Provides information about the strategies used in CA, FL, IA, MI, TN, and WI to help parents of infants make the transition to school or work while promoting the health and development of their infants. Also looks at the policy and program challenges states and communities are facing.

Summary for publication WelfaretoWork Transitions for Parents of Infants InDepth Study of Eight Communities

Head Start, the largest federally funded preschool program, provides comprehensive services to economically disadvantaged children and their families so that children can enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school. Performance standards include requirements for the intensity and quality of a...

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

This toolkit is an informational resource for state administrators, child care and early education practitioners, and other stakeholders on how QRISs work, how to plan and design QRIS evaluations, and why such evaluations are important.

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

This toolkit is an informational resource for state administrators, child care and early education practitioners, and other stakeholders on how QRISs work, how to plan and design QRIS evaluations, and why such evaluations are important.

Head Start, the largest federally funded preschool program, provides comprehensive services to economically disadvantaged children and their families so that children can enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school. Performance standards include requirements for the intensity and quality of a...

This volume provides a compendium of measures that could be used to evaluate the effectiveness of Head Start enhancements. The focus is on child outcome measures, although measures pertaining to intermediate outcomes related both to changes in the program and changes in the home are included....