Child Care Quality Study: The Impact of Head Start Partnership on Child Care Quality

This report presents findings from a study that examined whether child care providers that partnered with Head Start programs showed improvements in the quality of their services compared with similar child care providers that did not partner with Head Start. The authors report that partnership predicts improved classroom quality; partnership duration predicts observed quality; and partnership predicts some improvements in school readiness outcomes.

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Authors:

Diane SchilderMeghan BroadstoneBen ChaunceyEllen KironCandy MillerYoungok Lim

Services:

Research & Evaluation

Services:

Research & Evaluation

Media Type:

PDF

Resource Type:

Report

Focus Area:

Early Childhood Development & Learning

Date:

2009

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