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Direct linkMaher, Erin J. – Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2007
The contribution of family, friend, and neighbor caregivers to the overall supply of child care and the care and education of our nation's youngest children is substantial. This brief explores, for policy and other audiences, some of the issues around measuring quality in family, friend, and neighbor care. The purpose is not to provide a…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Measurement, Rating Scales
Porter, Toni – Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2007
This paper presents an overview of current efforts to document or evaluate initiatives for family, friend, and neighbor child care. The initiatives are grouped into two categories: those that view these caregivers through the child care lens and aim to improve the quality of care that they provide to children; and those that see these caregivers…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Models, Caregiver Training
Lawrence, Sharmila; Kreader, J. Lee – Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2006
School-age children ages 5 through 12 years spend their out-of-school time in many different types of arrangements. In addition to parental care, these include relative care, non-relative care (either in their own or another family's home), center- or school-based programs, sports and extracurricular activities, summer activities, and self-care.…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Child Care, Theory Practice Relationship, Child Caregivers
Kreader, J. Lee; Ferguson, Daniel; Lawrence, Sharmila – Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2005
The Research-to-Policy Connections series summarizes current research on key topics in child care and early education and discusses implications for policymakers. An examination of employed parents' child care arrangements for their infants and toddlers while working, at school, or otherwise unavailable to provide parental child care, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Employed Parents, Child Care, Performance Factors
