This report shares in-depth findings regarding the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance/retention (ERSEA) approaches that Head Start programs use to engage Head Start-eligible families experiencing adversities.
This analysis brief is part of the Home-Based Child Care Supply and Quality (HBCCSQ) project and examines the demographics, economic well-being, and health of HBCC providers. The brief is one in a series that presents a national portrait of unlisted HBCC providers.
This analysis brief is part of the Home-Based Child Care Supply and Quality (HBCCSQ) project and examines how unlisted HBCC providers spend their caregiving time, services provided, and children served. The brief is one in a series that presents a national portrait of unlisted HBCC providers.
This analysis brief is part of the Home-Based Child Care Supply and Quality (HBCCSQ) project and examines unlisted providers’ caregiving histories, motivations, and recent professional support experiences. The brief is one in a series that presents a national portrait of unlisted HBCC providers.
This tip sheet provides key considerations for how organizations can identify potential diverse external partners, conduct outreach to them, and build and sustain productive relationships with them.
This literature review aims to understand who is and is not being served by Head Start among families experiencing adversity; the range of recruitment, selection, enrollment, and retention (RSER) strategies that programs use with families experiencing adversity; the factors that shape the use of RSER...
This study examines associations between scores on the Pre-K Classroom Assessment Scoring System and children’s school readiness outcomes, whether these associations vary by children’s background characteristics, and whether there are thresholds at which these associations are stronger.
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) provides national information about Head Start programs and participants. This report includes information on the FACES 2019 study design and presents key findings from the study’s spring 2020 data collection.
This research brief uses nationally representative data from FACES 2014 and 2019 to examine whether two teacher-reported scales of children’s (1) approaches to learning and (2) literacy skills have strong measurement properties and validly measure early learning skills in a nonbiased way.
This research brief uses nationally representative data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2019) to understand why Head Start families choose their child’s Head Start program, what their experiences are like in their program, and if they plan to return next year.
This agenda is a proposed set of research questions about how the conditions and systems that affect HBCC and how HBCC providers’ practices and experiences influence positive and equitable outcomes for children and families in these HBCC settings.
Tables in this report describe children enrolled in Region XI Head Start programs in spring 2020; their families’ backgrounds and home environments; the characteristics of their classrooms, centers, and programs; and their programs’ and centers’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also describes study...
This report on the American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2019 discusses study methodology, sample, and analytic methods. Tables in this report describe children in Region XI Head Start programs in fall 2019, their family backgrounds and home environments.
This research brief uses nationally representative data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2019) to understand the prevalence of material hardships, financial strain, and social supports among parents with children in Head Start.
This report includes information on the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2019 (FACES 2019) study design.
Early Head Start provides a comprehensive array of services for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers.
This brief describes the gains children made across a year of Head Start for children returning for their second year of Head Start and children entering their first year, using nationally representative data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2014-2018 (FACES 2014).
This resource presents a crosswalk of place-based systems change frameworks to identify their most common elements. It can serve as a guide for funders, practitioners, and other stakeholders to inform their efforts to support, develop, or refine place-based systems change.
This research brief presents findings from a literature scan conducted to better understand the performance of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System-Preschool (Pre-K CLASS; Pianta, La Paro, and Hamre 2008) in early care and education studies.
This snapshot describes youth and young adults served by the 2015 cohort of Healthy Marriage grantees as part of the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-Site Project. It also describes the services the youth received, and the changes they experienced from the beginning to the end of the...
This snapshot describes services provided by the 2015 cohort of Responsible Fatherhood grantees as part of the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-Site Project. It also describes tools used to build clients’ relationship and parenting skills to support their economic well-being.
This snapshot describes adults served by the 2015 cohort of Healthy Marriage grantees as part of the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-Site Project. It also describes services provided to clients’ to help build relationship and parenting skills.
This set of tables presents national information from a study conducted by the National Center for Education Evaluation (NCEE).
This snapshot describes client recruitment by the 2015 cohort of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees as part of the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-Site Project. To implement their programs, each grantee must find potential clients for whom its services would be appropriate,...
This Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology article summarizes a study that uses a resiliency framework to provide a national portrait of low-income Black and Hispanic/Latino boys served by Head Start.
This brief describes the characteristics of adults who enrolled in 43 healthy marriage (HM) programs that were funded in 2015. This information is intended to increase the field’s understanding of who is interested in HM services.
This brief describes the characteristics of adults who enrolled in 40 responsible fatherhood programs that were funded in 2015.
This brief describes the staffing patterns for 45 healthy marriage and 40 responsible fatherhood programs that were funded in 2015.
This report describes the 2015 cohort of 85 Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees, which were awarded five-year grants in September 2015.
This study conducted analyses that examined the performance of the Preschool Language Assessment Scale (preLAS) and the Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT-3: SBE), a conceptually scored vocabulary measure, for determining dual language learner (DLL) children’s language path through a...
This research brief describes the professional development experiences of Head Start staff (program directors, center directors, teachers, and other staff), using nationally representative data from the spring 2017 round of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2014-2018 (FACES 2014).
Appendix tables to accompany a research brief on the professional development experiences of Head Start staff (program directors, center directors, teachers, and other staff), using nationally representative data from the spring 2017 round of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2014-2018...
Early care and education (ECE) teachers shape children's daily experiences in many ways. Specifically, teachers’ well‐being, attitudes about child development, and teaching practices are central influences on children's learning.
This report includes key information on the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2014–2018 (FACES 2014) study design.
This research brief describes the characteristics of Head Start programs, leaders, and teachers that prior research shows are related to classroom quality, using recent data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2014).
This research brief describes the family background and developmental progress of Head Start children as they complete a program year (from fall 2014 to spring 2015), using recent data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2014).
This report (1) provides information about the AIAN FACES 2015 study, including the background, design, methodology, measures, and analytic methods, and (2) reports detailed descriptive statistics in a series of tables on children, their families, and their classrooms, centers, and programs.
This research brief describes the characteristics, well-being, and development of children and families at the beginning of the Head Start program year.
This report presents descriptive statistics for the characteristics of classrooms, teachers, centers, and programs serving Head Start children and families in spring 2015.
This brief provides a nationally representative description of dual language learner (DLL) children in Head Start (that is, children who have a primary home language other than English), their families, and their homes at the beginning of the program year.
This brief provides a nationally representative description of dual language learner (DLL) children in Head Start (that is, children who have a primary home language other than English), their families, and their homes at the beginning of the program year.
The preliminary data in this report describe parents’ and staffs’ perspectives on the family engagement activities and service provision in Head Start programs.
This report presents descriptive statistics on the demographic backgrounds and developmental outcomes of children enrolled in Head Start in fall 2014 who were still enrolled in spring 2015.
This report presents descriptive statistics on the demographic backgrounds and developmental outcomes of children enrolled in Head Start in fall 2014.
This report provides a portrait of Head Start programs, including characteristics of programs and management staff, supports provided to staff at all levels, and program services.
This report focuses on describing aspects of Head Start children’s family and classroom environments that may support children’s kindergarten achievement, drawing on data from the 2009 cohort of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2009).
This brief focuses on Head Start children’s developmental progress and kindergarten experiences, drawing on data from the 2009 cohort of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2009).
This study examined associations between the expressive vocabulary of classroom peers and children’s own vocabulary knowledge using conceptual scoring in a linguistically diverse sample of 4-year-olds who attended universal preschool programs in a metropolitan area.
In this report, we highlight findings from cross-cohort analyses of data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2006, 2009, and 2014.
The literature review report for the Professional Development Tools to Improve the Quality of Infant and Toddler Care (Q-CCIIT PD Tools) project summarizes the state of the field, highlighting the most promising approaches for enhancing caregiver interactions with caregivers serving infants and toddlers.
The literature review report for the Professional Development Tools to Improve the Quality of Infant and Toddler Care (Q-CCIIT PD Tools) project summarizes the state of the field, highlighting the most promising approaches for enhancing caregiver interactions with caregivers serving infants and toddlers.
The literature review report for the Professional Development Tools to Improve the Quality of Infant and Toddler Care (Q-CCIIT PD Tools) project summarizes the state of the field, highlighting the most promising approaches for enhancing caregiver interactions with caregivers serving infants and toddlers.
This report examines data from three successive cohorts of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (2006, 2009, and 2014) for trends in observed classroom quality and some teacher characteristics.
User's manual for FACES 2009 data set.
User's manual for FACES 2006 Data Set.
This report summarizes lessons learned from the design of Baby FACES 2009 and describes ways that future descriptive studies of Early Head Start may be designed to build on past work and address the questions and information needs for research, policy, and practice.
This article reviews data on aspects of the learning environment most closely associated with successful development of early academic competence, compares children from low socioeconomic backgrounds to children with higher socioeconomic status (SES) on access to academically auspicious environments,...
The Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES) is a study of Early Head Start programs designed to inform policy and programmatic decision making at both national and local levels.
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.
Mathematica’s descriptive study of Early Head Start (EHS) builds on the success of Head Start’s flagship study, the Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES).
This technical brief reports on the use of the Toddler Classroom Assessment Scoring System in the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES).
This report draws on Head Start Family Voices pilot data collected during the 2012-2013 program year.
Childhood obesity is a growing health problem in the United States that has captured the attention of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. The prevalence of overweight and obesity at all ages differs by race/ethnicity.
This set of tables describes the developmental outcomes and family backgrounds for children who entered Head Start for the first time in fall 2009 and completed one or two years of the program before entering kindergarten.
This report describes the cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development of children who take part in the Head Start program.
This set of tables describes children who entered Head Start for the first time in fall 2009 and completed a year in the program in spring 2010, as well as their family backgrounds and the classrooms and programs that serve them.
This report provides insight into the demographics of Head Start children and families; children's cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development and health during a year in the program; and key attributes of Head Start classrooms and programs for children who entered Head Start for the first...
Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP), an entity funded by First 5 LA, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide access to high quality preschool education to the children of Los Angeles County.
This research brief describes instructional practices that support English language learners and presents findings on how those practices are applied in Los Angeles Universal preschool center-based classrooms and family child care programs.
Using data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), this report provides a portrait of children entering Head Start for the first time in fall 2009, as well as of their family backgrounds, and the classrooms and programs that serve them.
Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP), funded by First 5 LA, sought to make voluntary, high-quality preschool available to every 4-year-old in Los Angeles County. To achieve high-quality preschools,
In this report we present our proposed design and analysis plan for a study of Quality Support Coaching in Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP) programs, to be implemented during phase 5 of the Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study (UPCOS-5).
In this report, we identify studies that link coaching and specific coaching models with outcomes for classrooms, providers, and children, while also highlighting critical aspects of coaching.
This summary highlights basic features of the FACES 2009 study design for those interested in learning more about the study or who have an interest in using the data for future analyses.
This brief profiles the second year in the program for 3-year-old Head Start children and families who were newly enrolled in fall 2006 and are still attending in spring 2008. These children begin their program experience scoring below norms across developmental areas.
This set of tables is designed to accompany a research brief which profiles the second year in the program for 3-year-old Head Start children and families who were newly enrolled in fall 2006 (ACF 2010b) and are still attending in spring 2008.
This set of tables is designed to accompany a research brief that describes the group of children who first entered Head Start in fall 2006 either as a 3-or 4-year-old, completed one or two years in the program, and attended kindergarten the year after graduating from Head Start.
This report describes the group of children who first entered Head Start in fall 2006 either as a 3- or 4- year old, completed one or two years in the program, and attended kindergarten the year after completing Head Start.
Using data from FACES 2006, this report profiles the 3- and 4-year-old Head Start children and families newly enrolled in fall 2006 and still attending in spring 2007.
This issue brief presents findings from the Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study, which examined a diverse group of Los Angeles preschoolers.
In 1998, California voters passed Proposition 10, the citizen initiative that levied a tax on tobacco products and earmarked the revenues to advance child and family development, health, education, and safety from pregnancy until children enter kindergarten.
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), a tool for measuring Head Start program performance at the national level, collects data on successive nationally representative cohorts of the children, their families, classrooms, and programs.
This set of tables is designed to accompany a research brief profiling the nationally representative sample of Head Start children and families newly enrolled in the program in fall 2006, their home environments, and the Head Start classroom environments they entered.
More than ever, getting our children ready to succeed at school is a national priority. Leaders, teachers, and parents want to learn about new ways to prepare children early so they can do well later in school and in life. Many want to know how to help children be prepared when they start kindergarten.
As the nation focuses more than ever on educational accountability and performance of public schools, policymakers, educators, and concerned parents are taking stock of developmental milestones children must reach to enter kindergarten prepared to succeed.
More than ever, getting our children ready to succeed at school is a national priority. Leaders, teachers, and parents want to learn about new ways to prepare children early so they can do well later in school and in life. Many want to know how to help children be prepared when they start kindergarten.
As a pioneer in broad-based marriage initiatives, the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI) has charted new territory. Lacking information to guide implementation designs and strategies for pursuing its goals, OMI planners enlisted the help of a range of research experts from around the country.
This paper describes a new tool that early childhood researchers and practitioners can use to assess how early childhood programs are helping children acquire the skills they need to become members of a multicultural society and the methodology used to develop that tool.
As the nation focuses increasingly on educational accountability and the performance of public schools, policymakers, educators, and concerned parents are taking stock of the developmental milestones children must reach before they enter kindergarten and are seeking ways to ensure that children come...
As the nation focuses increasingly on educational accountability and the performance of public schools, policymakers, educators, and concerned parents are taking stock of the developmental milestones children must reach before they enter kindergarten and are seeking ways to ensure that children come...
This report, the first in this series of analyses of kindergarten readiness in the demonstration communities, describes the school readiness and family circumstances of a representative sample of 150 entering kindergarten children residing in the East Yakima community in the fall of 2007.
This report, the first in this series of analyses of kindergarten readiness in the demonstration communities, describes the school readiness and family circumstances of a representative sample of 140 entering kindergarten children residing in the White Center community in the fall of 2007.
Over four years of implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System, a direct assessment of 4-year-olds in the year prior to kindergarten, Mathematica staff visited multiple nationally representative samples of programs, observed child assessments, and interviewed program staff.
First 5 LA contracted with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) and its partners to study the implementation of a newly funded universal preschool program operating in Los Angeles County.
The authors examine a century of rhetoric on the home/school relation and associated parent involvement. The review investigates how current ideas about this relationship and parent involvement might inhibit the realization of justice, equity, and excellence in education.
This CD-ROM contains restricted-use base year (9-month data collection) twin triad data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B).
This user's manual describes the design, instrumentation, coding methodology, and special issues pertaining to the twin triad data file from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort base year (9-month) data collection.
This report highlights information from a survey of Early Head Start programs that examined management structures and program services nationally. The report describes program approaches to service delivery, management and staffing, and partnerships.