Child care center quality and early child development

Evaluating the Implementation of Child Development and Care Program in Isfahan Comprehensive Child Development Center

Abstract Background: The Comprehensive Child Development Center was established in 2012 in the center of Isfahan province to rapidly identify and intervene in the developmental problems of children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation of this program. Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical study conducted based on the framework for evaluating public health programs es...

Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

Child Care Subsidies and Child Development Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently, there are reasons to be concerned about the implications ...

Child Care Center Quality : Measurement Issues and Links to Child Developmental Outcomes ∞ Data Documentation 25

INCOME AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT Center for Research on Child

We examine how income influences pre-school children’s cognitive and behavioral development, using new data from a birth cohort study of children born at the end of the 20 century. On average, low income children have lower PPVT scores, more mother-reported aggressive, withdrawn, and anxious behavior problems, and also more interviewer-reported problems with behavior, than more affluent childre...

chilD carE Quality

This Research-to-Policy, Research­ to-Practice brief series focuses on issues related to the development and refinement of measures to assess the quality of early childhood and school age care settings. This series is supported under contract # HHSP233200500198U to Child Trends from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administra­ tion for Children and Families, U.S. Department of H...