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Tout, Kathryn; Halle, Tamara; Douglass, Anne; Cleveland, Jennifer; Doyle, Stephanie; Agosti, Jen; Bamdad, Tiffany; Nagle, Kerensa – Administration for Children & Families, 2021
Young children and their families benefit from early care and education (ECE) settings that implement high-quality practices that support children's well-being, health, and safety. Activities to support quality are a focal point of federal and state investments, including more than $1 billion of the Child Care and Development Fund and nearly $240…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Sustainability
Warner-Richter, Mallory; Hirilall, Ashley; Li, Winnie; Tout, Kathryn – Child Trends, 2018
The Tutoring Partnership was a Saint Paul and Minneapolis network of 28 community-based programs that provided academic interventions through tutoring. The common goal was improving students' academic outcomes. The Tutoring Partnership, operated by the Saint Paul Public Schools Foundation, supported participating programs by helping them improve…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Tutoring, School Community Programs, Program Effectiveness
Warner-Richter, Mallory; Hirilall, Ashley; Li, Winnie; Tout, Kathryn – Child Trends, 2018
This report summarizes findings from an implementation and outcomes study of the Tutoring Partnership. The Tutoring Partnership was a Saint Paul and Minneapolis network of 28 community-based programs that provided academic interventions through tutoring. The common goal was improving students' academic outcomes. The Tutoring Partnership, operated…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Tutoring, School Community Programs, Program Effectiveness
Kane, 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
Epstein, Dale; Hegseth, Danielle; Friese, Sarah; Miranda, Brenda; Gebhart, Tracy; Partika, Anne; Tout, Kathryn – Child Trends, 2017
Arizona's First Things First partners with other agencies to create a high-quality, family-centered, comprehensive, and collaborative early childhood system that supports the development, health, and early education of all Arizona's children through age 5, helping ensure they enter kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed. One of First Things…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, School Readiness, Educational Quality
Tout, Kathryn; Epstein, Dale; Soli, Meg; Lowe, Claire – Child Trends, 2015
As Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) continue to launch and mature across states, questions emerge from stakeholders about how to design and implement effective quality improvement (QI) initiatives that accompany a QRIS. Funders, policymakers, and program developers with limited resources are looking to invest in activities that will…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Quality Control