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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

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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4-H Science Initiative: Youth Engagement, Attitudes, and Knowledge study
Mielke, Monica, April, 2012
Chevy Chase, MD: National 4-H Council.

An evaluation of 4-H Science, an initiative to increase 4-H science, engineering, and technology program offerings, that examines: 4-H Science program characteristics and activities; the science-related attitudes, activities, and skills of participants; and the relationship of participant characteristics to their science-related attitudes, activities, and skills, based on survey responses from 182 4-H Science educators and from 486 children attending 4-H Science programs

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Are state child care regulations meeting national oral health and nutritional standards?
Kim, Juhee, July/August 2012
Pediatric Dentistry, 34(4), 317-324

A study of state child care regulations in the United States in terms of their inclusion of selected oral health and nutrition standards related to early childhood dental cavities, based on a review of regulations in 50 states and the District of Columbia, from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education

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Bringing transmedia to expanded learning settings: Emerging practices
Agrawal, Nina, February, 2013
New York: Collaborative for Building After-School Systems.

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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Building Iowa's child care workforce for the 21st century: Results of the center and family Child Care Provider Wage Study
Shelley, Mack, 17 March, 2010
Des Moines: Iowa Workforce Development.

A study of the characteristics of the Iowa child care workforce, including education, training, income, benefits, and turnover, based on survey responses from 73 child care center directors, 390 registered family child care providers, and 131 unregistered family child care providers

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Championing success: Business organizations for early childhood investments
ReadyNation, 2013
Washington, DC: ReadyNation.

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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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

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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Downward slide: State child care assistance policies 2012
Schulman, Karen, 2012
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

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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Estimates of child care eligibility and receipt for fiscal year 2009
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, December, 2012
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

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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Evaluation of the 4-H Science Initiative: Year 2 implementation study
LaFleur, Jennifer Johnson, November, 2010
Chevy Chase, MD: National 4-H Council.

An evaluation of 4-H Science, an initiative to increase 4-H science, technology, engineering, and applied math program offerings, that examines state-level implementation of 4-H Science and characteristics of successful 4-H Science programs, based on interviews with state and county 4-H leaders

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Expanding access to Early Head Start: State initiatives for infants & toddlers at risk
Colvard, Jamie, September, 2012
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

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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Iowa Department of Education kindergarten literacy assessment preliminary report
Iowa. Department of Education, February, 2012
Des Moines: Iowa, Department of Education.

Findings from an assessment of Iowa children's literacy skills in kindergarten, including a comparison of the proficiency of children who did and did not attend the Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program, based on assessment data for 20,060 children who attended kindergarten in the 2011-2012 school year

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Parent experiences with state child care subsidy systems and their perceptions of choice and quality in care selected
Raikes, Helen, July, 2012
Early Education and Development, 23(4), 558-582

A study of parents' experiences using Child Care and Development Fund and other state-dispersed child care subsidies, reasons for choosing their current child care program, and perceptions of the quality of child care received from their current program, based on a survey of 659 parents receiving child care subsidies in 4 states

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Parents and the high cost of child care: 2012 report
Child Care Aware of America, 2012
Arlington, VA: Child Care Aware of America.

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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The state of preschool 2012: State preschool yearbook
Barnett, W. Steven, 2012
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research.

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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Support one, impact hundreds: Evaluation of a facilitated cohort model of online director training
National-Louis University. McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership, Fall 2012
Wheeling, IL: National-Louis University, McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership.

A study of perceptions related to personal, program, and community outcomes of participants in Aim4Excellence, an online training for early childhood program administrators with supplemental monthly meetings, based on interviews with 28 early childhood professionals who participated in one of three training cohorts in the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa

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Tools for student parent success: Varieties of campus child care
Boressoff, Todd, March, 2012
(C393). Washington, DC: Institute for Women's Policy Research.

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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Trends in child care center licensing regulations and policies for 2011
National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement, April, 2013
(Research Brief No. 1). Fairfax, VA: National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement

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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Trends in family child care home licensing requirements and policies for 2011
National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement, April, 2013
(Research Brief No. 2). Fairfax, VA: National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement

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 group child care home licensing regulations and policies for 2011
National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement, April, 2013
(Research Brief No. 3). Fairfax, VA: National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement

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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We can do better: Child Care Aware of America's ranking of state child care center regulations and oversight: 2013 update
Child Care Aware of America, 2013
Arlington, VA: Child Care Aware of America.

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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