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Improving Quality for Child Care Centers in Greater Philadelphia: An Evaluation of Success by 6®. Final Report. Publication #2016-07
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Warner-Richter, Mallory; Lowe, Claire; Tout, Kathryn; Epstein, Dale; Li, Weilin – Child Trends, 2016
The Success By 6® (SB6) initiative is designed to support early care and education centers in improving and sustaining quality in Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). This SB6 evaluation report examines implementation and outcomes. The findings have implications for SB6 continous quality improvement process…
Descriptors: Success, Research Reports, Child Care Centers, Educational Improvement
Improving Quality for Child Care Centers in Greater Philadelphia: An Evaluation of Success by 6®. Executive Summary. Publication #2016-07A
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Warner-Richter, Mallory; Lowe, Claire; Tout, Kathryn; Epstein, Dale; Li, Weilin – Child Trends, 2016
The Success By 6® (SB6) initiative is designed to support early care and education centers in improving and sustaining quality in Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). The SB6 evaluation report examines implementation and outcomes. The findings have implications for SB6 continous quality improvement process…
Descriptors: Success, Research Reports, Child Care Centers, Educational Improvement
Local Social Capital through E-Mentoring: An Agenda for New Research
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O'Neill, D. Kevin – Learning, Media and Technology, 2011
This article synthesizes research on social capital, school outcomes, internet use, and volunteering to argue that e-mentoring--which is commonly practiced over long distances--could become a powerful way to build greater cohesiveness in local communities. Realizing this potential will require a larger-scale and more coordinated approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Design, Mentors, School Effectiveness
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Early Education Interventions on Cognitive and Social Development
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Camilli, Gregory; Vargas, Sadako; Ryan, Sharon; Barnett, W. Steven – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: There is much current interest in the impact of early childhood education programs on preschoolers and, in particular, on the magnitude of cognitive and affective gains. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: Because this new segment of public education requires significant funding, accurate descriptions are…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Program Design, Intervention, Preschool Education
Program Implementation: What Do We Know?
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Bowie, Lillian; Garrett, Sarah B.; Kinukawa, Akemi; McKinney, Krystal; Moore, Kristin A.; Redd, Zakia; Theokas, Christina; Wilson, Brooke – Child Trends, 2006
This report identifies and synthesizes what is known about specific program features for children and youth aged 6-17 that might be manipulated or regulated-components such as staff wages, group size, activities, and theoretical approach that make up the "how" of program implementation. The authors have culled information from the limited extant…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Children, After School Programs, Program Implementation
Encouraging Work, Reducing Poverty: The Impact of Work Incentive Programs.
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Berlin, Gordon L. – 2000
The Minnesota Family Investment Program, the Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project, and Milwaukee's New Hope Project are three antipoverty programs that were undertaken in the 1990s to end dependency on welfare by "making work pay." The impacts of all three programs were reviewed and compared to those of the Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis, Employed Women