Getting to positive outcomes for children in child care
Subtitle: a summary of two workshops
By: Board on Children, Youth, and Families ; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine.
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Children, Youth, and Families.; National Research Council (U.S.)
Series: The compass series; Compass series (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Child care services -- United States -- Evaluation.; Early childhood education -- United States -- Evaluation.; Child development -- United States.; Child welfare -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-38).
"Committee on Law and Justice and Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine."
Summary of two workshops on child care performance measures: 1st workshop held Sept. 27-28, 1999, addressed the current status of national and state efforts to assess the performance of child care and early childhood education; 2nd workshop held Feb. 28-29, 2000 focused on establishing criteria for assessing the quality of child care programs and the implications for developing and implementing performance measures for the field.