Many families find
informal child care settings of varying quality or leave early childhood programs altogether.
Not exact matches
It will widen the lens, producing findings that consider the experiences and
settings of
children from a variety of linguistic, socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds, and in
settings that range from
informal family
care to center - based preschool.»
(2) A program must use information from paragraph (b)(1) of this section with
informal teacher observations and additional information from family and staff, as relevant, to determine a
child's strengths and needs, adjust strategies to better support individualized learning and improve classroom practices in center - based and family
child care settings and improve home visit strategies in home based models.
The study will fill in many of those gaps, helping policymakers understand the characteristics of early
care in formal and
informal settings, the links to
children's outcomes over time, and effective practices to improve quality and access across the spectrum.