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Download full textWhitebook, Marcy; Phillips, Deborah – 1999
Reliable child care services are widely viewed as pivotal to the success of welfare reform because most welfare recipients depend on child care in order to seek, gain, and maintain employment. Others of the working poor need it to avoid dependency on public assistance. As a result, current policy decisions and research efforts are largely focused…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Children
Peer reviewedPhillips, Deborah; Mekos, Debra; Scarr, Sandra; McCartney, Kathleen; Abbott-Shim, Martha – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2000
Analyzed data from study of typical center-based child care and children's development in three states. Found confirmation of prior evidence regarding importance of ratios, teacher training, and group size for high quality classroom practices; also demonstrated more significant contribution of teacher wages and parent fees. Quality varied with…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Classroom Environment
