Better outcomes for all: Promoting partnerships between Head Start and state pre-k
A study examining how Head Start and state-funded prekindergarten programs can coordinate service delivery, based on in-depth interviews with program providers, state prekindergarten program directors, and state Head Start collaboration coordinators
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Child Care Health Consultation demonstration program: Phase IV final report
An evaluation of the Child Care Health Consultation (CCHC) program, Oregon's initiative to improve children's health and safety in child care programs, from July 2006 through June 2007
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Child Care Health Consultation demonstration program: Phase IV final report: Project summaries
Site-based highlights of the implementation of Phase IV of the Child Care Health Consultation (CCHC) program in Oregon from July 2006 through June 2007
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Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers
An examination of statewide efforts to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions
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Lane County Child Care Enhancement Project: Year 2 evaluation report
Second year results from a three-year process and random-assignment outcome evaluation of the Lane County, Oregon, Child Care Enhancement Project--a program to lower families' child care expenses, increase and stabilize child care wages, and improve child care quality through child care subsidies, child care worker wage enhancements, and mentoring and technical assistance--based on program reports, provider and director surveys, parent surveys and interviews, and observations of child care settings
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Links between behavioral regulation and preschoolers' literacy, vocabulary, and math skills
A longitudinal study of the effect of preschool students' behavioral regulation skills, including paying attention, following instructions, and inhibiting inappropriate action, on their emergent literacy, math skills, and vocabulary, based on a sample of 310 preschool children
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Parents and the high price of child care: 2007 update
A study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children, 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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Participation and employment dynamics of child care subsidy users in rural and urban Oregon
An examination of rural-urban differences in the use of public programs designed to support working low-income families, such as child care subsidies and food stamps, based on a comparison of demographic characteristics, employment stability, participation in work support programs, and other data
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Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes
Findings from a study examining current child care market rate survey methods, practices, and policies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, territories, and tribes, including descriptions of challenges faced by jurisdictions in conducting surveys, and methods of providing study data
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Screening for hearing loss in early childhood programs
An examination of the feasibility of testing for hearing loss in migrant, American Indina, and Early Head Start children and an investigation into the effectiveness of implementing a hearing loss testing program within Early Head Start programs
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Second error rate pilot report
A study of a methodology for measuring improper payments in states' administration of the Child Care and Development Fund
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The state of preschool 2007: State preschool yearbook
An annual review of access, quality, and resources in state-funded preschool programs for children ages three and four, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, during the 2006-2007 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs
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Supplemental educational services and implementation challenges in the northwest region states
An exploration of the access of students in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington to supplemental education programs as required by the No Child Left Behind Act, including a discussion of challenges encountered in the implementation of such programs
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