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Family security: Supporting parents' employment and children's development
Boots, Shelley Waters, July, 2008
(New Safety Net Paper 3). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

A discussion of a policy approach to family security issues that integrates child development and parental employment concerns

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Supporting employers in Canada's ECEC sector: Employer models in Canada's early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector
Child Care Human Resources Sector Council, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Child Care Human Resources Sector Council.

A series of descriptions of early childhood education and care providers in Canada to illustrate different provider governance models

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Early childhood educator competencies: A literature review of current best practices, and a public input process on next steps for California
University of California, Berkeley. Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, February, 2008
Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

A review of states' practices for developing a set of competencies for early childhood educators and feedback from California's early care and education field on developing a set of educator competencies for California

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Designing subsidy systems to meet the needs of families: An overview of policy research findings
Adams, Gina, 2008
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.

A synthesis of strategies used by state and local agencies to support parents through the process of accessing and retaining child care subsidies

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Policies to promote family security: A comment on "Family security: Supporting parents' employment and children's development"
Waldfogel, Jane, July 2008
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

A commentary on a discussion of a policy approach to family security issues that integrates child development and parental employment concerns

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Staying afloat in tough times: What states are and aren't doing to promote family economic security
Fass, Sarah, August 2008
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty.

A discussion of states' policies that promote family economic security, including child care subsidies to increase work attachment and advancement

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Who's caring for our babies now?: Revisiting the 2005 profile of early care and education for children birth to three in North Carolina
Child Care Services Association, 2008
Chapel Hill, NC: Child Care Services Association.

A 2008 update of an examination of the child care system for infants and toddlers in North Carolina in 2005, including child care enrollment, quality, and subsidy use, and comparisons to the child care system for three- and four-year-old children

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Faith-based early care and education for at-risk children
Taylor, Susan B., January 2008
Zero to Three, 28(3), 29-32

A description of the efforts of one church located in an impoverished section of Washington, DC to respond to the needs of low-income families with infants and toddlers through early care and education for children, employment opportunities to the community

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Options for improving the military child care system
Zellman, Gail L., 2008
(OP-217-OSD). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

An assessment of the military child care system's success in terms of its U.S. Department of Defense goals and a discussion of options for transforming the system

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Broadening the base: Strengthening Mississippi's working families, businesses and economy through strong child care systems
Sivak, Edward, 2008
Jackson: Mississippi Economic Policy Center.

An overview of child care provision in Mississippi, with recommendations for increasing affordable child care for working families to increase their self-sufficiency

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Smarter reform: Moving beyond single-program solutions to an early care and education system in the United States
Stoney, Louise, 2008
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2(2), 53-68

A proposal for a range of investment strategies and institutional support commensurate with a high-quality early care and education system that takes into account the complexity of early care and education markets

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Child daycare policy in Japan: An examination of the program and its impacts
Palley, Howard A., October, 2008
Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 24(2), 165-178

An overview of child care policy reforms in Japan with regard to deregulation, increased privatization, and the roles of local and municipal governments in terms of both regulation and financing, with a discussion of the outcomes of those reforms in light of the intended results

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Preschool education and its lasting effects: Research and policy implications
Barnett, W. Steven, September 2008
Boulder: University of Colorado at Boulder, Education and the Public Interest Center.

A review of research on the relationship of preschool program participation, including participation in public prekindergarten and Head Start, to children's development

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United States early childhood profile
Columbia University. National Center for Children in Poverty, 2008
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty.

An overview of each state's policies to promote the health, nutrition, early care and education, and strength of families with young children

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Pathways from brain research to policy: Highlights from the National Summit on America's Children
United States. Congress. House, 01 March, 2008
Washington, DC: U.S. Congress, House of Representatives.

Highlights from a summit convened by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to use experts' knowledge of early childhood development to inform child policy

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Prepared statement of Elisabeth Chun, Executive Director, Hawaii Good Beginnings Alliance
Chun, Elisabeth, 2008
In Investing in early education: Paths to improving children's success: Hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives. 110th Cong., 2nd Sess.

Congressional testimony on early education services and their quality in Hawaii

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New developments in the Czech Republic
Rabusicova, Milada, September 2008
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 16(3), 386-390

An overview of the role of child care and early education policy, practice, and participation the culture and history of the Czech Republic since 1989

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How can public policy improve quality of early care and education?
Huston, Aletha C., June, 2008
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2(1), 1-14

An overview of policies for the provision of early care and education to children from birth through 5-years-old and public policy suggestions to improve its quality both in the United States and elsewhere

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Achieving a high return on early childhood investment: Scholarships for early childhood development
Rolnick, Arthur, 2008
In Big ideas for children: Investing in our nation's future (pp. 59-66). Washington, DC: First Focus.

A discussion of a policy proposal to increase at-risk children's participation in high-quality early childhood development programs through an endowed fund providing scholarships to families with at-risk children

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Little Britons: Financing childcare choice
Hakim, Catherine, 2008
London: Policy Exchange.

A discussion of parent child care preferences and current public child care programs and funding mechanisms in the United Kingdom, with policy proposals for reforming child care funding

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Early childhood Minnesota: Indicators and strategies for Minnesota's early childhood system, a joint report of Minnesota Build and Minnesota Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems
Moore, Christopher, December 2008
St. Paul, MN: Wilder Research Center.

A selection of early childhood indicators for Minnesota children, with strategies for increasing the numbers associated with each indicator

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Building a strong and equal partnership between childcare and early childhood education in Canada
Friendly, Martha, June, 2008
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2(1), 39-52

An overview of the legislation and the pilot implementation of integrated full-day early learning for 4- and 5-year-olds in 2007 in Ontario, Canada and related challenges that include the merging of public kindergarten with market-driven child care, financing, maintaining stability in paid child care for younger children, staffing issues, and the management of the integration

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Early childhood services in the OECD countries: Review of the literature and current policy in the early childhood field
Bennett, John, August 2008
(Innocenti Working Paper IWP-2008-01). Florence, Italy: UNICEF, Innocenti Research Centre.

A review and discussion of early childhood policies and services in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries

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Early care & education policy for low income families in Washington State: What we can learn from White Center/Boulevard Park
Pfingst, Lori, July, 2008
Seattle: University of Washington, Human Services Policy Center.

A discussion of the utilization of and barriers to accessing high-quality child care and early education services in the White Center/Boulevard Park area of Washington State, with recommendations for improving access to high-quality child care and early education services for low-income families

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New developments [Special section]
Lohmander, Maelis K., September 2008
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 16(3), 385-394

A special section of the journal European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, focusing on early education in the histories and cultures of the Czech Republic and Iceland

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