By Topic:
Early education and care
Mental health and social-emotional well-being
Policy brief: The Family Child Care Network Impact Study: Promising Strategies for Improving Family Child Care Quality
Juliet Bromer
2009
This brief reviews findings from the Family Child Care Network Impact Study and offers recommendations for policy makers and family child care networks seeking to ensure the highest quality care in family child care homes.
Staffed Support Networks and Quality in Family Child Care: Findings from The Family Childcare Network Impact Study
Juliet Bromer
2009
This report reviews findings from the Family Child Care Network Impact Study and offers recommendations for policy makers and family child care networks seeking to ensure the highest quality care in family child care homes.
Issue brief: How Can Work-Based Policies Help Children?
Herr Research Center
2008
In this Issue Brief, we discuss both the scientific and pragmatic
rationale for combining poverty reduction and work-support
policies with early care and education policies.
Executive Summary: Staffed Support Networks and Quality in Family Child Care: Findings from The Family Child Care Network Impact Study
Juliet Bromer
2008
The Family Child Care Network Impact Study examines the relationship between affiliation with a staffed support network and quality of child care among affiliated family child care providers in the city of Chicago. The study identifies several network characteristics associated with higher quality care including the role of network coordinators and direct services to providers. The report includes policy and program recommendations regarding network development.
Children and Social Policy Vol.2
Herr Research Center
2008
Vol 2 No.1 October 2008
Highlights and key messages from the second annual Midwest Policy Conference held in October 2007.
Children and Social Policy newsletter
2007
The first issue of the Herr Research Center's newsletter explores early learning standards and approaches to assessment.
Early Care and Education Programs: What Does Research Tell Us about Their Effects on Child Development?
Carol Horton
2007
This brief reviews the findings of eleven important studies that examine the relationship between ECE programs and child development in real-world settings.
Evaluating early care and education programs: A review of research methods and findings
by Carol Horton
2007
This report presents a detailed review of the most notable recent or ongoing research studies that examine the relationship between early care and education (ECE) program participation and child development. It summarizes the approach and findings of studies of Head Start, child care, state pre-k, and other widely available ECE program types.
Critical Issues in After-School Programming
Robert Halpern
2006
Four papers explore the role of after-school programs in supporting literacy development; their effectiveness at fostering children’s physical well-being; the challenge of system building; and the question of appropriate expectations for such programs. Download entire monograph here. Links to individual papers are also available.
Confronting "The Big Lie": The Need to Reframe Expecations of After-School Programs
Robert Halpern
2006
The Role of After-School Programs in Supporting Low-Income Children's Literacy Development
Robert Halpern
2006
The Challenges of System-Building in the After-School Field: Lessons from Experience
Robert Halpern
2006
Accountability in Early Childhood: No Easy Answers
Occasional Paper by Samuel J. Meisels, Ed.D.
2006
Politicians, policymakers, journalists, and scholars want to know that taxpayer-supported programs for young children work. Increasingly, the measure of program accountability has been reduced to how well a young child performs on a mandated test. In this paper, Meisels examines the genesis of accountability testing in preschool and refutes the quality-assurance, production-model assumptions that underlie its use with young children.
Physical (In)Activity Among Low-Income Children and Youth
Robert Halpern
2006
Mental health and social-emotional well-being
Creating a Workforce in Early Childhood Mental Health:
By Jon Korfmacher and Aimee Hilado
2008
What are early childhood mental health services? Who should provide them, and who has the right to say who can provide these services? This report summarizes a comparison of six states' efforts to define standards and professional competencis in the field.
The Competent Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist
By Jon Korfmacher and Aimee Hilado
2008
This research brief summarizes findings from a comparison of early childhood mental health competency systems across six states, highlighting convergences in the systems’ structure, content, and use. It offers recommendations for policy and practice, discusses how competency systems could be used, and asks whether a national set of competency standards should be implemented.