Estimating sustainability and comprehensiveness in the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Final report
United States. Employment and Training Administration. Office of Apprenticeship, Training, Employer and Labor Services, 30 April, 2003
Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012)
An analysis of participating states' post-grant prospects for sustaining and broadening programs funded under the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce
Reports & Papers
Evaluating the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Child-care worker apprenticeships in the Western states: Final report
United States. Employment and Training Administration. Office of Apprenticeship, Training, Employer and Labor Services, 30 April, 2003
Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates.
A process evaluation of the first two rounds of the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce, in Western states, based on site visits
Reports & Papers
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
Reports & Papers
Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Infant Behavior & Development, 26(3), 345-370
A study of the relationship between early child care experiences in a child's first 3 years of life and mother-child interaction through the child's transition to school
Reports & Papers
Early learning and care survey results: School districts find innovative ways to expand programs
Brown, Jen, 2003
Seattle, WA: Economic Opportunity Institute.
An overview of a survey of the involvement in early education and kindergarten models and policies in Washington State by individual school districts
Reports & Papers
The NICHD Study of Early Child Care: Contexts of development and developmental outcomes over the first seven years of life
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
In J. Brooks-Gunn, A.S. Fuligni, & L.J. Berlin (Eds.), Early child development in the 21st century (pp. 181-201). New York: Teachers College Press
A description of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care’s examination of the relationship between child care and children's development over the first seven years of life
Reports & Papers