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How Would Programs Rate Under California’s Proposed Quality Rating and Improvement System? Evidence from Statewide and County Data on Early Care and Education Program Quality — May 1, 2012

This briefing uses existing statewide and county data to provide California early care and education quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) planners and other stakeholders with important information about some fundamentals of the proposed QRIS rating scheme that could inform California's QRIS design in advance of field-based pilot efforts.

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• Education and the Arts Research Area

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Improving the Professional Development System for California's Early Child Education Workforce — Feb 28, 2012

California has taken steps to implement components of a comprehensive professional development system for its early child education workforce. However, further advances are needed and more information is required to identify possible inefficiencies in the current system.

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• Education and the Arts Research Area

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The Use of Early Care and Education by California Families — Feb 28, 2012

Uses two sources of representative data, the 2005 National Household Education Survey and the 2007 RAND California Preschool Study, to describe child care and early learning arrangements for the approximately 2.8 million California children ages 0 to 5 who are younger than the age at which they would enter kindergarten.

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• Education and the Arts Research Area

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Moving to Outcomes: Approaches to Incorporating Child Assessments into State Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems — Feb 28, 2012

Better child outcomes are the ultimate goal of early care and education (ECE) quality improvement (QI) efforts, but assessing these outcomes is difficult and rarely done. This study identifies five strategies for incorporating child assessments into the design, implementation, and evaluation of QI initiatives such as quality rating and improvement systems. The study assesses the merits of each strategy and offers guidance for its use.

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• Education and the Arts Research Area

RESEARCH BRIEF

Advancing the Professional Development System for California's Early Care and Education Workforce — Feb 28, 2012

Offers recommendations for improving the education and training of California's early childhood workforce.

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• Education and the Arts Research Area

RESEARCH BRIEF

Incorporating Child Assessments into State Early Childhood Quality Improvement Initiatives — Feb 28, 2012

Identifies five strategies for incorporating child assessments into the design, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives designed to raise the quality of care in early care and education settings such as quality rating and improvement systems.

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• Children and Families Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Meeting Family and Military Needs Through Military Child Care — Dec 31, 2008

This article summarizes results from a child care survey of military families conducted by the RAND Corporation in 2004 and draws policy implications for the military child care system.

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RESEARCH BRIEF

Need for High-Quality Child Care Affects Military Readiness and Retention — Feb 2, 2007

This research brief presents focus group and survey results that point to several options for improving the Department of Defense's approach to addressing the child-care needs of military families.

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• National Security Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Crecimiento En Peso Y Longitud De Los Ninos Menores De Dos Anos Atendidos En El IMSS =: [Growth in weight and height in children less than two years old in the IMSS] — Dec 31, 2006

Children's growth at two years of age at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social shows a curve that is lower than that of the reference population recommended by the World Health Organization as an international standard.

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• Children and Families Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey — Dec 31, 2005

This paper describes the development and implementation of the multilevel sample design for the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (LAFANS).

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• Children and Families Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Employment of New Mothers and Child Care Choice — Dec 31, 2003

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Continuity of Primary Care Clinician in Early Childhood — Dec 31, 2003

Anticipatory guidance is the foundation of health supervision visits and may be most effective when there is a continuous relationship between the pediatric provider and the parent. Only half of young children in the United States are reported to have a specific clinician for well-child care.

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• Children and Families Research Area

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Overview of the Content of Health Supervision for Young Children: Reports from Parents and Pediatricians — Dec 31, 2003

Parents and pediatricians report high rates of discussion on many topics that are critical to healthy development in the first years of life.

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• Children and Families Research Area

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Routine Assessment of Family and Community Health Risks: Parent Views and What They Receive — Dec 31, 2003

Examine the prevalence of parent-provider discussions of family and community health risks during well-child visits and the gaps between which issues are discussed and which issues parents would like to discuss.

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Meeting Decision Makers’ Needs for Evidence-Based Information on Child and Family Policy — Dec 31, 2002

Explains the rationale behind the Promising Practices Network on Children, Families and Outcomes, discusses its content, and looks at its possible future direction.

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WIC Eligibility and Participation — Dec 31, 2002

The authors examine WIC eligibility and participation using the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and state-level administrative data.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

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Examining the Cost of Military Child Care — Apr 29, 2002

This book presents estimates of the cost of providing care in DoD-operated Child Development Centers(CDCs), Family Child Care (FCC) homes, and centers operated by outside providers under contract to the DoD.

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Access to Health Care for Young Children in the United States — Dec 31, 2001

The health care needs of children, and of young children in particular, reflect their underlying age-specific health needs.

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• Children and Families Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Resources Devoted to Child Development By Families and Society — Dec 31, 2001

This chapter in a volume of papers focused on the lives of families with very young children documents the allocation of resources to child development made by parents, government, and others during this critical period of development.

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• Children and Families Research Area

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Anticipatory Guidance: What Information Do Parents Receive? What Information Do They Want? — Dec 31, 2000

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