Legally-exempt child care: What does it mean in New York State?
A comparison of license-exempt child care provision and policies in New York State to provision and policies in California, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington, based on state surveys and key informant interviews
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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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The myth of American selfhood and emotion: Raising a sociocentric child among middle-class Americans
In this article, I examine the concepts of the self and emotion reflected in American middle-class socialization practices. Detailed ethnographic description of everyday socialization practices in an American middle-class preschool shows that contrary to the characterization that American notions of self and emotion are predominantly individualistic and egocentric, middle-class socialization practices are highly oriented toward developing sociocentric values such as niceness, cooperation, social appropriateness, empathy, friendship, politeness, and manners. I argue that the dichotomous model of self and emotion that consists of only two types--an egocentric Western self and a sociocentric non-Western self--fails to adequately describe variations and complexity in American experiences of self and emotion. The article contributes to a growing body of research that critically discusses the bipolarized model and argues for inherent dynamism and heterogeneity in our conceptions of the self and emotions. (author abstract)
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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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Priming the pipeline: Lessons from promising 4-H science programs
An examination of the challenges faced and strategies used to implement practices in eight domains by programs participating in 4-H Science, an initiative to increase 4-H science, technology, engineering, and applied math program offerings, based on interviews and site visits with 8 programs selected through a process to identify promising programs
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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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Great Parents, Great Start evaluation report: 2011-2012 program year
An evaluation of Great Parents, Great Start (GP,GS), a Michigan program to promote parenting skills and family involvement in children's early education, that examines program efforts to promote access to community services, based on 6 parent focus groups and on focus groups and interviews with GP,GS staff and parent leaders
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Great Start Readiness Program: 2010-2011 risk factor data report
An examination of the prevalence of risk indicators among children enrolled in the Great Start Readiness Program, Michigan's publicly-funded preschool program for at risk 4-year-olds, based on administrative data for more than 23,000 children
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2010-2011 Great Start Readiness Program: Program quality assessment: Statewide data report
Findings from an examination of the quality of preschool classrooms and the characteristics of teaching staff in the Great Start Readiness Program, Michigan's publicly-funded preschool program for at risk 4-year-olds, based on data for 1,127 classrooms and more than 1,000 teachers
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
A study of the effects of Perry Preschool, a program for at risk children in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on children's cognitive and personality skills, and an examination of the relationships of these skills, and of the program's contribution to these skills, to later academic, labor market, health, and crime outcomes, based on longitudinal data through age 40 for 123 randomly-assigned participants
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
A study of the effects of Perry Preschool, a program for at risk children in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on children's cognitive and personality skills, and an examination of the relationships of these skills, and of the program's contribution to these skills, to later academic, labor market, health, and crime outcomes, based on longitudinal data through age 40 for 123 randomly-assigned participants
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The Camp Program Quality Assessment (Camp PQA): Development and pilot study
Findings from an exploration of the development, validity, and reliability of the Camp Program Quality Assessment (Camp PQA), an assessment of day and residential camp setting quality, based on data collected at 20 camps
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Kinder Camp evaluation summary
An evaluation of Kinder Camp, a week-long summer program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to facilitate kindergarten transitions, that examines gains in children's school readiness skills, as well as parents' and educators' perceptions of the program, based on surveys from 25 parents and 6 educators and on pre- and post-program assessments for 37 children
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Family, friends & neighbors: Year 1 evaluation report
An evaluation of Family, Friends and Neighbor Care, a program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to improve the quality of home-based child care providers through home visits and play groups, that examines program implementation and changes in caregiving quality, children's vocabulary, and provider access to community resources, based on program data, surveys from 15 parents, stakeholder interviews and focus groups, pre- and post-program observations of 33 providers, and pre- and post-program assessments of 29 children
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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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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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Putting it together: A guide to financing comprehensive services in child care and early education
An examination of sources of federal funding for comprehensive services in early childhood settings, with examples of promising collaborations as part of state and local funding models, based on interviews with national experts, as well as with policymakers, advocates, and administrators
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Parents and the high cost of child care: 2012 report
A state-by-state study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, 4-year-old children, and school-age children in 2011, 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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Physical activity and beverages in home- and center-based child care programs
A comparison of physical activity, space, and beverage provision related to obesity prevention among a group of home- and center-based child care programs and in comparison to select elements of the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) best-practice guidelines, based on data from 168 licensed home- and center-based child care programs in Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Washington surveyed between October and December 2008
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Tools for student parent success: Varieties of campus child care
An examination of approaches to providing child care services at institutions of higher education, based on Internet searches, brief surveys of members of a campus child care organization listserv, and interviews with leaders in the field
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Michigan Great Start Readiness Program evaluation 2012: High school graduation and grade retention findings
A comparison of the high school graduation rates, grade retention, and high school achievement test scores of 338 participants and 257 matched nonparticipants from the 1995-1996 year of the Great Start Readiness Program, Michigan's publicly-funded preschool program for at risk 4-year-olds
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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6
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