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Peterangelo, Joe; Carlson, Virginia; Henken, Rob – Public Policy Forum, 2014
The authors' recent research has revealed that most afterschool programs in Milwaukee County have received relatively low ratings, and that their biggest hurdle to improving their scores often involved the educational qualifications of program staff. In light of the potential consequences of that finding--which include the possibility that the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Program Evaluation, Educational Quality, After School Programs
Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2021
Second Substitute Senate Bill 5903 (2019) directed the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to contract with an organization providing coaching services to early achievers program participants, i.e., Child Care Aware of Washington (CCA WA), to provide statewide Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMH-C) to Early…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Early Intervention, Infants, Toddlers
Soli, Margaret; Daily, Sarah; Maxwell, Kelly; Bultinck, Erin; Rothenberg, Laura; Ponder, Karen – Child Trends, 2016
In 2007 the Colorado General Assembly established the Early Childhood Councils (HB07-1062) and charged them with "increasing and sustaining the quality, accessibility, capacity, and affordability of early childhood services for children five years of age or younger and their parents." In March 2016 Child Trends, a non-profit research and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Family Programs, Health Programs
Mueller, Betsy; Peterangelo, Joe; Henken, Rob – Public Policy Forum, 2016
The State of Wisconsin's YoungStar system was created by the Legislature and Governor in 2010 to "drive quality improvement in child care throughout the state." YoungStar uses a five-star system to rate child care providers based on several measures of quality, including staff education levels, learning environment, business methods, and…
Descriptors: Child Care, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Outcome Measures
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Share, Michelle; Kerrins, Liz – Child Care in Practice, 2013
Recently in Ireland attention has been placed on the importance of parental involvement in early childhood care and education settings as seen in the Síolta Quality Standards and Aistear Curriculum Framework. Yet there is little Irish empirical evidence on parental involvement in childcare settings; on the involvement models being used, or on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Child Care Centers, Parent Role
Sirinides, Phil; Fantuzzo, John; LeBoeuf, Whitney; Barghaus, Katie; Fink, Ryan – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2015
High-quality care in the earliest years of life has been shown to relate to positive developmental outcomes for children, including improved early academic skills, social-emotional competencies, and cognitive functioning. Unfortunately, the early care experiences of many children are not always high quality; rather, research suggests that…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Research Reports, Educational Quality, Quality Control