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The Child Care Research Scholars Program supports dissertation research addressing child care policy interests in partnership with state Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies. The Child Care Research Scholars Program builds capacity in the field to produce research thatinforms child care policy decision-making.
Explore this OPRE funded research brief that uses nationally representative data from the American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (AIAN FACES 2019) to describe families’ economic conditions and the forms of social and community support they have.
Explore the findings from OPRE's Culture of Continuous Learning (CCL) project which explored the feasibility of implementing an innovative continuous quality improvement methodology, the Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC), in early care and education (ECE) settings. The CCL case study offers ECE leaders in child care and Head Start a rich example and set of considerations for why and how a BSC might fit in a menu of options offered to ECE programs.
Explore OPRE's research brief on how Region XI Head Start children's centers responded early in the COVID-19 pandemic to support children and families.
Explore OPRE’s Home-Based Child Care Supply and Quality (HBCCSQ) project for forthcoming reports, research briefs and more designed to better understand and support the availability and quality of home-based child care (HBCC). Future resources will include a research agenda to fill gaps in what we know; a conceptual framework; and new research addressing important questions about the availability and quality of home-based child care.
This brief describes differences in beliefs, knowledge, and practices of infant and toddler caregivers from fall 2018 to spring 2019 — before and after implementation of the We Grow Together Professional Development System.