Evaluation & Research
School Readiness Reporting Guide
Learning about Young Children’s Challenging Behavior and Impacts on Programs and Families
Social-emotional learning promotes successful regulation of social and emotional skills. Read this report from the National Center for Children in Poverty that highlights efforts of leaders in Virginia to understand the experiences of teachers with children who demonstrate challenging behavior in early care and education settings.
Leading by Exemplar: Case Studies of Head Start Programs
This detailed analysis from Bellweather Education Partners explores five high-performing Head Start programs from across the country. This work strives to understand the practices that led to the effectiveness of the programs in the study and also to understand how policymakers and the early childhood field can leverage the successes&
Provider Perceptions of Parent Aware: Minnesota’s Quality Rating and Improvement System
This report from Child Trends reveals that most child care programs participate in Minnesota’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) for financial incentives such as grants, scholarships for the children they serve, and access to free or low-cost training for providers. To encourage participation in QRIS, QRIS implementers can highlight these tangible benefits when recruiting providers.
Inequitable Access to Child Care Subsidies
Many low-income families qualify for child care assistance through the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). However, because of insufficient funding, few of these families receive the help they need. Read this report from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) that examines children’s access to CCDBG-funded child care by state, race, and ethnicity using publicly available data from fiscal year 2016.
Inequitable Access to Child Care Subsidies
Many low-income families qualify for child care assistance through the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). However, because of insufficient funding, few of these families receive the help they need. Read this report from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) that examines children’s access to CCDBG-funded child care by state, race, and ethnicity using publicly available data from fiscal year 2016.
Working Families Are Spending Big Money on Child Care
In the United States, parenthood can present significant financial challenges. This issue brief from the Center for American Progress examines recent data on child care payments and patterns that provide insight into family use of child care. Findings reveal that middle-class and low-income working families have less access to licensed child care.
Breaking the Silence on Early Child Care and Education Costs
A new, wide-ranging report from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment and the Economic Policy Institute, Breaking the Silence on Early Care and Education Costs identifies challenges to the early childhood profession in California. Specifically, the report reveals the root cause of California’s early care and education system problems (underfunding) and outlines a solution.
Incorporating Child Assessments into State Early Childhood Quality Improvement Initiatives
This brief 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.
Moving to Outcomes: Approaches to Incorporating Child Assessments into State Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
The purpose of this paper is to identify options for states to consider for incorporating child assessments into the design, implementation, and evaluation of their QRISs or other quality improvement (QI) efforts.