The 2005 Alabama child care workforce study
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
Reports & Papers
2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Childminders
A study of the characteristics of family child care providers in the United Kingdom, including average number of children served, income, qualifications, and training, based on provider surveys
Reports & Papers
2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Full day care providers
A study of characteristics of organizations providing full-day child care in the United Kingdom, including characteristics of children served and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training, based on provider surveys
Reports & Papers
2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Out-of-school providers
A study of characteristics of organizations providing out-of-school time child care in the United Kingdom, including characteristics of children served and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training, based on provider surveys
Reports & Papers
2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Overview report
A comparison of characteristics--including staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training--of child care provider organizations in four sectors--family child care providers, out-of-school time providers, full-day care providers, and part-day providers--in the United Kingdom, based on provider surveys
Reports & Papers
2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Sessional day care providers
A study of characteristics of organizations providing part-time child care in the United Kingdom, including characteristics of children served and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training, based on provider surveys
Reports & Papers
The 2005 child care licensing study: Final report
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
Reports & Papers
2005 report on child care in Cook County: Elements of child care supply and demand
An examination of the disconnect between child care supply and demand in Cook County, Illinois, with a focus on affordability and hours of care needed by parents
Reports & Papers
2006 Oregon child care market rate study
A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the state of Oregon in 2006
Reports & Papers
2006 Utah child care market rate study
A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the State of Utah in 2006
Reports & Papers
2006 Utah child care needs assessment
An assessment of the child population and the number of child care slots and vacancies in Utah by county
Reports & Papers
2007 EFA Global Monitoring Report: Strong foundations: Early childhood care and education
An assessment of the progress made by countries and national organizations toward meeting the goals of equitable provision of learning opportunities to all citizens from infancy to adulthood, expressed at the Jomtien World Conference on Education for All, based on cross-national education statistics, household surveys, consultations, literature reviews and commissioned papers, with a focus on national strategies for creating programs and improving services devoted to early childhood care and education
Reports & Papers
4K teachers in community approach and comparison districts: 2005-06
A survey-based study comparing characteristics (experience, salary, education, professional development, curricula) of Wisconsin four-year-old kindergarten (4K) teachers from districts that use a community approach to 4K to teachers from districts that offer 4K without a collaborative effort
Reports & Papers
The Abbott districts in 2005-2006: Progress and challenges
A presentation of findings from the Abbott Indicators Project for the 2005-2006 academic year, and a discussion of implementation challenges in Abbott districts and policy recommendations for secondary school standards reform in New Jersey
Reports & Papers
ABC Learning Centres: A case study of Australia's largest child care corporation
A study of child care quality in child care centers operated by ABC Learning Centres Limited, the largest child care corporation in Australia, based on responses from ABC Learning Centres staff from a national survey of child care center staff and on detailed follow-up telephone interviews with staff
Reports & Papers
Academic and cognitive functioning in first grade: Associations with earlier home and child care predictors and with concurrent home and classroom experiences
A study of the association between academic and cognitive development of first graders and the quantity and quality of child care, home learning environment, family demographics, and maternal characteristics of a sample of 832 children from 9 states
Reports & Papers
Accountability for quality: One state's experience in improving practice
A description of the initiative undertaken by the state of South Carolina to improve the quality of preschool and kindergarten classrooms in primary schools and an evaluation of the effects of the initiative
Reports & Papers
Addressing diversity and inclusion in the early years in conflict-affected societies: A case study of the Media Initiative for Children 1: Northern Ireland
Reports & Papers
Adjustment to the first year in school: A Singapore perspective
An examination of adjustment to school by 90 first graders from different ethnic, language, and socioeconomic backgrounds entering a school in western Singapore
Reports & Papers
Administrative costs in the Child and Adult Care Food Program: Results of an exploratory study of the reimbursement system for sponsors of family child care homes
A study of administrative cost reimbursement payment system for Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) sponsor organizations, which administer CACFP to participating family child care homes at the local level
Reports & Papers
Affordability funding models for early childhood services
A presentation of a model of available approaches for governments to use to ensure affordable early childhood services using international data from affordability models used by countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Reports & Papers
African American preschoolers' language, emergent literacy skills, and use of African American English: A complex relation
An examination of the relation between Head Start African American preschoolers' use of African American English and their language and emergent literacy skills
Reports & Papers
After-school program attendance and the social development of rural Latino children of immigrant families
A study of the influence of attendance on the social outcomes of Latino elementary school children who participated in an academically-oriented after school program, based on attendance records and teacher, parent, and child questionnaires
Reports & Papers
Age 2: Findings from the 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
A description of the demographic characteristics, early childhood development, maternal attachment, nonparental care experiences, and father involvement of two-year-old children, based on data from the nationally representative 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Reports & Papers
Aiming away: New Zealand child care supervisors' responses (2001-2002)
A study of child care supervisors’ perceptions of the purposes of their child care services, such as nurturing children, helping children learn, working with parents and community, and cultural advocacy, and their rankings of the importance of a list of stated purposes, based on the questionnaire responses of 78 New Zealand child care supervisors
Reports & Papers
