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Staff Training: What Difference Does It Make?
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Logue, Mary Ellin; And Others – Young Children, 1986
Points out that teachers with specialized training in early childhood education tend to focus on adult-directed cognitive development. Offers recommendations on how training programs can help teachers enhance the development of the whole child in more child-centered programs. (BB)
Descriptors: Behavior, Early Childhood Education, Higher Education, Program Improvement
National Accreditation: Why Do Some Programs Stall in Self-Study?
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Talley, Karen – Young Children, 1997
A survey examined why many early childhood programs either stalled or gave up during the self-study phase of the accreditation process. Significant factors cited by survey participants were lack of time and staff turnover/program instability. Based on these results, it was recommended that the early childhood community address the issues of…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation
Day Care Regulation: The Limits of Licensing.
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Class, Norris; Orton, Richard – Young Children, 1980
Explores four questions: What is child day care? Is day day-care regulation sufficiently different from 24-hour care licensing to require a whole new statutory base? Is facility licensure the most appropriate regulatory safeguard for all categories of day care? What other regulatory safeguards are needed? (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Certification, Child Welfare, Cost Effectiveness, Credentials
Creating a 21st Century Head Start. Executive Summary of the Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion.
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Young Children, 1994
Recommends that the Department of Health and Human Services ensure that every Head Start program can strive for excellence; expand the number of children served and the scope of services provided; and encourage community and school partnerships to ensure continuity of services, facilitate state and local collaboration, and link Head Start with…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Family Programs, Federal Programs
The Cold Reality of Worthy Wages: We Limited Size to Protect Quality and Staff Well-Being.
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Ratekin, Cindy – Young Children, 1996
Describes problems for a university-based child development laboratory of decreased university funding, overworked staff, and huge public demand. Explains that instead of conventional responses, the program was redesigned by decreasing enrollment and increasing length of the remaining program, thereby maintaining income levels and addressing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Educational Quality
The Challenge Ahead.
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Katz, Lilian G. – Young Children, 1994
Examines reasons for the differing perceptions of teachers and parents about the quality of early childhood programs. Suggests focusing energy on the daily quality of work with children because, when teachers provide quality experiences, parents notice and are more likely to express their support in the policy and political arena where early…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Financial Support
Changing Family Trends--Head Start Must Respond.
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Washington, Valora; Oyemade, Ura Jean – Young Children, 1985
Discusses four trends in family life which are particularly affecting Head Start and other programs serving low-income families (1) feminization of poverty, (2) teenage parenting, (3) increasing number of employed mothers, and (4) increasing challenges to attaining economic self-sufficiency. Explores the implications of these trends for Head Start…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comprehensive Programs, Early Parenthood, Economic Opportunities