2012-05-24T14:09:31Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/toddlers.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB647.html May 1, 2012 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1188.html Feb 28, 2012 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP356.html Feb 28, 2012 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP364.html Feb 28, 2012 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9638.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

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

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9639.html Feb 28, 2012 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090428.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9218.html Feb 2, 2007 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070118.html Dec 31, 2006 Dec 31, 2006

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1241.html Dec 31, 2005 Dec 31, 2005

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

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP119.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

Employment of New Mothers and Child Care Choice

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040609.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040601.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

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

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040603.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1178.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

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

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030629.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1415.html Apr 29, 2002 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020044.html Dec 31, 2001 Dec 31, 2001

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

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020045.html Dec 31, 2001 Dec 31, 2001

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP928.html Dec 31, 2000 Dec 31, 2000

Anticipatory Guidance: What Information Do Parents Receive? What Information Do They Want?