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The goal of the QRS Assessment is to provide information, analysis, and resources about QRISs for states and other…

This short-form product summarizes findings from a study on state reported barriers and solutions to implementing the interstate background check requirements of the CCDBG Act of 2014.

This user's guide describes what types of variables are in the NSECE public-use data files, how to use the NSECE public-use data files, and what variables are included in the 2019 Workforce public-use data file.

Explore profiles of existing home-based child care measures and indicators.

Learn about the quality measurement, reliability and validity, affordability and feasibility to use, and other strengths and limitations of existing home-based child care measures and indicators.

This OPRE brief uses data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2019) to explore Head Start programs’ interaction with other systems such as licensing, QRISs, as well as with non-Head Start sources of funding like state and local pre-K.

To build the evidence base on HBCC availability and quality, the Home-Based Child Care Supply and Quality (HBCCSQ) project developed an equity-focused research—or learning—agenda, with the goal to use research to help ensure everyone, especially people from historically excluded and/or marginalized communities, has fair and equitable access to resources and opportunities and the capacity to take advantage of them.

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 report describes the research and evaluation activities undertaken by our Division of Child and Family Development in 2020. Brief project descriptions provide an overview of the range of projects conducted by the Division during the year in early childhood research, child care, Head Start and Early Head Start, child welfare, human trafficking, and cultural diversity.

This resource guide provides information for researchers about administrative data collected on federal policies and programs that (in whole or part) support young children with disabilities.