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Report: Demonstrating Effective Child Care Quality ImprovementCategoriesAreasSTATE:equitable resources development and distribution AuthorsDonna Bryant, Karen Taylor Published2002 PublisherFPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill AbstractThe primary goal of Smart Start is to ensure that all children enter school healthy and prepared to succeed. Based on extensive evidence that child care quality can positively affect children's learning, one of the main ways that Smart Start has tried to achieve the readiness goal is by improving the quality of children's experiences in early care and education programs. Smart Start has funded a variety of technical assistance (TA) activities to improve child care including on-site technical assistance, quality improvement and facility grants, teacher education scholarships, license upgrades, teacher salary supplements, and higher subsidies for higher child care quality or higher teacher education levels. These activities have been designed to improve child care quality and thereby expected to positively affect children's readiness for school. The FPG Smart Start evaluation team wanted to investigate further the issues involved in improving the quality of child care programs. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the types of technical assistance that successful partnerships have employed. Another purpose was to discover the factors, strategies, and collaborative relationships that have helped Demonstrating Effective Child Care Quality Improvement 3 FPG-UNC Smart Start Evaluation Team these successful partnerships carry out the activities. This is a descriptive study that we hope will lead to better information about what works for child care quality improvement and possibly will lay the groundwork for a valid comparison study of different technical assistance strategies. Files |
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