Brief

Many states are designing or expanding quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) to include school-age programs. This brief provides an overview of key considerations for developing effective strategies to including school-age programs in QRIS.

This fact sheet gives an overview of the findings of “Parent Priorities in
Selecting Early Care and Education Programs: Implications for Minnesota’s
Quality Rating and Improvement System.”  It provides recomendations about how QRIS can give parents culturally relevent information about charactersitics of programs that are of interest to them.

MELF Cultural Relevance Study Fact Sheet Feb 20 2010-2.pdf

This Brief uses data to inform development of a statewide child care rating system, which could build on basic licensing standards to assist parents in selecting quality child care.

A brief discussion of state strategies--such as the development of quality rating systems and private-sector partnerships--to improve their systems of early education and care services

Provides a brief for policy-makers details a QRIS and provides an accout of how quality has improved overtime.

Provides a summary of the Year 1 findings of the Parent Aware evaluation.

This brief focuses on the potential of QRIS to be a framework to reform and unify the early care and education sections into a coherent early care and education system.

This brief explores areas for refining, extending, and developing measures of quality for early childhood education and school-age care settings. It focuses on identifying the practices and aspects of the environment that support specific domains of children’s school readiness as well as two specific contexts of development (families and culture).

This brief reviews previous research regarding the importance of identifying the purposes of measurement, distinguishes among different purposes for conducting assessments ofquality in early childhood settings, discusses the need for precaution when assessments seek to address multiple purposes at once, and raises implications for developing future measures.