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These links and resources, also included in the state profiles and topics pages, describe how advocates and leaders are maximizing the economic power of early care and education through messaging, policy, and collaboration. Type keywords in search box below to find selected resources.- Getting Started in the Business of Family Child Care Published by Redleaf Press, a division of Resource for Child Caring, a Child Care R&R in St. Paul, MN, as a resource for Family Child Care providers. Step-by-step instructions on how to establish and run a child care business.
- Maximizing Resources from the Stimulus Package: Possible Strategies for Funding Quality Rating and Improvement Systems Anne Mitchell and Louise Stoney, Alliance for Early Childhood Finance. The federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, the “Stimulus Package,” includes a number of appropriations that have relevance for early childhood policy and systems change. Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are increasingly seen as a foundational piece of systems-building strategies, since they enable states to leverage resources and bring other components such as standards and professional development into alignment with one another. This memo discusses potential resources for early childhood under the Stimulus Package, and identifies ways that these funds could be used to support QRIS.
- Guide to Datasets for Research and Policymaking in Child Care and Early Education. 2009. Mariajosé Romero and Ayana Douglas-Hall. National Center for Children in Poverty.
- While no one was looking – Community based soultions to linking early learning and early grades: Implications for state policy Lessons from SPARK Initiative.2009. Mimi Howard. Education Commission of the States
- 2006 Governor's Summits on School Readiness in Montana. 2007. Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
- The Effects of Oklahoma’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program on Hispanic Children. 2008.William T. Gormley, Jr., Center for Research on Children in the United States
- Who's Caring for the Kids? The Status of the Early Childhood Workforce in Illinois-2008. 2008. National-Louis University's McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership and the Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois.
- Workforce Designs: A Policy Blueprint for State Early Childhood Professional Development Systems. 2008. Sarah LeMoine. National Association for the Education of Young Children.
- First Children's Finance: Tips for Engaging the Private Sector. First Children\'s Finance.
- Lesssons Learned from the Qualistar Rating and Improvement System RAND Validation Study. 2008. Diana Schaack. Qualistar Early Learning.
- Put Early Childhood on Our Economic Development Agenda. Guest column in The Times-Picayune. October 6, 2008. Geoffrey Nagle. The Times-Picayune.
- Exceptional Returns: Economic, Fiscal, and Social Benefits of Investment in Early Childhood Development. October 2004. Robert G. Lynch. Economic Policy Institute.
- The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children. October 2004. James J. Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov. University of Chicago
- Articulating the Economic Importance of Child Care for Community Development. June 2006. A special issue of the Journal of the Community Development Society Vol. 37, No. 2.
- Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation: Public Investment in High-Quality Kindergarten. May 2007. Robert G. Lynch. Economic Policy Institute.
- Act 259 Report to the 2008 State Legislature. 2008. Early Learning Educational Task Force.
- Build Ohio: A Legacy of Quality for Ohio's Young Children. 2002 - 2008 Special Report. 2008. Amy Swanson. BUILD Ohio.
- Building Child Care into New Developments: A Guide To Creating Child Care Facilities In Transit-Oriented Developments. 2008. Local Investment in Child Care.
- Charting Progress for Babies in Care: Policy Framework Summary . 2008. Rachel Schumacher, Elizabeth Hoffmann and Anne Goldstein. Center for Law and Social Policy and ZERO TO THREE,
- CICK Resource Guide - The ABCs of Child Care. 2008. Amy Gillman, Cindy Larson, Mav Pardee, & Carl Sussman. Local Initiatives Support Corporation Community Investment Collaborative for Kids.
- Community Investment Collaborative for Kids Resource Guide: The ABCs of Child Care. 2008. Amy Gillman, Cindy Larson, Mav Pardee and Carl Sussman. Local Initiatives Support Corporation/Community Investment Collaborative for Kids.
- Compounding Interest: Why ZERO TO FIVE Is an Investment Worth Making. 2008. Voices for Georgia's Children.
- Designing Quality Rating Systems Inclusive of Infants and Toddlers. 2008. National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative and ZERO TO THREE
- Early Care and Education Career Lattices in Los Angeles, Full Report. 2008. Tarecq Amer, Ravinder Mangat, and Susie Suafai. Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
- Early Childhood Quality Standards Task Force Final Report. 2008. South Carolina Task Force on Early Childhood Quality Standards.