten child assessment policies in the 2011-2012 school year, based on a survey of state prekindergarten program personnel |
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Timing of high-quality child care and cognitive, language, and preacademic development A study of the relationship between exposure to different combinations of high- versus low-quality child care during two developmental periods--infant-toddlerhood and preschool, and children's cognitive, language, and preacademic development, based on data from 1,364 young children from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care |
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Virginia Department of Education: Evaluation of 21st Century Community Learning Centers An evaluation of Virginia 21st Century Community Learning Centers during the 2010-2011 program year that: examines center characteristics, including parental education services and student participation; compares the gains in reading and mathematics achievement of participants and matched nonparticipants; explores associations between center characteristics and participants' reading and mathematics achievement; and identifies promising practices and challenges to meeting centers' objectives, based on program reporting data and state reading and mathematics assessment data |
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