Early childhood education leadership development compendium: A view of the current landscape
A study of the characteristics of programs that support leadership development in the early childhood education field, based on survey responses from 55 leadership development programs
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Estimates of child care eligibility and receipt for fiscal year 2009
An examination of children's eligibility for and receipt of federal child care subsidies under federal parameters and state-defined rules
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Trends in group child care home licensing regulations and policies for 2011
An analysis of state group child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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Trends in family child care home licensing requirements and policies for 2011
An analysis of state family child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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Trends in child care center licensing regulations and policies for 2011
An analysis of state child care center licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, child-adult ratios, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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Championing success: Business organizations for early childhood investments
A study of the early childhood policy and advocacy efforts of formal business membership organizations, based on survey responses from 104 local chambers of commerce and from 121 state business roundtables, state chambers of commerce, and city chambers of commerce
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The state of preschool 2012: State preschool yearbook
An annual review of access to, quality standards 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 2011-2012 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs
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We can do better: Child Care Aware of America's ranking of state child care center regulations and oversight: 2013 update
A review of program requirements and oversight in state child care center licensing regulations, based on an analysis of state child care licensing regulations and a survey of child care licensing directors in each state, the District of Columbia, and at the United States Department of Defense
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Impacts of a prekindergarten program on children's mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills
Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small-to-large impacts on children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten program that implemented a coaching system and consistent literacy, language, and mathematics curricula on these and other nontargeted, essential components of school readiness, such as executive functioning. Participants included 2,018 four and five-year-old children. Findings indicated that the program had moderate-to-large impacts on children's language, literacy, numeracy and mathematics skills, and small impacts on children's executive functioning and a measure of emotion recognition. Some impacts were considerably larger for some subgroups. For urban public school districts, results inform important programmatic decisions. For policy makers, results confirm that prekindergarten programs can improve educationally vital outcomes for children in meaningful, important ways. (author abstract)
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Teachers' emotional support consistency predicts children's achievement gains and social skills
A study of the relationship between consistency of teachers' emotional support and academic and social outcomes for young children, based on multiple observations conducted in 694 early care and education classrooms
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A pilot study to examine the effect of additional structured outdoor playtime on preschoolers' physical activity levels
An examination of the impact of an additional 30 minutes of outdoor playtime three days per week for four weeks on physical activities of young children in preschools, based on data from 134 children in eight full-day early care and education classrooms in Springfield, Massachusetts
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Associations between classroom quality and children's vocabulary and executive function skills in an urban public prekindergarten program
An examination of associations between classroom quality and both receptive vocabulary and executive function, based on data from 414 children attending the Boston Public Schools public prekindergarten program in 2009-2010
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Bringing transmedia to expanded learning settings: Emerging practices
An examination of efforts by 11 public television stations to incorporate transmedia storytelling, which links interactive games, television series, and websites to established children's educational characters, into out-of-school time programs serving young children, based on site visits, progress reports, and interviews with television station staff
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The link between preschoolers' phonological awareness and mothers' book-reading and reminiscing practices in low-income families
A study of the relationship between children's phonological awareness and mothers' book-reading and reminiscing practices with their children, based on data from 57 low income families from ethnically diverse backgrounds attending Head Start centers in central Massachusetts
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Achieving, connecting, thriving: The ACT Results Framework for Boston youth: Project background, methodology and recommended next steps
An examination of efforts in Boston, Massachusetts, to establish a citywide framework for out-of-school time program outcomes in the domains of achieving, connecting, and thriving (ACT), based on interviews and focus groups with local and national stakeholders, a review of other outcomes frameworks, stakeholder feedback on draft frameworks, and a survey of out-of-school time providers
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Effect of early educational intervention on younger siblings: The Infant Health and Development Program
A study of the relationship between participation of an older sibling in an early intervention program and the younger sibling's measures of intelligence, youth behavioral problems, and expectations of the future, based on data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), an eight-site randomized trial of three years of early education for premature low-birth-weight infants who were followed up through age 18, and 229 siblings of participating children born within 5 years of the IHDP study participants
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The Assessment of Afterschool Program Practices Tool (APT): Findings from the APT Validation Study
Findings from an exploration of the validity and reliability of the Assessment of Afterschool Program Practices Tool (APT), an observational measure of quality in after school programs, based on observations conducted in 25 after school programs in Massachusetts and on survey responses from 824 children in the programs
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School readiness: A multifaceted, developmental approach
A study of patterns of children's school readiness, the relationship of children's early child care experiences to their school readiness and success, the relationship of children's school readiness to their school success, and the role of family risk factors in children's school readiness, based on analysis of data for 1,364 children from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
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Timing of high-quality child care and cognitive, language, and preacademic development
A study of the relationship between exposure to different combinations of high- versus low-quality child care during two developmental periods--infant-toddlerhood and preschool, and children's cognitive, language, and preacademic development, based on data from 1,364 young children from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Effects of locomotor skill program on minority preschoolers' physical activity levels
A study of the effects of a teacher-taught, locomotor skill (LMS)-based physical activity (PA) program on the LMS and PA levels of young minority children, based on data from 71 children aged 2.9-5 in 8 low-socioeconomic status preschool classrooms
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Downward slide: State child care assistance policies 2012
A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2011 and February 2012 and between 2001 and February 2012, 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 child care administrators in each state and the District of Columbia
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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states
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Predicting acceptance of diversity in pre-kindergarten classrooms
A study of the relationships between diversity-promoting practices in prekindergarten classrooms and classroom composition, process quality, and teacher characteristics, based on data from 692 publicly-supported prekindergarten classrooms across 11 states, from both the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the State-Wide Early Education Programs Study (SWEEP)
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Expanding access to Early Head Start: State initiatives for infants & toddlers at risk
A study of state efforts to expand and enhance Early Head Start services, based on interviews with Head Start-state collaboration administrators in 23 states
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Practices for promoting young children's learning in QRIS standards
An analysis of child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) standards in 23 states to identify practices for supporting children's early learning in eight areas, based on coding of state QRIS standards and early learning guidelines
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