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 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 comprehensive literature review examines quality in home-based child care settings.

Presents information on children born in 2001, collected when they were about nine months of age. Includes information on the characteristics of the children and their families, the early mental and physical skills of the children, their first experiences in child care, and their fathers.

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...