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- Child Care Assistance Policies 2005: States Fail to Make Up Lost Ground, Families Continue to Lack Critical Supports
By Helen Blank, Karen Schulman; September 2005
Description: This report shows that State child care assistance policies are largely unchanged since 2004. While there were positive developments in several States, a number of States put more restrictive policies...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34827 (100.00%)
- Child Care Quality In Different State Policy Contexts
By Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Elizabeth Rigby, Rebecca M Ryan; Fall 2007
Description: This journal article presents the results of a study that tested associations between the quality of child care and State child care policies. Contains 49 references. REQU0281 Child Care Journal of Policy...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34815 (100.00%)
- Research on No Child Left Behind Can Inform Reauthorization Process
By Society for Research in Child Development; 2007
Description: This brief presents research on No Child Left Behind to inform the reauthorization process. Data analysis for NCLB shows: (1) overall effectiveness is mostly neutral to positive, (2) NCLB may be raising...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34791 (100.00%)
- National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: State and Community Substudy, Final Report, Executive Summary
By Ann M Collins, J.Lee Kreader, Jean I Layzer; September 2007
Description: This executive summary presents findings from a study that was designed to examine how 17 States and 25 communities formulate and implement policies and programs to meet the child care needs of families...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35385 (100.00%)
- Caring for Children in Your Home in Minnesota: A Business Guide for Legal Unlicensed Providers
By Tom Copeland; 2000
Description: This business guide is intended for family child care providers in Minnesota. It presents basic record-keeping and tax rules. STMN0293 Caring Redleaf Business Series 2000 2000 Redleaf National Institute
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34778 (100.00%)
- NC Division of Child Development Report to the North Carolina Senate and House Appropriations Committees on Health and Human Services and the Fiscal Research Division Regarding Subsidized Child Care Reimbursement
By North Carolina Division of Child Development; March 2006
Description: This report examines whether there is a relationship between North Carolina’s Subsidized Child Care Program’s market rates and higher quality care. Factors are considered such as child care worker compensation...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34776 (100.00%)
- Children in Immigrant Families: The U.S. and 50 States: National Origins, Language, and Early Education
By Nancy A Denton, Donald J Hernandez, Suzanne E Macartney; April 2007
Description: This research brief draws on results from Census 2000 to examine children in immigrant families. In particular, the brief highlights the proportion, dispersion, national origins, language, and early education...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34762 (100.00%)
- What Is Working? What Is Not Working? Report on the Qualitative Study of the Tennessee Report Card and Star-Quality Program and Support System
By Bingham Graves Pope, Karen Homer, Joanna Hope Denny, Kay Ricci; November 2006
Description: This report presents findings from an evaluation conducted from October 2005 to May 2006 of the Tennessee Child Care Evaluation and Report Card Program (STARS) system. The evaluation consisted of interviews...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34758 (100.00%)
- The Implementation of the Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects
By Burt S Barnow, Pamela A Holcomb, Karin Martinson, Demetra Smith Nightingale, John Trutko; June 2007
Description: This report describes the design and implementation of 13 projects in the Partners for Fragile Families (PFF) demonstration program. The PFF program is intended to effect systems change, deliver effective...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34746 (100.00%)
- Departments of Education And Public Welfare Child Development and Early Learning 2007-2008 Executive Budget
By Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Office of Child Development and Early Learning; February 6, 2007
Description: This Microsoft PowerPoint presentation describes the activities of the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), which promotes opportunities for all children and families by...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34738 (100.00%)
- Improper Payments Information Act of 2002: Background, Implementation, and Assessment
By Garrett L Hatch, Virginia A McMurtry; September 10, 2007
Description: This report presents the background, implementation, and assessment of the Improper Payments Information Act (IPIA). The IPIA is intended to increase financial accountability in the Federal government,...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34719 (100.00%)
- Federal Investment in Children Projected to Weaken by 2017
By Urban Institute; September 10, 2007
Description: This document indicates that according to the Urban Institute study for the Partnership for America’s Economic Success, the Federal investment in children is likely to decline within the next decade. The...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34698 (100.00%)
- Effects of Overall Child Care Quality
By Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Spring 2002
Description: This 2002 table by Early Childhood Research & Practice presents sample descriptions, quality indices, measures, and results from six research studies on the effects of overall child care quality. Generally,...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34694 (100.00%)
- Giving Head Start a Fresh Start
By Douglas J Besharov, Caeli A Higney; June 29, 2007
Description: This paper argues that Head Start cannot be improved without an appreciation of its weaknesses (as well as strengths), followed by real reform. The fist-year findings from the Head Start Impact Study,...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34685 (100.00%)
- Fact Sheet: Percent of All Non-Parental Child Care Hours by Type of Child Care
By Human Services Policy Center; Winter 2007
Description: This fact sheet details the child care arrangements of children (aged birth through five years) and presents the proportion of all non-parental care hours spent in each of three types of care (i.e., center...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34677 (100.00%)
- Child Care: States Face Difficulties Enforcing Standards and Promoting Quality
By U.S. Government Accounting Office; November 1992
Description: This report describes State efforts to ensure and promote quality child care through enforcement of State standards and other activities. Licensing directors in the 50 States and the District of Columbia...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34672 (100.00%)
- How Small Children Make a Big Difference
By Alan Sinclair; January 2007
Description: This paper demonstrates how vital the early years are to good economics, social mobility, quality of life, and government plans for reform in the United Kingdom. Improved child well-being leads to improved...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34670 (100.00%)
- Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: FY2008 Appropriations
By Pamela Smith; July 6, 2007
Description: This report describes the President’s proposal for FY 2008 appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (L-HHS-ED), as submitted to Congress on...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34659 (100.00%)
- Research on early childhood education outcomes
By Public Policy Forum; July 2007
Description: This matrix presents research on early childhood education outcomes, which can be easily compared across studies. Society benefits from reduced crime costs and reduced welfare use. REQU0282 Research 2007...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34657 (100.00%)
- Early Childhood Indicators of Progress : Minnesota's Early Learning Standards Ages Three to Five, 2005
By Minnesota Department of Human Services; 2005
Description: These early learning standards provide a framework for understanding and communicating a common set of developmentally appropriate expectations for children, presented within a context of shared responsibility...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34633 (100.00%)