Child Care for Low-Income Families Summary of Two Workshops (1995) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Introduction
Introduction
Pages 1-3
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 1... ...
Over half of all infants under age ~ are now in some form of nonmaternal care, with the majority enrolled for 30 hours or more per week (Hofferth et al., 1991~. The high costs of child care, as well as increasing understanding of the importance of children's early experiences for their future clevelopment, have also heightened national attention to .
|
From page 2... ...
by the National Research Council (Hayes et al., ~ 990) , · examined the current status of the child care delivery system and the extent to which the issues raised from this perspective are addressed by 1 1 research, and · considered promising directions for future research on child care and its articulation with the information needs of policy experts, program administrators, and practitioners.
|
From page 3... ...
. The workshops were clesigned to provide a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas among researchers studying chilct care from differing disciplinary vantage points and to integrate knowlecige about child care that is being generated by empirical research, national and regional demonstration projects, and community intervention efforts.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.