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Download full textNorth Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Frank Porter Graham Center. – 1995
Smart Start is North Carolina's partnership between state government and local leaders, service providers, and families to better serve children under six years and their families to ensure that all children start school healthy and prepared to succeed. Local Smart Start partnerships spent much of their first year formulating long-term plans,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs
Peer reviewedRidley, Stephanie Maher; McWilliam, R. A.; Oates, Christie S. – Early Education and Development, 2000
Observed engagement of children in 17 child care environments as a way to assess program quality. Found that children in centers that met only minimal licensing requirements had lower levels of engagement than other children, and that center quality was related to quality of experience. (LBT)
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Caregivers, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Maxwell, Kelly; Bryant, Donna; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Buysse, Virginia – 1996
Smart Start is North Carolina's partnership between state government and local leaders, service providers, and families to better serve children under 6 years and their families to ensure that all children enter school healthy and prepared to succeed. This study acquired a baseline measure of the quality of child care in the 12 pioneer Smart Start…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Maxwell, Kelly; Bryant, Donna; Bernier, Kathleen – 1997
Smart Start is North Carolina's partnership between state government and local leaders, service providers, and families to better serve children under 6 years and their families with the aim of ensuring that all children enter school healthy and prepared to succeed. This study examined child care centers in Smart Start counties, focusing on the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Day Care Centers
PDF pending restorationNorth Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, Raleigh. – 1994
This guidebook presents information for use by religious leaders to plan and implement financially sound, high quality child care programs. A foreword describes child care provision as a ministry within the mainstream of congregational activity. Chapter 1, "Assessing the Need," provides a statewide overview of the need for child care…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, After School Programs, Budgeting, Certification
