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Whitaker, Anamarie A.; Dahlin, Melissa – Early Education and Development, 2023
Two-generation programs are designed to provide services to children and their parents, yet the extent to which parents use family well-being and self-sufficiency services is not widely known. We used data from the Head Start Impact Study to examine the effect of early care and education on parents' use of family services. Demographic…
Descriptors: Social Services, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Family Involvement
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Elise Chor – AERA Open, 2024
This study uses experimental and nationally representative Head Start Impact Study data to document the high incidence of multidomain household instability experienced by children eligible for the federal two-generation Head Start early childhood education program for low-income households. The study finds that household instability experienced…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Social Services, Federal Programs, Preschool Education
Margaret O'Brien Caughy; Dawn Y. Brinkley; Daniel Pacheco; Raul Rojas; Alicia Miao; Mariah M. Contreras; Margaret Tresch Owen; M. Ann Easterbrooks; Megan McClelland – Grantee Submission, 2022
Despite strong evidence self-regulation skills are critical for school readiness, there remains a dearth of longitudinal studies that describe developmental trajectories of self-regulation, particularly among low-resource and underrepresented populations such as Spanish-English dual-language learners. The present study examined individual…
Descriptors: Self Management, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Spanish Speaking
Jones, Christopher; Shah, Harshini; Xue, Yange – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Adults who provide care and education to young children have a great responsibility, as children's early environment and relationships have profound and lifelong effects. The Early Head Start conceptual framework recognizes that the characteristics of teachers and home visitors who deliver core Early Head Start services to children and families…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Home Visits
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
Emily Moiduddin; Elizabeth Cavadel – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
This report provides a project snapshot of the Study of Coaching Practices in Early Care and Education Settings (SCOPE) from 2016-2021. The primary goal in the SCOPE project was to learn more about the ways coaching is implemented to improve instructional practice in early care and education (ECE). SCOPE focused on coaching in center-based…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Coaching (Performance)
Elizabeth Cavadel; Nikki Aikens; Emily Moiduddin; Davis Straske; Hena Matthais; Elizabeth Blesson – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Coaching is a common approach to professional development and support for quality in early care and education (ECE) settings, and is an especially important part of professional development because it can be tailored to meet teachers' and family child care (FCC) providers' needs and can positively affect instructional practices, the quality of the…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Early Childhood Education, Professional Development