Understanding quality in context: Child care centers, communities, markets, and public policy [Executive summary]

Description:

A summary of a study of child care center directors' definitions of child care quality, the quality of care in the directors' centers, and the relationship between director and center characteristics and center quality, based on in-depth interviews with directors in 38 centers across 4 sites and observations of quality in the 38 centers

Resource Type:

Executive Summary

Author(s):

Rohacek Monica; Adams Gina; Kisker Ellen Eliason

Publisher(s):

Urban Institute

Funder(s):

United States. Administration for Children and Families; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Urban Institute

Date Issued:

2010

Source:

Washington, DC: Urban Institute. Retrieved August 13, 2010, from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412191-understand-quality.pdf

Note:

This resource was written with Anna Danziger, Teresa Derrick-Mills, and Heidi Johnson

Topics:

5. Child Care & Early Education Provider Workforce

4. Child Care & Early Education Providers/Organizations > 4.1. Provider Type/Setting > 4.1.1. Center-Based Child Care & Early Education

11. Child Care & Early Education Quality

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