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Shreya Mukhopadhyay; Rowan Hilty; Jennifer Cleveland; Kathryn Tout – Child Trends, 2024
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) contracted with Child Trends in 2022 to conduct an independent evaluation of Parent Aware to explore its effectiveness in supporting the state's children, families, and early care and education (ECE) workforce. As part of this evaluation, the team at Child Trends conducted an analysis of Rating and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Program Evaluation
Alison Hooper; Myae Han; Martha Buell; Rena Hallam – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
Onsite, individualized support for early care and education providers has emerged as an effective strategy for supporting quality improvement. We explored how Technical Assistants (TAs) working with family child care (FCC) educators in a voluntary Quality Rating and Improvement System perceive FCC quality and the challenges they face in supporting…
Descriptors: Child Care, Educational Quality, Barriers, Family Environment
Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority, 2022
This report presents key findings from the four years of the Quality Support Program (QSP). The QSP is an initiative of, and funded by, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education Early Childhood Education Quality Assurance and Regulatory Services Directorate (NSW DoE), involving the delivery by Australian Children's Education and Care…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Busch, Julian; Buchmüller, Thimo; Leyendecker, Birgit – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
Early childhood education [ECE] can foster the social-emotional adjustment and development of young refugee children. Still, the large numbers of newly arriving refugee families challenge the ECE capacities of host countries. In Germany, state authorities have subsidized flexible ECE programs for refugee children in response to this situation. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Refugees
Butcher, Jonathan; Schwalbach, Jude – Heritage Foundation, 2020
Research has demonstrated that federal Head Start centers, which provide preschool care to children from low-income families, have little or no long-term academic value for children. This "Backgrounder" adds to the evidence that Head Start has failed to achieve its objectives and should be sunset, not expanded, by demonstrating a…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Low Income Groups, Program Effectiveness
van Rhijn, Tricia; Maich, Kimberly; Lero, Donna S.; Irwin, Sharon Hope – Exceptionality Education International, 2019
Recent advances in policy development and professional practice in the field of early learning and child care have led to the expectation that it is appropriate and advantageous to include children with disabilities and extra support needs in early child care and learning programs. Yet, to date, evidence-based research on the effects of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs
Ackerman, Debra J. – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2021
Policymakers, child care providers, and parents face tradeoffs in determining how much to spend on child care, including how many hours to purchase, and the features of programs that might influence quality. Given these tradeoffs, it is useful to understand what constitutes quality, the cost of care features associated with quality, the effects of…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, At Risk Persons
Halle, Tamara; Banghart, Patti; Zaslow, Martha; Cook, Maya; Kane, Maggie; Bartlett, Jessica Dym; Redd, Zakia; Bamdad, Tiffany; Cox, Alexandra; Lloyd, Chrishana M. – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: This study examined the development and implementation of six Early Head Start Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CCPs), unique collaborations between EHS grantees and community-based child care partners that expand access to high-quality child care and comprehensive services for low-income infants, toddlers, and their families.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education
Broadstone, Meghan; Schilder, Diane – Education Development Center, Inc., 2019
In this brief, the authors examine potential differences between child care providers engaged in formal collaborations organized through state-level initiatives versus informal collaborations that are self-directed. The brief presents findings from an EDC study on child care collaboration conducted in Maryland and Vermont. In previous research,…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Agency Cooperation, Early Childhood Education
Siraj, Iram; Howard, Steven J.; Kingston, Denise; Neilsen-Hewett, Cathrine; Melhuish, Edward C.; de Rosnay, Marc – Australian Educational Researcher, 2019
This study examines associations between Australia's regulatory ratings of quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC)--the National Quality Standard (NQS)--and two research-based quality rating scales. The analytic sample consisted of 257 ECEC services across three Australian states. Results indicated (1) modest positive associations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Child Care
Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority, 2019
This document offers a summary of key findings and learnings from a preliminary evaluation of the Quality Support Program (QSP) by Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA). The QSP is an initiative of the NSW Department of Education Early Childhood Education Directorate (NSW DoE) involving the delivery by ACECQA of free…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
Kane, Maggie; Lowe, Claire; Tout, Kathryn; Warner-Richter, Mallory – Child Trends, 2018
For more than 20 years, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (United Way) has made high-quality early care and education a cornerstone priority of its investment strategy. United Way has also been a longtime champion of school readiness for the youngest children in southeastern Pennsylvania. In 1996, the organization joined…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, School Readiness
Keiyitho Omonuwa; Dianne Louise Maglaque; Rowan Hilty; Shreya Mukhopadhyay; Kylee Novak; Abigail Wulah; Jennifer Cleveland; Kathryn Tout – Child Trends, 2024
In March 2022, Child Trends contracted with the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to conduct an independent evaluation of Parent Aware, Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for early care and education (ECE) programs. The evaluation was passed by the Minnesota Legislature in 2021 and includes several…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, COVID-19, Pandemics
Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2021
The Mother Tongue Based Early Learning and Parents+ Programme ran from 2016 to 2021 (having been extended due the COVID-19 pandemic) in the state of Odisha, India -- a partnership of the state government's Department of Women and Child Development, Mission Shakti and the Bernard van Leer Foundation. As described in this report, the programme…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Early Childhood Education
Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2021
The present research study was undertaken to evaluate the Mother Tongue Based Early Learning and Parents+ (MTELP+) Programme which commenced in 2016 in the state of Odisha. The MTELP+ programme was implemented by Programme Management Unit (PMU), which was setup by Department of Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti, Government of Odisha…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Early Childhood Education