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Barriers to subsidies: Why low-income families do not use child care subsidies
Shlay, Anne B., 2003
Philadelphia: Temple University, Center for Public Policy.

An investigation into the factors responsible for non-use of child care subsidies among subsidy-eligible families, based on a survey of 196 subsidy-eligible low income African American parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Child care and common communicable illnesses in children aged 37 to 54 months
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 157(2), 196-200

A study of the relationship between experience in child care and common communicable illnesses in children aged 37 to 54 months

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Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) report to Congress: Submitted January 2003
United States. Child Care Bureau, 2003
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

A report providing various state and federal information regarding the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)

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The Child Care HOME Inventories: Assessing the quality of family child care homes
Bradley, Robert H., 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(3), 294-309

An overview of the different versions of the HOME Inventory for use in assessing quality of family child care homes

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Child care problems and work outcomes for low-skilled mothers
Press, Julie E., 2003
Philadelphia: Temple University, Center for Public Policy. http://unix.temple.edu/%7ejpress/Ford%20Final%20Report.pdf (no longer accessible since December 5, 2005)

A study of the child care problems and choices of urban, poor, and working mothers, and a study of the relationship between work-related outcomes and child care problems, broken down by a variety of household demographic measures and based on data collected from 1,072 mothers from a sample of low income Philadelphia neighborhoods

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Child care: Recent state policy changes affecting the availability of assistance for low-income families
United States. General Accounting Office, 2003
(GAO-03-588). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

An examination of state policy developments affecting the availability of child care assistance for low-income families

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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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Counting the child care workforce: A catalog of state data sources to quantify and describe child caregivers in the fifty states and the District of Columbia
Breunig, Gretchen Stahr, 2003
Seattle: University of Washington, Human Services Policy Center.

A report on data sources suitable for use in calculating the size of the child care workforce for individual states

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Cumberland County and Great Carlisle Area United Way: Success by Six: ECERS-R training
Carl, Barbara, 2003
Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State University, Capital Area Early Childhood Training Institute.

An evaluation of a workshop designed to teach child care center directors and staff how to use the revised version of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale to assess their own centers and knowledge of environmental quality

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Cumberland County and Greater Carlisle Area United Way Success by Six ECERS-R training
Carl, Barbara, June 2003
Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State University, Capital Area Health and Human Development Institute.

A description of a quality self-assessment training program for child care teachers and directors, and findings from a survey of pre-training and post-training knowledge and behaviors, based on a sample of 62 early childhood educators in Cumberland County and Greater Carlisle, Pennsylvania

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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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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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Does amount of time spent in child care predict socioemotional adjustment during the transition to kindergarten?
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Child Development, 74(4), 976-1005

A study of the links between children's socioemotional development and both the cumulative amount of time spent in nonmaternal care from birth to the preschool years, and the quality, type, and other characteristics of 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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Early care and education partnerships: State actions and local lessons
Schilder, Diane, 2003
Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Center for Children and Families.

An inquiry into the nature and durability of partnerships between early childhood education and care providers and community organizations that support parents’ child care needs

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Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Infant Behavior & Development, 26(3), 345-370

A study of the relationship between early child care experiences in a child's first 3 years of life and mother-child interaction through the child's transition to school

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Head Start: Better data and processes needed to monitor underenrollment
United States. General Accounting Office, 2003
(GAO-04-17). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

A report addressing the extent to which Head Start grantees were underenrolled and identifying potential causes of underenrollment

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Head Start mentoring on inclusion “best practices” for young children with special needs: Program evaluation of the quality and outcomes of the region III DSQIC model
Bagnato, Stephen J., November 30, 2003
Williamsburg, VA: Child Development Resources.

An evaluation of the Region III DSQIC (Disabilities Services Quality Improvement Center) model, an initiative to provide mentoring and technical assistance services to early childhood programs to help integrate children with disabilities into the regular program day, in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC

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The impact of a computer-based training system on strengthening phonemic awareness and increasing reading ability level
Slattery, Cheryl A., 2003
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Widener University, Chester, PA

A study of the impact of the Fast ForWord computer training system, implemented as an after school program, on the phonemic awareness and reading ability of students reading below grade level in grades three, four, and five

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Inside the content: The breadth and depth of early learning standards
Scott-Little, Catherine, 2003
Greensboro, NC: SERVE.

A study of the content and development of state-level early learning standards for kindergarten through twelfth grade in 2004

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Lycoming County early childhood quality research project
Carl, Barbara, 2003
Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State University, Capital Area Early Childhood Training Institute.

A study of the quality of care in Pennsylvania's Lycoming County's child care programs, comparing the county results to results from a statewide study of early child care program quality

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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

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Moderators of academic achievement and social-emotional functioning in migrant Latino children receiving after-school care
Riggs, Nathaniel R., 2003
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

A study of how factors such as age, acculturation, family functioning, and parental involvement, combined with participation in an after school program affect the academic outcomes of Latino elementary school children, based on parent and child questionnaires and child assessments

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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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Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States
Smith, Linda K., June, 2003
Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012)

A national study of child care resource and referral agencies, including services provided to parents and providers, sources and levels of agency funding, and agency data collecting activities, based on a survey of state child care resource and referral agencies

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