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Direct linkKane, Maggie; Lowe, Claire; Tout, Kathryn; Warner-Richter, Mallory – Child Trends, 2018
For more than 20 years, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (United Way) has made high-quality early care and education a cornerstone priority of its investment strategy. United Way has also been a longtime champion of school readiness for the youngest children in southeastern Pennsylvania. In 1996, the organization joined…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, School Readiness
Moore, Kristin A.; Caal, Selma; Lawner, Elizabeth K.; Rojas, Angela; Walker, Karen – Child Trends, 2014
Child Trends conducted a random assignment evaluation of the Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors program, one of the largest programs in the United States working with low-income Latino parents of children ages zero to five. Since it began in 2007, the program has served over 30,000 parents/families in 34 states. The evaluation study examined the…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Low Income Groups, Hispanic Americans, Program Effectiveness
Child Trends, 2011
Since 1965, Head Start has provided comprehensive services to help prepare the nation's most disadvantaged three- to five-year-old children for school and to strengthen their families. In 1998 Congress instructed the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to conduct an evaluation of Head Start to determine its impact on child development…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement
Burchinal, Peg; Kainz, Kirsten; Cai, Karen; Tout, Kathryn; Zaslow, Martha; Martinez-Beck, Ivelisse; Rathgeb, Colleen – Child Trends, 2009
States and the federal government have invested in early care and education programs with an explicit goal of improving school readiness for low-income children. These investments, aimed at strengthening the quality of care and supporting families' access to high-quality settings, are based in part on a confluence of research findings showing a…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Low Income, Research Methodology, Academic Achievement
Moore, Kristin Anderson; Murphey, David; Emig, Carol; Hamilton, Kathleen; Hadley, Alena; Sidorowicz, Katie – Child Trends, 2009
President Obama has proposed creation of up to 20 "Promise Neighborhoods" in communities experiencing poverty, crime, and low student achievement. Promise Neighborhoods would engage children and parents within a defined geographic area in a multifaceted strategy to meet several goals: good physical and mental health for every child, enrollment in…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Poverty, Crime, At Risk Persons
Forry, Nicole; Vick, Jessica; Halle, Tamara – Child Trends, 2009
Measures of quality are now in widespread use across states as part of quality improvement initiatives. For example, many states are currently using global measures of quality that were first developed for research and practice purposes (such as the Environmental Rating Scales) in their Quality Rating Systems (QRSs). Although global quality…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities, Rating Scales
