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Direct linkWarner-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: Child Care Centers, Success, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
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
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
Moore, Kristin Anderson – Child Trends, 2009
Participants in a recent Child Trends Roundtable explored how evidence-based programs might be integrated into community initiatives to strengthen outcomes for children. Participants discussed both practice and policy implications for this approach. Those attending agreed that it was important for programs and initiatives to be based on research,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Evidence, Youth Programs, Community Programs
Tout, Kathryn; Zaslow, Martha; Halle, Tamara; Forry, Nicole – Child Trends, 2009
Since the first child care Quality Rating System (QRS) was implemented in Oklahoma 11 years ago (in 1998), 16 additional statewide systems have been launched and numerous states are piloting or developing a QRS (Zaslow, Tout, & Martinez-Beck, forthcoming). As QRS stakeholders across the nation look ahead to the next decade, it is important to take…
Descriptors: Human Services, Cooperation, National Organizations, Public Agencies
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
Forry, Nicole; Vick, Jessica; Halle, Tamara – Child Trends, 2009
Measures of quality are now in widespread use across states as part of quality improvement initiatives. For example, many states are currently using global measures of quality that were first developed for research and practice purposes (such as the Environmental Rating Scales) in their Quality Rating Systems (QRSs). Although global quality…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities, Rating Scales
