Given the intensive demands that collecting attendance data places on program staff, it can often be challenging to collect and might result in a fair amount of missing data, which can compromise the reliability and validity of attendance estimates. Little is known about which methods for...

This research examines factors affecting fathers' continuing support of and engagement in relationships with their very young children. It addresses who the fathers are, what level of involvement they have with their children and families, and how this involvement changes over time. Using a...

This brief explores child-, family-, and program-level factors associated with whether children stay in Early Head Start and Head Start for the full time they are eligible or leave the program early.

Over four years of implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System, a direct assessment of 4-year-olds in the year prior to kindergarten, Mathematica staff visited multiple nationally representative samples of programs, observed child assessments, and interviewed program staff. This...

This technical brief reports on the use of the Toddler Classroom Assessment Scoring System in the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES).