This study examines the impact of caregiving on children growing up in military caregiving homes to help address the national challenge of providing effective support to caregivers of all ages and backgrounds.
This brief explores the informal child care landscape in Philadelphia. It explores the perceived benefits of informal care, why parents choose it, and why providers offer it.
This issue brief highlights learnings from a formative evaluation of a collaborative effort by a funder, a research organization, and three community partners that set out to shed light on the strengths, limitations, and needs of informal child care providers in southwest Detroit.
This report describes the cross-site evaluation design for the fourth cohort of RPG projects (RPG4). It presents an overview of the design for the RPG4 cross-site evaluation, including a conceptual framework to guide the evaluation, research questions, data sources, and collection methods.
This issue brief discusses barriers to providing high quality informal child care in Detroit and how to overcome them.
This issue brief describes care arrangements and parent and informal caregiver social support networks in Detroit.
This issue brief highlights the role of informal child care in Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan.
The Kauffman School is a public charter school serving students from low-income neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri.
The authors found that ecomapping is an engaging and flexible method of capturing and understanding complex child care arrangements and social networks in home-based child care settings.
In each of its first five years, the Kauffman School had positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful impacts on student achievement growth in mathematics, English language arts and science, beyond the growth achieved by students in other Kansas City public schools.
In each of its first five years, the Kauffman School had positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful impacts on student achievement growth in mathematics, English language arts and science, beyond the growth achieved by students in other Kansas City public schools.
The Kauffman School is a charter school in Kansas City, Missouri that serves students from the city’s most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. This report evaluates the effectiveness of the school at improving student achievement during its first four years of operation.
After years of operating programs focused on improving education in Kansas City, Kauffman Foundation leaders decided to establish charter school. The path they followed and the lessons they learned may be of interest to those working to found and/or improve charter schools.
The Kauffman School is a charter school in Kansas City, Missouri that opened in 2011 to serve middle and high school students from the city’s most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
The Kauffman School is a public charter school that serves students from low-income neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri. This report evaluates the effectiveness of the school at improving student achievement, attendance, and suspension outcomes during its first three years of operation.
This issue brief is the last in a series of three presenting the findings from the Informal Caregivers Research Project, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Children, Families, and Communities (CFC) program and conducted by Mathematica.
This brief presents findings on informal caregivers’ and parents’ networks, focusing on child care arrangements and sources of support and information related to caregiving from a small sample of informal caregivers and parents in California’s Bay Area.
The Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES) is a study of Early Head Start (EHS) programs designed to inform policy and programmatic decision -making at both national and local levels.
This issue brief presents findings from the Informal Caregivers Research Project, which aims to find out who informal caregivers are and to learn about their existing networks and needs for support in California.
The Kauffman School is a charter school in Kansas City, Missouri that opened in 2011 to serve middle and high school students from the city’s most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.