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Zipi Diamond; Rowan Hilty; Holly Keaton; Catherine Schaefer; Keiyitho Omonuwa – Child Trends, 2024
In March 2022, Child Trends contracted with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to conduct an independent evaluation of Parent Aware, Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for early care and education (ECE) programs. The evaluation, required by the 2021 Minnesota Legislature, includes several research activities…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Program Evaluation
Soli, Margaret; Daily, Sarah; Maxwell, Kelly; Bultinck, Erin; Rothenberg, Laura; Ponder, Karen – Child Trends, 2016
In 2007 the Colorado General Assembly established the Early Childhood Councils (HB07-1062) and charged them with "increasing and sustaining the quality, accessibility, capacity, and affordability of early childhood services for children five years of age or younger and their parents." In March 2016 Child Trends, a non-profit research and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Family Programs, Health Programs
Tout, Kathryn; Epstein, Dale; Soli, Meg; Lowe, Claire – Child Trends, 2015
As Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) continue to launch and mature across states, questions emerge from stakeholders about how to design and implement effective quality improvement (QI) initiatives that accompany a QRIS. Funders, policymakers, and program developers with limited resources are looking to invest in activities that will…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Quality Control
Redd, Zakia; Princiotta, Daniel; Stratford, Brandon; Caal, Selma; Li, Weilin; Murphy, Kelly; Coffey, Amelia; Carrington, Nicholas; Carney, Rachel; Oster, Maryjo; Horton, Susannah – Child Trends, 2015
J.C. Nalle is a Community School located in the Marshall Heights neighborhood of Ward 7 in Washington, D.C. The community in which J.C. Nalle is located, historically one of the more economically disadvantaged areas of the city, has experienced a number of changes in recent years. This report of evaluation findings begins with an introduction to…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Economically Disadvantaged, Community Schools, Partnerships in Education