Early childhood development programs—which often involve the health, education, child welfare, and other sectors—are of great interest to policymakers, service providers, and families around the globe. This paper proposes that equity in access and quality are critical to effect...

The Head Start “I Am Moving, I Am Learning†initiative aims to prevent childhood obesity by increasing the time children spend in physical activity, improving the quality of these activities, and promoting healthy food choices. This report examines the extent to which grantees who...

<I>I Am Moving, I Am Learning</I> is a Head Start program enhancement for integrating obesity prevention activities into daily practices. This research brief, based on Mathematica’s interim report, documents the findings from a survey of 53 Head Start programs that participated in training in Region...</i>

The Head Start “I Am Moving, I Am Learning†initiative aims to prevent childhood obesity by increasing the time children spend in physical activity, improving the quality of these activities, and promoting healthy food choices. This report examines the extent to which grantees who...

This report presents findings from the two-year implementation evaluation of the "I am Moving, I am Learning (IM/IL)" enhancements in Head Start Region III to address childhood obesity.

This report focuses on approaches used by QRISs in Indiana and Pennsylvania to connect with and build on the programs and resources that exist within the early childhood care and education system.

This report summarizes the final design for the cross-site evaluation, including detailed information about data collection and analysis plans.

This report provides a brief summary of the cross-site evaluation design.

Mathematica's evaluation looked at early childhood developing programming, policy development, and investments; (2) efforts to enhance infrastructure to expand and sustain investments in service quality and support parent choice and decision making; and (3) efforts to integrate programs and...