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Encouraging positive parenting in early childhood: Lessons from a community change initiative
Walker, Karen E., January, 2012
Philadelphia: Public/Private Ventures.

An evaluation of Children's Futures, an early childhood initiative to improve the health, well-being, and school readiness of infants and toddlers in Trenton, New Jersey, that examines efforts to improve parenting practices through parent-child development center-based programming, based on administrative data, surveys of community residents, and interviews with and observations of center staff

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Seeds of Success: State Prekindergarten Initiatives 1998-1999
Blank, Helen, 1999
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund

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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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund

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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An analysis of U.S. newspaper coverage of early childhood education
McAdams, Katherine C.,
New York: Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. (No longer available as of December 7, 2012).

A study of the characteristics and themes of newspaper coverage of early childhood education and the role of newsrooms in shaping coverage, based on content analysis of a sample of newspapers, case studies of coverage in Atlanta, Georgia; Buffalo, New York; Los Angeles; Newark, New Jersey; and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and interviews with reporters

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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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Early childhood education: The sustainability of the benefits of preschool participation in Abbott districts
Fernandez, Norma, 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

A comparison of both the math and language arts test scores of populations of third graders who attended prekindergarten through third grade at the same school, who changed schools within the district after their prekindergarten year, or who did not attend prekindergarten, based on data collected from all third grade children in a single New Jersey Abbot district during the 2007-2008 school year

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Framing early childhood development: Strategic communications and public preferences
Gilliam, Jr., Franklin D., 2004
(Building State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Series No. 7). Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy.

An examination of approaches to conveying organizational information, and the role of communications methods in early childhood program planning, implementation, and management

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Assessing Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) investments in child care quality
Porter, Toni, 2002
New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum. (No longer accessible as of August 16, 2012)

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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A fragile foundation: State child care assistance policies
Schulman, Karen, 2001
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund. (No longer accessible as of December 7, 2012).

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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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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Teaching literacy in preschool: A case study of negotiating policy and practice
Rafter, Donna M., May 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

An examination of 2 teachers' beliefs and practices in response to a state policy to implement the Early Learning Assessment System (ELAS), an early literacy-based assessment system, from field notes of classroom behavior, audiotaping of classroom talk, as well as interviews and artifacts from 10 full day observations in 2 classrooms

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Municipal leadership for afterschool: Citywide approaches spreading across the country
Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, 2011
Washington, DC: Institute for Youth, Education, and Families.

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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Formative evaluation of Bark Park Place: Group school study report
Linebarger, Deborah L., 27 May, 2005
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, Children's Media Lab. (No longer accessible as of December 10, 2012).

An examination of the educational influence and appeal of Bark Park Place to young children, based on a sample of 67 children in preschool through second grade from 3 child care centers in Trenton, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Kansas City, Missouri

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Preschool teaching & learning expectations: Standards of quality
New Jersey. Department of Education, July, 2004
(PTM No. 1503.18). Trenton: New Jersey Department of Education.

State early learning standards

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Early care and education collaborative: Evaluation report
Harvard Family Research Project, 2002
Paper presented at a meeting of the Early Care and Education Collaborative, Kansas City, Missouri.

An evaluation of the design and implementation of strategic communications collaborative aimed at creating the public will and investments needed for quality and comprehensive state early care and education systems in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania

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Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States
Smith, Linda K., June, 2003
Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012)

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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The expanding role of the courts in educational policy: The preschool remedy and an adequate education
Superfine, Benjamin Michael, July 2009
Teachers College Record, 111(7), 1796-1833

A description of the educational research on the effectiveness of preschool used in 2 cases of school finance reform litigation, an analysis of the opportunities and pitfalls of the preschool remedy for inequity, and an examination of the implications of other similar remedies from a judicial consideration of preschool programs in New Jersey and North Carolina

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