Diversity, child care quality, and developmental outcomes
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Participants
The Cost, Quality and Outcomes Project was designed to examine the relations among child care costs, quality, and longitudinal outcomes for children in full-time care in community child care centers. Included in this paper are child care and child outcomes data collected during the first year of the study in 1993 (see Peisner-Feinberg & Burchinal, 1997 for details). Child care centers were randomly selected from centers providing full-time care for at least 11 months a year in four regions—Los
Participants
Participants were recruited from hospitals located in or near Little Rock, AR; Irvine, CA; Lawrence, KS; Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Charlottesville, VA; Morganton, NC; Seattle, WA; and Madison, WI. During selected 24-hour sampling periods in 1991, 8,986 women giving birth were visited in the hospital. Of these, 5,265 met the eligibility criteria for the study and agreed to be contacted after their return home from the hospital. Excluded families included families who did not
Acknowledgements
The work reported herein was supported under the Educational Research and Development Center Program, PR/Award Number R307A60004, as administered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education. However, the contents do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, or the U.S. Department of Education, and endorsement by the Federal
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