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2010 Texas child care market rate survey: Final report A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the state of Texas in 2010 by provider type, full-day or part-day status, and age group, as well as an examination of providers that offer transportation and care at nontraditional hours and of provider sponsorship |
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Achieving a state of healthy weight: A national assessment of obesity prevention terminology in child care regulations 2010 A study of the extent to which state child care regulations meet standards related to obesity prevention in the areas of infant feeding, nutrition, and physical activity |
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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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Early daycare attendance increase the risk for respiratory infections and asthma of children A study of the associations between both the quantity and type of child care used and the occurrence of both respiratory tract infections and allergic symptoms in children, based on questionnaire responses of 3,766 parents In the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program in northeast Texas |
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The effects of an intensive shared book-reading intervention for preschool children at risk for vocabulary delay A study of effects of an intensive shared book-reading intervention on the vocabulary development of preschool children at risk for vocabulary delay, based on data from 125 children stratified by classroom and randomly assigned to either the Words of Oral Reading and Language Development (WORLD) intervention or typical practice |
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Ethnic differences in social-emotional development in preschool: The impact of teacher child relationships and classroom quality A study of differences in teachers' perceptions of prekindergarten children's behavior problems by ethnic group and gender, and a second study of the relationship between both classroom and teacher quality and children's behavior problems, based on a secondary analysis of two multi-state prekindergarten studies |
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Evaluation of the early childhood school readiness demonstration projects and School Readiness Certification System A mixed methods evaluation of the Texas Early Education Model, now called the Texas School Ready! project, a collaboration among public school, child care, and Head Start to improve the school readiness of at risk children, and of the School Readiness Certification System (SRCS), a quality rating system, that examines program management and implementation, financial management, student outcomes, and operation of SRCS |
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An experimental study evaluating professional development activities within a state funded pre-kindergarten program An experimental two-year study of the impacts of a state-mandated, research-based early care and education professional development model for use in child care, Head Start, and public prekindergarten classrooms on teachers' instructional practices and English and Spanish speaking children's language and literacy outcomes, based on data from over 200 teachers and their students in 11 communities in Texas |
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Fort Worth After School A comparison of the educational involvement, attitudes, and perceptions of parents whose children do and do not participate in Fort Worth After School, a publicly-funded program in Fort Worth, Texas, based on survey responses from 16,051 parents |
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Healthy & Ready to Learn: Examining the efficacy of an early approach to obesity prevention and school readiness A study of the effect of the Healthy & Ready to Learn intervention on both the physical growth and language development of 405 primarily Latino low-income children in two matched pairs of experimental and control Head Start centers |
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The impact of child care subsidy use on child care quality A study of the relationship between government subsidization and both selection of child care and quality of arrangements, based on data from parents of 456 3-year-olds in 14 cities in the United States |
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Making summer count: How summer programs can boost children's learning A review of research on summer learning loss and summer program effectiveness and costs, and an examination of school district efforts to develop summer learning programs, based on case studies and key informant interviews |
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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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Networks analysis of a regional ecosystem of afterschool programs A network analysis of organizations that provide both programmatic and financial support to after school programs, based on Dallas County program data that includes programmatic and financial sponsorship information for 525 after school programs and 25 support organizations in the Region-Communities-Families-Youth System in Dallas County, Texas |
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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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Pilot-testing CATCH Early Childhood: A preschool-based healthy nutrition and physical activity program A comparison of both children's fruit and vegetable consumption and their physical activity levels at Head Start centers before and after the implementation of the CATCH Early Childhood (CEC) program and a qualitative study of the program's implementation feasibility and acceptability, based on data collected from a convenience sample of 4 classrooms in Harris County, Texas |
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Quantifying phonological representation abilities in Spanish-speaking preschool children A study of preschool children's representation-related phonological processing abilities (RRPPA), a validation of psychometric properties of typical measures of RRPPA, and a description of Spanish phonological representation abilities of Spanish-English bilingual children, based on data from 129 Spanish-speaking preschool children in attendance at 24 center based preschool programs in Houston, Texas |
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Risk for poor performance on a language screening measure for bilingual preschoolers and kindergarteners A documentation of the risk for language impairment in Latino children with different levels of exposure to English and Spanish, with comparisons by language group, year of first English exposure, child age, and mother's education, based on data from 1,029 preschool- and kindergarten-age children and their parents in 12 schools across three school districts in Central Texas and Northern Utah |
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Searching for a norm in a system of absolutes: A case study of standards-based accountability reform in pre-kindergarten A case study of the implementation of a teacher- and administrator-designed assessment tool to measure preschool academic achievement, and a study of its alignment with Texas state standards for school-age academic achievement, based on interviews with 22 prekindergarten and elementary school stakeholders across an urban Texas school district |
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Sink or swim: Child care teachers' perceptions of entry training experiences A study of teachers' perceptions of their initial preservice and in-service training experiences, based on interviews with 18 child care teachers working in 6 for-profit centers in a suburban area of central Texas |
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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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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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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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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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We can do better: 2011 update: NACCRRA's ranking of state child care center regulations and oversight A ranking of state regulation and oversight of child care centers, based on an analysis of state child care licensing regulations |
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