The final report to Congress presents complete findings from our seven-year national evaluation of Early Head Start. The findings show that the program promotes learning and the parenting that supports it within the first three years of life. Participating children perform significantly better...

Early Head Start, a federal program begun in 1995 for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers, was evaluated through a randomized trial of 3,001 families in 17 programs. Interviews with primary caregivers, child assessments, and observations of parent– child...

This report describes strategies for supporting quality in home-based child care settings as well as considerations for decision-making and ongoing evaluation.

This compendium of initiatives provides comprehensive, up-to-date information about home-based child care and initiative designs to support quality in these settings.

This publication, the first major report on the Early Head Start national evaluation, focuses on early implementation experiences and tells the story of the 17 programs that helped launch the first nationwide program for low-income infants and toddlers.

This report presents findings from an impact evaluation and implementation study of the Seeds to Success Modified Field Test, a child care quality rating and improvement system in Washington State.