This research brief describes instructional practices that support English language learners and presents findings on how those practices are applied in Los Angeles Universal preschool center-based classrooms and family child care programs.

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

This report estimates Early Head Start impacts on children and families when children were in fifth grade. It includes additional nonexperimental analyses to inform program practice and guide future research. Impacts on the full sample of children and families in the grade 5 followup suggest...

These tables provide statistics for all analyses in the research report.

This issue brief describes children's development in the Los Angeles Universal Preschool program during 2010–2011. English-proficient students showed significant growth in early literacy skills from fall to spring, with their mean scores exceeding the national average. However, their...

This report provides insight into the demographics of Head Start children and families; children's cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development and health during a year in the program; and key attributes of Head Start classrooms and programs for children who entered Head Start for the...

The report reviews the purpose of cost analyses and existing literature on the costs of home visiting program models selected by EBHV grantees, describes plans for collection and analysis of cross-site cost study data, and offers EBHV grantees information regarding their continuing role in data...

Using data from FACES 2006, this report profiles the 3- and 4-year-old Head Start children and families newly enrolled in fall 2006 and still attending in spring 2007. Although they enter Head Start below national norms on most measures of language, literacy, and math skills, these children make...