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A Profile Of Child Care Services Offered At Land-Grant Institutions, Mary E. Bissonette
A Profile Of Child Care Services Offered At Land-Grant Institutions, Mary E. Bissonette
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
A survey was created and distributed to land-grant institutions to determine the availability and description of child care services at those institutions. Participants were 70 directors of child care centers or central administrators at land-grant institutions. Thirty-nine questions provided general demographic information, general information regarding child care programs at each institution, and specific information regarding administrative concerns and quality issues in child care (based on the components of quality from the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, 1984) in both full- and half-day programs. The results yielded information that all of us in a university setting may find compelling. Most …
Current Child Care Strategies Of Twenty-Five States And Summary Recommendations For Future Child Care Services In Utah Based On Recommendations From The Governor's Task Force On Child Care, Cheryl Elliot-Robinson
Current Child Care Strategies Of Twenty-Five States And Summary Recommendations For Future Child Care Services In Utah Based On Recommendations From The Governor's Task Force On Child Care, Cheryl Elliot-Robinson
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Social and employment changes have occurred in the United States over the past twenty years that have had a drastic impact on the "traditional" American family. Americans now live in an era of inflation and economic change in which a second family income is often a necessity just to maintain.an adequate standard of living. Mothers' are no longer waiting until their youngest child enters elementary school to enter or re-enter the labor force. By 1985, 57% of mothers' of children under the age of six were in the labor force, whereas in 1950, only 12% were employed (Department of Labor, …