High-quality early care and education for children from birth to kindergarten entry is critical to
positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, which …

We describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive
preschool to third grade prevention program for the goals of sustaining services at a large …

Family court judges should make decisions per the best interests of the child standard (Child
Welfare Information Gateway, 2020). High conflict custody cases make this complicated …

Early education has emerged as a critical issue for state policymakers, who during the 2015-
16 fiscal year alone invested nearly $7 billion in programs for our country's youngest …

This chapter provides an overview of the common objectives and structural elements of
quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) including a brief history of this phenomenon …

This study used a sequential explanatory equal-status mixed-method design to investigate
whether Maryland's child care tiered reimbursement system incentivized child care centers …

Many preschool agencies nationwide continue to experience closures and/or conversions to
virtual or hybrid instruction due to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

As states and localities expand their investments in pre-kindergarten (pre-K) programs,
policymakers need to understand the cost, at both the provider and system levels, of …

In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of the first year of a federally-funded, evidence-
based preschool through third grade intervention in Chicago. We use inverse probability …

Methods: We used the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Model for Improvement.
Interventions included system changes in partnership with ECE agencies (eg, interactive …