Quality
of Child Care And Development Programs in El Dorado County 

*  PDF El Dorado County Child Care and Development Community Assessment 2000-2003

Research Sites:

*  NCCIC Research
The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a project of the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a national resource that links information and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services.

*  RAND Child Policy Project
Improving child policy and decision making through objective research and analysis.

*  Educators Desk Reference (Formally Ask ERIC)
"Through The Educator's Reference Desk you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses..."

*  Promising Practices
The Promising Practices Network (PPN) Web site highlights programs and practices that credible research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information offered is organized around three major areas: Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening Service Delivery.

*   Abcedarian Longitudinal Study
 "a carefully controlled study in which 57 infants from low-income families were randomly assigned to receive early intervention in a high quality child care setting and 54 were in a non-treated control group. This degree of scientific control gives investigators greater confidence that differences between the treated and untreated individuals can be attributed to the intervention itself, rather than to differences among treated and untreated families..."

*  Perry Preschool Project
 "examines the lives of 123 African Americans born in poverty and at high risk of failing in school. From 1962-1967, at ages 3 and 4, the subjects were randomly divided into a program group who received a high-quality preschool program based on High/Scope's active learning approach and a comparison group who received no preschool program."

*  Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study 
 "High-quality child care positively affects children's cognitive and social skills through the second grade, according to a major national study by researchers..."

*  Study of Early Child Care 
 "the most comprehensive child care study conducted to date to determine how variations in child care are related to children’s development. In 1991, a team of NICHD-supported researchers enrolled 1,364 children in the study and have now followed most of them through the first seven years of their lives..."