Does maternal employment following childbirth support or inhibit low-income children's long-term development?
An analysis of the relationship between maternal employment in the two years after childbearing and children's cognitive and behavioral functioning at age 7, with additional analyses of the moderating roles of race/ethnicity and child care type on that relationship, based on data from 444 urban, low-income, predominantly African American and Hispanic families from the Three-City Study, a longitudinal, multi-method analysis of the well-being of low income children and families in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago following welfare reform
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Estimates of child care eligibility and receipt for fiscal year 2009
An examination of children's eligibility for and receipt of federal child care subsidies under federal parameters and state-defined rules
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Downward slide: State child care assistance policies 2012
A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2011 and February 2012 and between 2001 and February 2012, including changes to income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent copayments, reimbursement rates, and assistance to parents searching for a job, based on a survey of child care administrators in each state and the District of Columbia
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Texas early childhood education needs assessment: Gaps between need and availability of early care and education
An estimation of the demand for and supply of early care and education by county in Texas in 2010, and with projections for 2015, based on analyses of administrative and secondary data
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Low-income families' selection of child care for their young children
An assessment of the relationship between child care type experienced by low income urban preschoolers and child characteristics, mother characteristics, city of residence, mother's psychological resources, and child care preferences, based on data from 802 children drawn from the first and second waves of the Three-City Study, a longitudinal, multi-method analysis of the well-being of low income children and families in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago following welfare reform
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Child care in the American South: Poverty, costs, and quality
A study of the relationship between the use of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) in southern states and family poverty, child care costs, and a variety of related socioeconomic variables, based on data from the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010, for 14 southern states
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Parents and the high cost of child care: 2012 report
A state-by-state study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, 4-year-old children, and school-age children in 2011, based on a national survey of state child care resource and referral networks and local child care resource and referral agencies
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Texas early childhood education needs assessment: Supply and quality of early care and education and school-age care
A study of the number and geographic distribution of early care and education and school-age child care providers in Texas in 2010, as well as of the number and distribution of programs meeting formal certification or accreditation quality standards, based on analyses of administrative and secondary data
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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states
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We can do better: Child Care Aware of America's ranking of state child care center regulations and oversight: 2013 update
A review of program requirements and oversight in state child care center licensing regulations, based on an analysis of state child care licensing regulations and a survey of child care licensing directors in each state, the District of Columbia, and at the United States Department of Defense
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The state of preschool 2012: State preschool yearbook
An annual review of access to, quality standards in, and resources devoted to state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia during the 2011-2012 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs
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2011 Texas child care market rate survey: Final report
A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the state of Texas in 2011 by provider type, full-day or part-day status, and age group, including information on transportation, nontraditional hours care, accreditation, quality rating status, and subsidized children, based on survey responses from 1,662 licensed child care centers, 469 licensed child care homes, and 735 registered child care homes
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An empirically-based statewide system for identifying quality pre-kindergarten programs
An identification of prekindergarten classrooms as promoting school readiness, based on data from over 8,000 children from 1,255 prekindergarten classrooms followed longitudinally for one year who participated in a statewide quality rating system that links information about prekindergarten programs with children's school readiness
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Championing success: Business organizations for early childhood investments
A study of the early childhood policy and advocacy efforts of formal business membership organizations, based on survey responses from 104 local chambers of commerce and from 121 state business roundtables, state chambers of commerce, and city chambers of commerce
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Effect of early educational intervention on younger siblings: The Infant Health and Development Program
A study of the relationship between participation of an older sibling in an early intervention program and the younger sibling's measures of intelligence, youth behavioral problems, and expectations of the future, based on data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), an eight-site randomized trial of three years of early education for premature low-birth-weight infants who were followed up through age 18, and 229 siblings of participating children born within 5 years of the IHDP study participants
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Predicting acceptance of diversity in pre-kindergarten classrooms
A study of the relationships between diversity-promoting practices in prekindergarten classrooms and classroom composition, process quality, and teacher characteristics, based on data from 692 publicly-supported prekindergarten classrooms across 11 states, from both the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the State-Wide Early Education Programs Study (SWEEP)
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The effects of Texas's targeted pre-kindergarten program on academic performance
A study of the relationship of participation in Texas's public prekindergarten program for at risk children to third grade academic outcomes, based on longitudinal administrative data for 682,749 children who were eligible for the prekindergarten program and attended kindergarten from 1994 through 1998
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The effects of Texas's targeted pre-kindergarten program on academic performance
A study of the relationship of participation in Texas's public prekindergarten program for at risk children to third grade academic outcomes, based on longitudinal administrative data for 682,749 children who were eligible for the prekindergarten program and attended kindergarten from 1994 through 1998
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Effects of a brief tiered language intervention for prekindergartners at risk
An examination of the impact of a language intervention for at risk children with whole-group and small-group instruction on the vocabulary skills of children, a study of the moderating relationship of initial language skills on those effects, as well as a study of teacher beliefs regarding oral language instruction, based on data from 39 early care and education programs in a large urban area in Texas
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Texas 21st Century Community Learning Centers: Interim evaluation report
An evaluation of Texas 21st Century Community Learning Centers that examines program operations, participation, and student achievement and that identifies innovative program practices, based on site coordinator surveys and interviews, site visits, staff surveys and focus groups, program observations, student surveys, and administrative data
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The impact of Educational First Steps on student success in Dallas ISD: An analysis to assess the impact of EFS on student success in Dallas ISD using measures of academic achievement and school progress: Final report
A study of the relationship of participation in child care centers affiliated with Educational First Steps (EFS), which supports quality improvement efforts in child care centers in North Texas, to children's academic performance, based on a comparison of Dallas Independent School District (ISD) administrative and assessment data for 3,557 EFS participants and 179,850 nonparticipants from 2003 through 2011
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Change in the early childhood and school age population in Texas, 2000 to 2010, and projected to 2015
An examination of the growth and socioeconomic characteristics of the population of children from birth through age 12 in Texas from 2000 through 2010, and with projections through 2015, based on analyses of data from the 2000 Census, 2010 Census, and 2010 American Community Survey
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