Special education preschool: Perceptions of the parent participation and education component
A study of parent and provider perceptions of parent participation in the education component of Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) and a second study of relationships between growth in language development, motor skills, social skills, and parent participation in ECSE programs and services, based on interviews with 24 parents and early intervention professionals and an analysis of individual educational plans of 120 children
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Seeds of Success: State Prekindergarten Initiatives 1998-1999
A study of prekindergarten initiatives across different states in order to assess the quality of prekindergarten, the accessibility of prekindergarten and the way in which prekindergarten initiatives are integrated with other early childhood programs.
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21st Century Community Learning Centers state evaluation: Mid-year implementation report: July 2003-February 2004
An implementation evaluation of Michigan's 21st Community Learning Centers, a federally-funded out-of-school time program, based on program director surveys
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21st Century Community Learning Centers summer expansion grant: Final evaluation report
Findings from an evaluation of a grant program to extend 21st Century Community Learning Centers services in Michigan during the summer months of 2011 that examine program implementation, participation, academic performance, and youth development and socioemotional functioning, based on administrative data and student and administrator surveys
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21st Century Community Learning Centers state evaluation: Implementation report: January-June 2003
An implementation evaluation of Michigan's first 21st Community Learning Centers, a federally-funded out-of-school time program, based on program documents and administrator surveys and interviews
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Points of light: Third year report of the Michigan School Readiness Program evaluation
Findings from the third year of a longitudinal study on children participating in the Michigan School Readiness Program (MSRP)
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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
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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Head Start-child care partnership study
An evaluation the establishment of Head Start collaboration offices designed to hasten cooperation among Head Start programs via the case study method
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Trends in child care center licensing regulations and policies for 2011
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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Making the most of after-school time: Ten case studies of school-based after-school programs
A report profiling high quality school-based after-school programs from ten different states
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Trends in family child care home licensing requirements and policies for 2011
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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Touch your toes! Developing a direct measure of behavioral regulation in early childhood
An account of the development and testing of the Head-to-Toes Task, a measure of behavioral regulation in early childhood
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21st Century Community Learning Centers state evaluation report: Implementation of the state evaluation/baseline data
A study of the implementation of a two-part Michigan state evaluation of the 21st Community Learning Centers, a federally-funded out-of-school time program
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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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Realizing the potential: Final report of the Michigan Full-Day Preschool Program Comparison Study
An analysis of the Michigan Full-Day Preschool Program comparison study
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A fragile foundation: State child care assistance policies
A report on state-level child care assistance policies and changes that have occurred between 1995 and 2001, examining the impact of policies on families' access to care and child care choices.
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An interdisciplinary evaluation report of Michigan's Childcare Expulsion Prevention (CCEP) initiative
An evaluation of Child Care Expulsion Prevention, a Michigan early childhood mental health consultation program, that examines child, family, and child care provider and program outcomes, and fidelity of the consultation process, based on a longitudinal outcome study, a quasi-experimental outcome study, and case studies
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Early learning left out: An examination in public investments in education and development by child age
A report comparing levels of public investment in early learning to investment in education for other age groups across 12 states
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Trends in group child care home licensing regulations and policies for 2011
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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Benefits, costs, and explanation of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
A paper on the long-term effects and cost benefits of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
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Voluntary participation and parents' reasons for enrollment in after-school programs: Contributions of race/ethnicity, program quality, and program policies
An investigation into the influence of perceived program quality on families' decisions to enroll children in after school programs, and an exploration of the association between families' race and their enrollment decisions after controlling for program quality, based on a sample of 2,256 children from 117 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) programs and 1,849 parents from 99 21st CCLC programs during the 2005-2006 school year
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Michigan 21st Century Community Learning Centers evaluation: 2006-07 annual report
Findings from an evaluation of 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) programs during the 2006-2007 school year
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Cost savings of school readiness per additional at-risk child in Detroit and Michigan
An examination of cost savings to Detroit and Michigan of preparing an at risk child for school through early childhood education, based on school graduation and expenditure data, poverty and crime rates, and other data for Detroit and Michigan, and on estimates of the measured influence of early childhood education programs from research literature
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Analyzing social experiments as implemented: A reexamination of the evidence from the High Scope Perry Preschool Program
A reanalysis of data from the Perry Preschool Project, a longitudinal experimental study of the impact of a preschool education and home visitation intervention on over 715 measured outcome variables of disadvantaged children in preschool, based on data from participants from age 3 through age 40
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The High/Scope Perry Preschool Program: Cost-benefit analysis using data from the age-40 followup
A cost-benefit analysis of long-term effects of preschool attendance, comparing program cost with treatment impact on the educational attainment, income, criminal activity, and welfare receipt of participants in the age 40 follow-up study of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
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