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Missouri Preschool Project: Program evaluation report
Fuger, Kathryn Lu Magnuson, July 2003
Jefferson City: Missouri, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

An analysis of program quality and quality improvements in the Missouri Preschool Project (MPP), based on assessments of classroom quality and teacher child interactions and on administrator and teacher questionnaires

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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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Quality child care for infants and toddlers: Case studies of three community strategies
Paulsell, Diane, 2003
Washington, DC: Zero to Three.

A study of child care quality and it impact on infants and toddlers presenting a set of in-depth case studies of three types of collaborative infant-toddler child care initiatives located in four diverse communities, with findings collected during intensive three-day sight visits to the case study communities

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Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) report to Congress: Submitted January 2003
United States. Child Care Bureau, 2003
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

A report providing various state and federal information regarding the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)

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Responding to the mental health needs of infants, toddlers and families
United States. Head Start Bureau, 2003
(Early Head Start Program Strategies). Washington, DC: Early Head Start National Resource Center.

A report highlighting how 10 Early Head Start programs respond to the mental health needs of infants, toddlers, and their families

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Kansas and Missouri Early Head Start programs: Kansas City, Kansas, and Sedalia, Missouri
Paulsell, Diane, 2003
Zero to Three, 23(4), 17-26

An overview of two Early Head Start programs, Project EAGLE, in Kansas City, Kansas and the Children’s Therapy Center, in Sedalia, Missouri, by reviewing the programs’ partnerships with community child care providers, implementation successes and challenges of these partnerships, and lessons learned

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Early care and education partnerships: State actions and local lessons
Schilder, Diane, 2003
Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Center for Children and Families.

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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Child care: Recent state policy changes affecting the availability of assistance for low-income families
United States. General Accounting Office, 2003
(GAO-03-588). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

An examination of state policy developments affecting the availability of child care assistance for low-income families

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Barriers to child care providers' professional development
Gable, Sara, 2003
Child & Youth Care Forum, 32(3), 175-193

A comparative study of 647 Missouri center-based and family child care providers to describe their beliefs about pre-service training, education and compensation, and the barriers to accessing professional development due to current regulations

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Child care quality and workforce characteristics in four Midwestern states
Raikes, Helen, 2003
Omaha, NE: Gallup Organization.

A study of observed child care quality and its relation to hypothesized and potential indicators of quality, using a representative randomly selected sample of the provider population in four Midwestern states

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State administration of the Even Start Family Literacy Program: Structure, process and practices
United States. Department of Education. Office of the Under Secretary, 2003
(Doc No. 2003-14). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Under Secretary.

A description of all major areas of Even Start Family Literacy Program administration at the state level and the factors that facilitate or impede program improvement activities conducted by Even Start state coordinators

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Coming together for children with disabilities: State collaboration to support quality, inclusive child care
Mezey, Jennifer, 2003
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

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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The state of preschool: 2003 state preschool yearbook
Barnett, W. Steven, 2003
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research.

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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