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Schulman, Karen; Matthews, Hannah; Blank, Helen; Ewen, Danielle – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2012
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS)--a strategy to improve families' access to high-quality child care--assess the quality of child care programs, offer incentives and assistance to programs to improve their ratings, and give information to parents about the quality of child care. These systems are operating in a growing number of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Administrators, Quality Assurance
Friedman, Dana E. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2007
Quality Rating System (QRS) initiatives define levels of quality based on research and then support providers with funding and technical assistance to increase their quality. Each program is assessed and given a number of "stars" to indicate to parents what level of quality the program has reached. In this article, the author describes…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Care Centers, Rating Scales, Program Evaluation