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Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) report to Congress: Submitted January 2003 A report providing various state and federal information regarding the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) |
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Mississippi Child Care Development Fund: Program implementation evaluation and impact analysis An implementation and impact evaluation of Mississippi's system for distributing its federal Child Care and Development Fund funding |
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Assessing Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) investments in child care quality A catalog, directory, and report on the evaluations of 104 local and state child care quality improvement initiatives funded through the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) |
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Head Start programs: Participant characteristics, services, and funding A study of several factors of the Head Start program, including the number of participants, participants' characteristics, services provided, service delivery methods, federal and non-federal dollars received and spent, and other programs providing similar early childhood services |
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Strengthening Latino parental involvement forming community-based organizations/school partnership A discussion of the use of partnerships between schools and Latino community-based organizations to improve the involvement of Latino parents in children’s schooling |
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Early care and education partnerships: State actions and local lessons An inquiry into the nature and durability of partnerships between early childhood education and care providers and community organizations that support parents’ child care needs |
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Extended positive effects of a comprehensive Head Start-Follow Through program sequence on academic performance of rural disadvantaged students A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group |
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Child care survey results on funding and related policies in the Southern states Results from a survey of care funding and state-initiated policy changes related to funding shortages in the southern region of the United States |
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Unequal opportunities for preschoolers: Differing standards for licensed child care centers and state-funded prekindergarten programs A comparison of state licensing regulations for center-based child care and early education programs to state prekindergarten program standards, as well as to Head Start standards and military child care regulations, using a quality standards checklist |
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State child care assistance policies 2010: New federal funds help states weather the storm A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2009 and February 2010, 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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The effectiveness of a program to accelerate vocabulary development in kindergarten (VOCAB): Kindergarten final evaluation report An evaluation of the impact of Kindergarten PAVEd for Success (K-PAVE), a kindergarten vocabulary intervention, on children's expressive vocabulary, academic knowledge, and listening comprehension, and on classroom instruction, based on child assessment and classroom observation data collected from a sample of 33 school districts, 65 randomly assigned schools, 130 kindergarten classrooms (2 per school), and 1,296 children |
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Effectiveness of a program to accelerate vocabulary development in kindergarten (VOCAB): First grade follow-up impact report and exploratory analyses of kindergarten impacts An evaluation of the first grade impact of Kindergarten PAVEd for Success (K-PAVE), a kindergarten vocabulary intervention, on children's expressive vocabulary, academic knowledge, and passage comprehension, and an examination of differences in K-PAVE impact by subgroups, based on child assessment and classroom observation data collected from a sample of 65 randomly assigned schools, 130 kindergarten classrooms (2 per school), and 1,296 children |
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Child care health consultation initiatives: A status report A study profiling child care health consultant initiatives in the states and territories and examining factors associated with successfully implementing and sustaining these initiatives |
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Early Steps to School Success: Annual evaluation report An evaluation from August 2009 through June 2010 of Early Steps to School Success, a language and literacy development program for children from birth to age 5 and their families, that examines enrollment, retention, participant characteristics, community risk context, services delivered, and both child vocabulary and home literacy outcomes, based on data collected through the program's web-based system for tracking services, child characteristics, and outcomes indicators |
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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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Child health in child care: A multi-state survey of Head Start and non-Head Start child care directors A comparison of children’s health risks and access to services in various center-based child care settings, based on a survey of 2,753 child care directors from Head Start and non-Head Start centers in Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, and Vermont |
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Coming together for children with disabilities: State collaboration to support quality, inclusive child care A study of state policies which would provide special education and early intervention services to low-income children with disabilities in child care programs |
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State legislative investments in school-age children and youth A discussion of policy approaches towards the funding of programs for children outside of school time |
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Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States A national study of child care resource and referral agencies, including services provided to parents and providers, sources and levels of agency funding, and agency data collecting activities, based on a survey of state child care resource and referral agencies |
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Early education and child care directors' perspectives of children's health and well-being: A multi-state study A study of the practices, knowledge and perspectives of early child care directors on the health needs of children and families they serve in five states (Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, and Vermont) |
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State-based home visiting: Strengthening programs through state leadership A study of the characteristics of state-based home visiting programs, including their structure, financing, and design, and of state efforts to strengthen programs, based on a survey of state program staff and administrators and on a roundtable discussion |
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Evaluation of the 40-Hour Initial Pre-Service Training for Entry-Level Child Care Providers An evaluation of the 40-Hour Initial Pre-Service Training for Entry-Level Child Care Providers, an interactive online training, that examines participant experiences of and knowledge gains from the training and changes to resource and referral agency training and technical assistance offerings, based on pre- and posttest participant knowledge assessments, individual lesson analyses, participant focus groups, and resource and referral agency staff interviews |
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Status report on state implementation efforts: Southern regional action plan to improve the quality of early care and education A survey of actions taken by southern states to implement a regional action plan to improve child care and early education quality |
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The state of preschool: 2003 state preschool yearbook The first of a series of annual reviews of access, quality, and resources in state funded preschool programs for children aged 3 and 4, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, during the 2001-2002 program year |
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Status report on state implementation efforts: Action plan to improve access to child care assistance for low-income families in the South An overview of state-level actions to increase the access to and use of child care subsidies in 17 southeastern states and the District of Columbia |
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