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Explaining Local Variability in Child Care Quality: State Funding and Regulation in California.
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Fuller, Bruce; Holloway, Susan D.; Bozzi, Lauri; Burr, Elizabeth; Cohen, Nancy; Suzuki, Sawako – Early Education and Development, 2003
Assessed child care quality based on reports of 170 center directors in three California counties. Responses indicated that most centers in lower-income and working-class communities displayed at least moderate quality levels along structural measures. About 1 in 6 failed to meet recommended quality standards. Center quality was not consistently…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Economic Factors, Poverty
Do Child Care Centers Benefit Poor Children after School Entry?
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Bassok, Daphna; French, Desiree; Fuller, Bruce; Kagan, Sharon Lynn – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2008
Attendance in preschool centers can yield short-term benefits for children from poor or middle-class families. Yet debate persists in Europe and the United States over whether centers yield gains of sufficient magnitude to sustain children's cognitive or social advantages as they move through primary school. We report on child care and home…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers