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Early Learning Coalition of Duval report 2011-12 An examination of the school readiness skills and gains of children who attend early care and learning centers that participate in Guiding Stars of Duval, an initiative to improve the quality of early learning and care services in Jacksonville, Florida, based on pre- and posttest assessments of participants and on public school kindergarten readiness administrative data |
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Early learning programs and related delivery systems: Audit performed pursuant to Chapter 2011-142, Laws of Florida An examination of the governance structure, administration, oversight, and service delivery of state-funded early learning programs in Florida, based on audit procedures that include interviews with state agency staff, analyses of administrative data, a survey of 2,000 parents, interviews with 100 child care providers, and 20 provider site visits |
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Promising results: Educare implementation study data--June 2012 Findings from an implementation study of Educare, a full-day, full-year high-quality early care and education program for at risk children from birth to age 5, that examine children's school readiness, vocabulary, and socioemotional outcomes and classroom quality, based on data collected at 12 programs during the 2010-2011 school year |
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Early Learning Coalition of Duval report 2010-11 An examination of the school readiness skills and gains of children who attend early care and learning centers that participate in Guiding Stars of Duval, an initiative to improve the quality of early learning and care services in Jacksonville, Florida, based on pre- and posttest assessments of participants and public school kindergarten readiness administrative data |
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The state of preschool 2011: State preschool yearbook An annual review of access to, quality in, and resources devoted to state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia during the 2010-2011 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs |
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Impact of curriculum training on state-funded prekindergarten teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and practices An evaluation of the impact of an eight-week curriculum course on state-funded prekindergarten teachers' knowledge about developmentally appropriate curriculum, their beliefs about best practice, and their classroom instructional performance, and an examination of the relationship between teacher qualifications and their knowledge, beliefs, and instructional performance, based on data from 17 teachers in state-funded Voluntary Prekindergarten in Florida |
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Miami-Dade County Quality Counts workforce study A study of the characteristics, including training, education, qualifications, earnings, and turnover, of staff in early care and education programs participating in Quality Counts, a quality rating and improvement system in Miami-Dade County, Florida, based on data from a registry of 3,665 practitioners in 411 programs |
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Building partnerships between Early Head Start grantees and family child care providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care project: Final report An evaluation of Early Head Start (EHS) for Family Child Care, a project to support partnerships between EHS grantees and family child care providers, that examines the characteristics of participating grantees and providers, the implementation, types, and sustainability of the partnerships, and lessons learned, based on project administrative data, interviews with 13 partnership teams, descriptive quality indicators and Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data, and project documents |
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Supporting low-income parents of young children: The Palm Beach County family study fifth annual report Findings from the fifth year of a longitudinal study of service usage and child and family outcomes related to the comprehensive system of early intervention and prevention services for low income families developed by the Children's Services Council (CSC) of Palm Beach County, Florida, based on administrative data on family characteristics and service use, structured interviews with a sample of parents, and qualitative in-depth interviews with a subsample of parents |
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Determinants of household participation in Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten program A study of the relationship of child and family characteristics, including program awareness, to participation in Florida's publicly funded Voluntary Prekindergarten program, based on a survey of 1,305 randomly selected parents or legal guardians with children aged 4 and 5 |
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Welfare policies and adolescents: Exploring the roles of sibling care, maternal work schedules, and economic resources A study of the relationship between adolescent school performance and participation and maternal employment and changes in families' reliance on sibling care due to welfare reform, based on data from three longitudinal experimental evaluations of: (1) the Jobs First Evaluation conducted in New Haven and Manchester, Connecticut; (2) the Family Transition Program conducted in Escambia County, Florida; and (3) the statewide Indiana Welfare Reform Program |
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Ready Schools Miami: A systems change effort to improve children's outcomes Findings from an evaluation of Ready Schools Miami, a collaborative systems building initiative to support children's development through improved access to high quality early childhood education and elementary programs, that examines activities and achievements in the initiative's first three years, based on a system-level case study, elementary school case studies, early care and education center case studies, and community indicators |
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State early childhood advisory councils: An overview of implementation across the states An examination of developments and variation among state early childhood advisory councils, based on a review of state applications for grants provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as well as updates provided by council leadership |
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Teacher and center stability and school readiness among low-income, ethnically diverse children in subsidized, center-based child care An investigation of the relationships between cognitive, language, and socioemotional skill development over the course of a year and teacher and/or center stability, as well as an investigation of the influence of gender and ethnicity on that relationship, based on data from 3,238 four-year-olds in center-based child care in Miami |
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Effects of quality improvement system for child care centers An account of changes in classroom quality following implementations of a comprehensive quality improvement system (QIS), based on data from a random selection of classrooms from dozens of child care centers in Palm Beach County, Florida |
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Promoting healthy practices in child care centers: The role of child care resource and referral agencies A study of child care center obesity prevention practices and child care resource and referral agency health-related training and technical assistance offerings, based on a survey of 113 agencies from 29 states |
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Early literacy and early numeracy: The value of including early literacy skills in the prediction of numeracy development A study of the relationship between the early preschool measures of print knowledge, vocabulary, and phonological awareness, and the measures of numeracy skills a year later, in a sample of 69 children enrolled in 10 Florida preschools |
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State child care assistance policies 2011: Reduced support for families in challenging times A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2010 and February 2011 and between 2001 and February 2011, including changes to income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent copayments, reimbursement rates, and assistance to parents searching for a job, based on a survey of state child care administrators |
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Municipal leadership for afterschool: Citywide approaches spreading across the country An examination and profiles of city-led efforts to build comprehensive out-of-school time systems, based on surveys and interviews with representatives from 27 cities |
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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 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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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 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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Early care and education state budget actions FY 2011 A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal year 2011, based on a survey of legislative fiscal offices in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories |
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Contributions of emergent literacy skills to name writing, letter writing, and spelling in preschool children A study of the relationship between preschool children's emergent literacy skills and their name writing, letter writing, and spelling skills, based on data from 296 children 4- and 5-years-old at 30 private preschools and both public and private child care centers in north Florida |
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Parents and the high cost of child care: 2011 report A state-by-state study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, preschool-age children, and school-age children in 2010, based on a national survey of state child care resource and referral networks and local child care resource and referral agencies |
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Spanish phonological awareness: Dimensionality and sequence of development during the preschool and kindergarten years A psychometric validation of the dimensionality and continuum of Spanish phonological awareness in preschoolers and kindergartners and a second psychometric study of the sequence of emergence of Spanish Phonological awareness skills in preschoolers and kindergartners, based on data from 1,265 monolingual and bilingual children 3- through 6-years old in four program evaluation projects in Texas and Florida |
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