State policies that promote early childhood mathematics
National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2003
Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
A study by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) on state standards of early childhood mathematical education, educational level and professional development recommended for educators, curriculum and testing requirements
Reports & Papers
Do children's attention processes mediate the link between family predictors and school readiness
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Developmental Psychology, 39(3), 581-593
A study of the mediating role of child's attention processes in the relation between family environment and school readiness
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Diversity, child care quality, and developmental outcomes
Burchinal, Margaret, 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(4), 401-426
A study investigating the relationship between children's ethnicities and the validity of standardized child care quality measures, using data from the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study and the NICHD Study of Early Child Care
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Does quality of child care affect child outcomes at age 4 1/2?
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Developmental Psychology, 39(3), 451-469
A study exploring the causal nature of relations between child care quality and children's development, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Modeling the impacts of child care quality on children's preschool cognitive development
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Child Development, 74(5), 1454-1475
A journal article using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care to evaluate three methods for modeling the effects of child care quality on preschool children's cognitive development
Reports & Papers
Third national Even Start evaluation: Program impacts and implications for improvement
United States. Department of Education. Planning and Evaluation Service, 2003
(Doc No. 2005-05). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Planning and Evaluation Service.
Findings from the third national evaluation of the federal Even Start family literacy program, including a description of the program and its participants, and a discussion of program impacts based on data from an experimental study of Even Start's effectiveness in 18 projects
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The NICHD Study of Early Child Care: Contexts of development and developmental outcomes over the first seven years of life
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
In J. Brooks-Gunn, A.S. Fuligni, & L.J. Berlin (Eds.), Early child development in the 21st century (pp. 181-201). New York: Teachers College Press
A description of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care’s examination of the relationship between child care and children's development over the first seven years of life
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Investing in the child care industry: An economic development strategy for Kansas
Stoney, Louise, 2003
Kansas City, MO: Mid-America Regional Council.
An overview of Kansas’s child care industry and a design to introduce greater public support for the industry’s economic development, including discussion of this industry’s impact on other industries, public investment in child care’s economic impact, the economic development strategy the state envisages for child care investment, and policy recommendations
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The state of preschool: 2003 state preschool yearbook
Barnett, W. Steven, 2003
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research.
The first of a series of annual reviews of access, quality, and resources in state funded preschool programs for children aged 3 and 4, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, during the 2001-2002 program year
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State administration of the Even Start Family Literacy Program: Structure, process and practices
United States. Department of Education. Office of the Under Secretary, 2003
(Doc No. 2003-14). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Under Secretary.
A description of all major areas of Even Start Family Literacy Program administration at the state level and the factors that facilitate or impede program improvement activities conducted by Even Start state coordinators
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Evaluating the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Child-care worker apprenticeships in the Western states: Final report
United States. Employment and Training Administration. Office of Apprenticeship, Training, Employer and Labor Services, 30 April, 2003
Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates.
A process evaluation of the first two rounds of the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce, in Western states, based on site visits
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Coming together for children with disabilities: State collaboration to support quality, inclusive child care
Mezey, Jennifer, 2003
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.
A study of state policies which would provide special education and early intervention services to low-income children with disabilities in child care programs
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