[PDF] Evaluating The Quality Of Family Day Care eBook

Author : Ed. D. P. Burns Bellamy
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2001-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0595202594

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Based on the research and experience of Dr. Bellamy, this definitive reference work, months in the making, is one of the most complete and authoritative evaluations of early care and education made available to the public. As welfare reforms put more mothers back to work and off public assistance, the need for quality child care in the new millennium will reach an all-time high. Cities throughout the country are facing the ultimate question: How does the government help families become self-sufficient and productive without jeopardizing quality care and development of the children? This book provides a critical look at welfare reforms and at families who struggle to comply with policy guidelines without compromising the care and development of their young children. Here, in a warm and jargon-free style, a single work offers families all the practical information needed to select the best quality in child care for their young children. Educators and child care officials will find in this work a reservoir of information designed for excellence in early care and education. Policymakers will find this work a priceless source in shaping welfare reforms.

Author : Marie Masterson
Publisher : Essentials
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781938113352

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The basic information family child care providers need to run a successful program in a warm, welcoming setting for children and their families

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2000-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309069882

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How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "expertise." The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the first months and years-have reached the popular media. How can we use our burgeoning knowledge to assure the well-being of all young children, for their own sake as well as for the sake of our nation? Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and other issues. The committee issues a series of challenges to decision makers regarding the quality of child care, issues of racial and ethnic diversity, the integration of children's cognitive and emotional development, and more. Authoritative yet accessible, From Neurons to Neighborhoods presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how kids learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.

Author : Gail L. Zellman
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0833045237

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As a result of the generally low quality of child care in the United States, quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) are proliferating in the child-care arena. This study examines the QRIS developed by Qualistar Early Learning, a nonprofit organization based in Colorado, evaluating how reliable the system's components are, whether the QRIS process helped providers to improve, and whether and how much children benefit from such improvement.

Author : California. State Department of Education
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Child care
ISBN :

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This program quality review instrument was designed for use in determining the quality of California's family day care programs in terms of seven functional components. These components included: (1) philosophy, goals, and objectives; (2) administration; (3) identification of the child's and family's needs; (4) home environment; (5) parent education and involvement; (6) community resources and involvement; and (7) program evaluation. The instrument specified for each functional component indicators and items which reviewers could check depending on whether the requirements of the functional component had been met. Verification of the presence and effectiveness of an indicator or item was made through documentation, observation, interview, or a combination of these methods. The instrument used was also designed to be used in self-review, as a teaching tool, and as the basis of planning for program improvement. Programs were rated excellent, good, adequate, or inadequate; if rated inadequate, programs must submit an improvement plan within 30 days of the review. (RH)

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2006-09-14
Category :
ISBN : 926403546X

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This review of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in twenty OECD countries describes the social, economic, conceptual and research factors that influence early childhood policy.

Author : Florencia López Boo
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 159782223X

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This toolkit is designed to be a resource for researchers and technical staff of any discipline, working for governments and institutions interested in measuring and monitoring the quality of child care centers serving infants ages 0 to 3 years (36 months).