2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
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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ACF/OPRE report: Head Start children go to kindergarten
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A profile of the development, families, and home and school environments of kindergarten children who had entered Head Start in the fall of 2006, based on data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)
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ACF-OPRE report: A second year in Head Start: Characteristics and outcomes of children who entered the program at age three
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A profile of the development, families, and home environments of children participating in their second year of Head Start who had entered the program at age 3 in the fall of 2006, based on spring 2008 data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)
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ACF-OPRE report: A year in Head Start: Children, families and programs
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments from fall 2006 through spring 2007, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, based on data collected from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 135 centers, 410 classrooms, 365 teachers, and 3,315 children and their parents
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Associations between provider training and education and other quality indicators in low-income children's primary care arrangements at 24 months of age
Halle, Tamara, June 2009
(Publication No. 2009-18, OPRE Research Brief No. 2). Washington, DC: United States. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A comparison of quality indicators in home- and center-based child care settings serving two-year-old low income children, and of the relationship of quality indicators in those settings to provider training and education, based on an analysis of data from the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort
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Beginning Head Start: Children, families and programs in fall 2006: FACES 2006 baseline report
Tarullo, Louisa B., December 2008
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A profile of the characteristics of newly enrolled Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2006, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, based on data collected from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 135 centers, 410 classrooms, 365 teachers, and 3,315 children and their parents
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Building futures: The Head Start Impact Study: Interim report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2003
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A report describing the purpose and progress of the Head Start Impact Study
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Child care quality rating and improvement systems: Approaches to integrating programs for young children in two states
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011
(OPRE Report 2011-28). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
An examination of the role, and how to assess the role, that state child care quality rating and improvement systems can play in early childhood care and education system integration and development, based on document reviews, administrator interviews, and two-day site visits in Indiana and Pennsylvania
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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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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Defining and measuring quality: An in-depth study of five child care quality rating and improvement systems
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011
(OPRE Report 2011-29). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
An examination of aspects of child care quality rating and improvement systems related to definitions and measures of quality, including variation in definitions and measures, processes to measure each component and determine the overall level of quality, and availability of data on quality ratings, based on in-depth case studies in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Measuring quality across three child care quality rating and improvement systems: Findings from secondary analyses
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011
(OPRE Report 2011-30). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A study of the prevalence of quality components among participating child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) providers and their relationship to observed quality, based on analyses of QRIS administrative data, professional development registries, and observation data in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee
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Child outcomes and classroom quality in FACES 2009
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, September, 2012
(OPRE Report 2012-37a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2009 and spring 2010, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula, activities, and quality, based on fall 2009 and spring 2010 data for a sample of 370 classrooms and 3,022 children in the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES)
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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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Can we trust parental reports of child care subsidy receipt?
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2012
(Methodological Brief OPRE 2012-53). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A study of the incidence and implications of measurement error in parental reports of child care subsidy receipt in survey data, based on parent and provider reports of subsidy receipt from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national longitudinal cohort study
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Early Head Start children in grade 5: Long-term followup of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project study sample: Final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
(OPRE 2011-8). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A study of the impact of Early Head Start participation and of the influence of children's preschool and later school experiences on parenting, family well-being, and children's academic and socioemotional outcomes in grade 5, based on a longitudinal follow-up of participants in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
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The effect of child care subsidies for moderate-income families in Cook County, Illinois: Final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, September 2010
(OPRE 2011-3). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A study of the impact on employment, earnings, and child care outcomes of expanding child care subsidy eligibility to moderate-income families and of extending the subsidy eligibility redetermination period from six months to a year, based on 1,884 Cook County, Illinois, child care subsidy applicants with incomes exceeding the state's eligibility limit who were randomly assigned to standard or expanded eligibility and, if assigned to expanded eligibility, to standard or extended redetermination
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Effects of reducing child care subsidy copayments in Washington State: Final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, June 2010
(OPRE 2011-2). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A study of the impact on subsidy duration, employment, and income of reduced child care subsidy copayments, based on 5,106 Washington State child care subsidy applicants randomly assigned to standard or reduced copayment schedules
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Efforts to meet children's physical activity and nutritional needs: Findings from the I Am Moving, I Am Learning implementation evaluation: Final Report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, February 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
Findings from the implementation of I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IM/IL), a Head Start program enhancement intended to increase the amount of time devoted to moderate to vigorous physical activity, improve the quality of structured movement activities, and promote healthy food choices, based on interviews with program administrators of 56 Head Start programs that implemented IM/IL to supplement their curricula
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Enhanced Early Head Start with employment services: 42-month impacts from the Kansas and Missouri sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, February, 2012
(OPRE Report 2012-05). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A study of the impact of a program model that incorporates parental employment and educational services into Early Head Start on service receipt, child care and early education experiences, employment, earnings, household income, parenting practices, parental psychological well-being, and child outcomes, based on data collected from 610 families randomly assigned to treatment or control groups at two pilot sites in Kansas and Missouri
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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Findings from an experimental test of three language/literacy interventions in child care centers in Miami-Dade County: Final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, January 2009
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
Findings from a two-year experimental study of the impacts of three different language and literacy interventions on teacher behavior, classroom environment, and children's language development and early literacy skills in classrooms of 4-year-olds at child care centers serving children from low-income families in Miami-Dade County, Florida
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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Findings from Project Upgrade in Miami-Dade County
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March 2007
Washington, DC: U.S., Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
Findings from an experimental study of the impacts of three different language and literacy interventions on teacher behavior, classroom environment, and children's language development and early literacy skills in classrooms of 4-year-olds at child care centers serving children from low-income families in Miami-Dade County
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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Follow-up study of the participants in Project Upgrade in Miami-Dade: Research brief
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, June, 2010
(OPRE Report No. 2011-36). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
Findings from a follow-up study of the impacts on early elementary children's reading and math achievement of two early language and literacy interventions that had been implemented in classrooms for 4-year-olds at child care centers serving children from low-income families in Miami-Dade County, Florida
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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Implementation of three language and literacy interventions in Project Upgrade
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, June 2010
(OPRE 2011-4). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A study of the design and implementation of three different language and literacy interventions in child care centers serving children from low-income families in Miami-Dade County, Florida
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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Massachusetts family child care study
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, June 2010
(OPRE 2011-1). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
An implementation and impact evaluation of LearningGames, an intervention to promote children's development through language-rich interactions between caregivers and children, in family child care homes in Massachusetts, based on pre- and post-test observations of 173 experimental and 180 control providers
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Head Start children, families, and programs: Present and past data from FACES
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2011
(OPRE Report 2011-33a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2009, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, and a comparison to profiles from 2000, 2003, and 2006, based on data collected in fall 2009 from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 129 centers, 486 classrooms, and 3,349 children
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