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Changing Cost of Child Care Research Series

Changing Cost of Child Care Research Series

This series of research briefs explores how the cost of early care and education (ECE) arrangements has increased since the mid-1990s. This series finds that, while families are now less likely to pay for ECE arrangements out of pocket than they were in the past, those that do make out-of-pocket expenditures are paying more for these services tha
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Early Care and Education Arrangements of Children

Early Care and Education Arrangements of Children under Age Five

Children under age five are about as likely to participate in nonparental care arrangements as they were in the mid-1990s. Children in nonparental care are now more likely to participate in center programs and less likely to receive care from family child care providers. Children in families with income both above and below 200 percent of th
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Head Start Children and Families Experiencing

Head Start Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness: Trends, Characteristics, and Program Services

This research brief presents findings on the characteristics of Head Start children and families that experienced homelessness, as well as services Head Start programs reported providing to these vulnerable children and families, using data from the 2009 cohort of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey. Trends in the percentages of Hea
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Well-Being of Young Children Experiencing

Well-Being of Young Children after Experiencing Homelessness

New analysis of data from HUD's Family Options Study shows that twenty months after staying in an emergency shelter with their families, young children scored worse in pre-reading skills and had higher rates of overall behavior problems and early development delays compared to national norms for children their age. However, they displayed only sma
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Research on Early Childhood Homelessness

Research on Early Childhood Homelessness

This infographic shows that, in the United States, infancy is the age at which individuals are most likely to enter shelter or transitional housing, followed by ages one to five, and homelessness during pregnancy and in the early years is harmful to children’s development. Given the research showing the importance of addressing early childhood h
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The Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Large Public

The Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Large Public Early Care and Education Programs

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Head Start: What Do We Know About What Works?

Head Start: What Do We Know About What Works?

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Head Start: What Do We Know About What Works? Sharon M. McGroder Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and EvaluationU.S. Department of Health and Human Services March 29, 1990 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/headstar.pdf (24 PDF pages)
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An Evaluability Assessment of Child Care Options

An Evaluability Assessment of Child Care Options for Work-Welfare Programs

MAXIMUS, Inc. April 1988 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-85-0004 between HHS's Office of Social Services Policy (now the Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy) and MAXIMUS, Inc. For additional information about this subject, you can visit the ASPE home page at http://aspe.hhs.gov. The Project Officer was Sha
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Trends in the Use of Early Care and Education,

Trends in the Use of Early Care and Education, 1995-2011: Descriptive Analysis of Child Care Arrangements from National Survey Data

The authors would like to acknowledge our Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Ajay Chaudry, for his leadership and vision in the development of this report. The authors would also like to acknowledge Barbara Broman, Ann McCormick, Martha Moorehouse, and Pam Winston for their direction and reviews.
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Exploring

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Exploring the evidence for Thresholds of School Readiness Technical Report

This study represents a multi-method approach to examining the evidence for thresholds in the association between children's school readiness and subsequent academic, social and emotional outcomes, both within and across domains. In addition to a literature review, multiple analytical methods were applied to two national data sets to examine these
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Project

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Project Overview

This research brief summarizes a multi-method study examining the evidence for thresholds in association between children's school readiness and subsequent academic, social and emotional outcomes, both within and across domains. In addition to a literature review, multiple analytical methods were applied to two national data sets to examine these
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes:

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Contemplating "Threshholds" for School Readiness

This research brief summarizes findings related to 'thresholds' of school readiness from a larger ASPE study on this topic called 'In the Running for Successful Outcomes.' The In the Running project's findings contribute to an emerging picture of school readiness skills and developmental trajectories. While no children appeared to be primed for ac
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Examining

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Examining the Predictive Power of Children's School Readiness Skills

This research brief explores the relative strength of association between skills at school entry and later developmental outcomes both within and across domains of development. It highlights findings from a project aimed at providing an empirical exploration of differential prediction of outcomes in later elementary school from school entry skills
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Proceedings from a Working Meeting on School

Proceedings from a Working Meeting on School Readiness Research: Guiding the Synthesis of Early Childhood Research

In recent years, the Federal government has made increasingly significant investments in early childhood care and education research. Much of this work has been aimed at exploring the effectiveness of different programs, targeted interventions, curricula, and specific teaching practices in narrowing the school readiness gap that exists between dis
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Head Start: What Do We Know About What Works?

Head Start: What Do We Know About What Works?

Head Start programs provide comprehensive child development, educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to predominantly low income preschool children and their families. In recognition of the important role parents play in their child's development, Head Start programs are required to provide for the direct participation of paren
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An Evaluability Assessment of Child Care Options

An Evaluability Assessment of Child Care Options for Work-Welfare Programs

The final report (Volume I) presents the results of an evaluability assessment of child care options for work-welfare programs. The project examined current work-welfare programs in selected states across the country and explored the evaluative issues regarding the role of child care in these programs. Volume II (State Discussion Summaries, Head S
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Strengthening Head Start: What the Evidence Shows

Strengthening Head Start: What the Evidence Shows

This paper describes the limited educational progress for children in Head Start and the problems resulting from a fragmented approach to early childhood programs and services. The paper also presents evidence from early childhood research and documents state efforts that have successfully addressed these problems. Finally, the paper explains the
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Project

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Project Overview

ASPE Research Brief Exploring the Evidence for Thresholds of School Readines By: Tamara G. Halle, Elizabeth C. Hair, Margaret Buchinal, Rachel Anderson, and Martha Zaslow Printer friendly version in PDF format (8 pages)
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes:

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Contemplating "Threshholds" for School Readiness

ASPE Research Brief By: Tamara G. Halle, Elizabeth C. Hair, Margaret Buchinal, Rachel Anderson, and Martha Zaslow Printer friendly version in PDF format (8 pages)
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Examining

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Examining the Predictive Power of Children's School Readiness Skills

ASPE Research Brief By: Tamara G. Halle, Elizabeth C. Hair, Margaret Buchinal, Rachel Anderson, and Martha Zaslow Printer friendly version in PDF format (8 pages)

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