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An after-school obesity prevention program for African-American girls: The Minnesota GEMS pilot study
Story, Mary, 2003
Ethnicity & Disease, 13(1 Suppl. 1), S54-S64

A presentation of findings on the development of an after school obesity prevention program for African-American girls in Minnesota, based on a sample of 54 8 to 10-year-old girls and their caregivers

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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 industry: Supporting jobs and economic development in Minneapolis
Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association, 2003
Minneapolis, MN: Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association.

An analysis of child care in Minneapolis as a service for working parents and their children and as an integral component of the local economy

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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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Child support, child care and Head Start collaboration: Innovations & ideas
United States. Office of Child Support Enforcement, 2003
Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Child Support Enforcement.

A description of the efforts of six states to promote collaboration between Head Start, Child Support, and subsidized child care programs, subsequent to receiving demonstration grants from the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)

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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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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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The economic impact of the child care industry in Minnesota
Traill, Saskia, 2003
Oakland, CA: National Economic Development and Law Center.

A report on the relationship between the child care industry and the Minnesota state economy, highlighting the contributions to economic productivity and to building a strong economy for the future

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The effects of welfare and employment policies on child care use by low-income young mothers
Gassman-Pines, Anna, 2003
(Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 19). New York: MDRC.

A study examining the welfare and employer child care policies on low income young mothers, using data from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS), Florida’s Family Transition Program (FTP) and the Minnesota’s Family Investment Program (MFIP)

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Government's role in early childhood development
Madden, Tobias, 2003
Minneapolis, MN: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

A survey highlighting the degree to which business leaders thought the federal government should commit to early childhood development

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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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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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Minnesota School Readiness Initiative: Developmental assessment at kindergarten entrance: Fall 2002 pilot study
Minnesota. Department of Education, 2003
Roseville: Minnesota Department of Education.

A report on the outcome of a pilot study of a kindergarten readiness assessment for Minnesota kindergartners

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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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Setting the pace: Model inclusive child care centers serving families of children with emotional or behavioral challenges
Brennan, Eileen M., 2003
Portland, OR: Portland State University, Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health.

An examination of child care programs that provide fully-inclusive, exemplary services to families of special needs children, with a description of program components, discussion of the meaning of “inclusion” and of addressing challenges to inclusive practices in early care and education settings, and a review of literature on educational inclusion

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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 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

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Sustaining quality after school programs: Practical recommendations from the field
Peterson, Terry, 2003
Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

A nationally representative survey of Twenty-first Century Community Learning Center grantees rated 11 commonly recommended sources of funding for sustaining after school programs, including in kind resources from a school district and a half-time coordinator paid for by the school district

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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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