Are state child care regulations meeting national oral health and nutritional standards?
A study of state child care regulations in the United States in terms of their inclusion of selected oral health and nutrition standards related to early childhood dental cavities, based on a review of regulations in 50 states and the District of Columbia, from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education
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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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Cost, quality and child outcomes in child care centers: Technical report
An outline of the structure and design of the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, with descriptive comparisons of the centers from which data was drawn, and a presentation of analytic study results
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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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Early childhood education leadership development compendium: A view of the current landscape
A study of the characteristics of programs that support leadership development in the early childhood education field, based on survey responses from 55 leadership development programs
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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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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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Evaluation of the 4-H Science Initiative: Year 2 implementation study
An evaluation of 4-H Science, an initiative to increase 4-H science, technology, engineering, and applied math program offerings, that examines state-level implementation of 4-H Science and characteristics of successful 4-H Science programs, based on interviews with state and county 4-H leaders
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Expanding access to Early Head Start: State initiatives for infants & toddlers at risk
A study of state efforts to expand and enhance Early Head Start services, based on interviews with Head Start-state collaboration administrators in 23 states
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From policy to practice: Implementation of water policies in child care centers in Connecticut
A documentation of the availability and accessibility of water in early care and education centers and correspondence with state and federal policy and accreditation standards in child care centers, based on data from one-day observations conducted in a random sample of 40 Child and Adult Care Food Program-participating preschool classrooms in Connecticut
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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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Predicting kindergarteners' response to early reading intervention: An examination of progress-monitoring measures
A study of the predictive validity of The Early Reading Intervention (ERI) curriculum-embedded mastery checks of phonemic and alphabetic/decoding performance and of individual Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) nonsense word fluency and phoneme segmentation fluency-- two forms of progress-monitoring measures, on reading outcomes of kindergarten students, and an examination of what combinations of both DIBELS and curriculum-embedded phonemic and alphabetic/decoding measures have the best predictive validity, based on data from 64 children in Connecticut and in Texas kindergartens
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A report of school readiness need and the costs to serve all 3- and 4-year-old children in 19 priority school districts
An estimate of the number of center-based school readiness program slots needed to serve all 3- and 4-year-old children in 19 high-priority school districts in Connecticut and of the cost of providing those slots, based on a survey of school readiness councils in the 19 districts
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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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Tools for student parent success: Varieties of campus child care
An examination of approaches to providing child care services at institutions of higher education, based on Internet searches, brief surveys of members of a campus child care organization listserv, and interviews with leaders in the field
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Trends in child care center licensing regulations and policies for 2011
An analysis of state child care center licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, child-adult ratios, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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Trends in family child care home licensing requirements and policies for 2011
An analysis of state family child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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Trends in group child care home licensing regulations and policies for 2011
An analysis of state group child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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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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