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Center ratios and group sizes: Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care research-based rationale An overview of research on the relationship of child-adult ratio and group size to child care center quality for infants and toddlers, with policy recommendations for ensuring that ratios and group sizes are small for infants and toddlers in child care centers |
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Cross system collaboration: A fresh look at working together: Increasing access to quality early learning: State examples A summary of a meeting of federal, state, and local leaders to discuss opportunities for coordinating multiple funding streams and collaborating to increase the quality of services for children and families |
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Provide access to training, education, and ongoing supports Arguments for state early education and care licensing, subsidy, and quality improvement policies to ensure access to specialized education, training, and support programs for service providers of infants and toddlers |
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Building on the promise: Profiles of state initiatives to build on Early Head Start: Iowa A summary of efforts in Iowa to expand and enhance Early Head Start services, based on an in-depth interview with a state program administrator |
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Family child care ratios and group sizes: Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care research-based rationale An overview of research on the relationship of child-adult ratio and group size to family child care quality for infants and toddlers, with policy recommendations for ensuring that ratios and group sizes are small for infants and toddlers in family child care |
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State issues and innovations in creating integrated early learning and development systems: A follow-up to Early childhood 2010: Innovations for the next generation [Executive summary] A summary of highlights from a meeting to improve collaboration among federal, state, and local partners in order to support state integrated early learning and development systems for children from birth through age 8 |
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Ensuring quality care for low-income babies: Contracting directly with providers to expand and improve infant and toddler care An analysis of states' use of contracts to provide subsidized child care for infants and toddlers and the potential for contracts to improve the quality or increase the supply of child care, based on interviews with policymakers and contracted providers |
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State issues and innovations in creating integrated early learning and development systems: A follow-up to Early childhood 2010: Innovations for the next generation Highlights from a meeting to improve collaboration among federal, state, and local partners in order to support state integrated early learning and development systems for children from birth through age 8 |
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Continuity of care: Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care research-based rationale An overview of research on the relationship of continuity of care to infant and toddler development, with policy recommendations for ensuring that infants and toddlers experience continuous relationships with caregivers |
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Build supply of quality care: Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care research-based rationale An overview of research on the importance of high-quality child care arrangements for healthy child development, with policy recommendations for increasing the supply of high-quality child care arrangements |
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Establish core competencies Arguments for state child care licensing and regulatory agencies to establish a standard set of minimum core competencies to be possessed by early childhood educators and caregivers |
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Stable, quality subsidy policy: Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care research-based rationale An overview of research on the importance of stable, high-quality child care arrangements for healthy child development, with policy recommendations for ensuring that state child care subsidy policies support stable, high-quality child care arrangements |
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Promote health and safety A discussion of the need to promote the health and safety of infants and toddlers in child care settings |
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Starting off right: Promoting child development from birth in state early care and education initiatives Descriptions of state strategies to improve infant and toddler child care quality |
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State CCDBG plans to promote opportunities for babies & toddlers in child care A synthesis of state plans for the improvement of low-income children's access to child care through the use of Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) expenditures, with a focus on the increase of family engagement, the development of a support network for providers, and the improvement of family's access to comprehensive services to promote children's health and development |
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Supporting growth and development of babies in child care: What does the research say? An overview of state policies that may positively affect infants' chances of receiving child care marked by high quality and continuity of relationships with caregivers |
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State CCDBG plans to promote opportunities for babies & toddlers in child care Highlights of a synthesis of state plans for the improvement of low-income children's access to child care through the use of Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) expenditures, with a focus on the increase of family engagement, the development of a support network for providers, and the improvement of family's access to comprehensive services to promote children's health and development |
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Building on the promise: Profiles of state initiatives to build on Early Head Start: Vermont A summary of efforts in Vermont to expand and enhance Early Head Start services, based on an in-depth interview with a state program administrator |
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Building on the promise: State initiatives to expand access to Early Head Start for young children and their families A study of state efforts to expand and enhance Early Head Start services, based on in-depth interviews with state program administrators |
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All together now: State experiences in using community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten A discussion of the findings from a survey of 29 states conducted by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), which examined the policies, opportunities, and challenges associated with including community based child care providers as part of the states' prekindergarten programs |
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All together now: State experiences in using community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten A discussion of the findings from a survey of 29 states that examines the policies, opportunities, and challenges associated with including community-based child care providers in states' prekindergarten programs |
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Starting off right: Promoting child development from birth in state early care and education initiatives [Executive summary] A summary of descriptions of state strategies to improve infant and toddler child care quality |
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Untapped potential?: How states contract directly with providers to shore up child care choices for low-income families A study of the use of contracting by child care state administrators in 24 statesto shore up child care choices for low-income families in 2002 |
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Comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding the reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Comments on the reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) |
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Unfinished agenda: Child care for low-income families since 1996: Implications for federal and state policy An in-depth study of the child care experiences of low-income parents, child care providers, and state child care systems since 1996 in Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Texas, and Washington |
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