Getting to positive outcomes for children in child care : a summary of two workshops / Board on Children, Youth, and Families ; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council and Institutes of Medicine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Children, Youth, and Families.

National Research Council (U.S.)

Series:

Compass series (Washington, D.C.)

The compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child care services--United States.

Child care services.

Child development--United States.

Child development.

Child welfare--United States.

Child welfare.

Performance--Measurement.

Performance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As a result of the heightened public and political attention and the movement toward standards and accountability, performance measurement has emerged as an important concern in the early childhood care and education field. At the request of the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened two workshops to learn from existing efforts to develop performance measures for early childhood care and education, to consider what would be involved in developing and implementing an effective performance measurement system for this field, and to delineate some critical next steps for moving such an effort forward.

Contents:

Front Matter; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Overview of the Workshops; 3 Lessons Learned from Other Policy Domains; 4 Current Efforts to Establish Measures and Indicators; References; APPENDIX A Workshop Agendas; APPENDIX B Workshop Participants

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-51103-8

OCLC:

817959072