Understanding Leadership in Early Care and Education: A Literature Review

This literature review explores what is known about what leadership looks like within center-based early care and education settings and how it functions to improve center quality and, in turn, children’s experiences and outcomes.

Challenges and Solutions to Conducting Intensive Studies in Early Care and Education Settings

This brief summarizes successful approaches to conducting intensive studies in early care and education (ECE) settings.

Aligning Federal Performance Indicators Across Programs Promoting Self-Sufficiency: Actionable Steps for Program Design and Practice

Part of the EMPOWERED study, this brief provides steps to help build a performance measurement framework to support program administrators and staff in using information to manage, improvement and coordinate programs and services.

Aligning Federal Performance Indicators Across Programs Promoting Self-Sufficiency: Key Considerations for Policymakers

Part of the EMPOWERED study, this brief provides four key considerations for creating a framework of performance indicators that can align with program goals and be used across human services and workforce programs.

Quality Ratings and System Characteristics: Patterns in the Round 1 Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge States

This brief describes early learning and development programs' ratings in tiered quality rating and improvement systems (TQRIS) in the nine states that received Round 1 Race to the Top―Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants.

Moving On Up? Program Quality Ratings Under Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge

This brief describes early learning and development programs’ participation and ratings in tiered quality rating and improvement systems (TQRIS) in the nine states that received Round 1 Race to the Top―Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants.

Aligning Federal Performance Indicators Across Programs Promoting Self-Sufficiency: Local Perspectives

This issue brief for the EMPOWERED study is based on three case studies and provides local perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for aligning performance indicators across a variety of federal programs promoting self-sufficiency.

Progress and Challenges in Developing Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems in the Round 1 Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge States (In Focus Brief)

This brief describes states’ progress in developing and implementing systems that rate early childhood education programs on quality and help them improve.

Progress and Challenges in Developing Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (TQRIS) in the Round 1 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) States

This report describes states’ progress in developing and implementing systems that rate early childhood education programs on quality and help them improve. It focuses on the nine states that received the Round 1 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grants.

Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education: A Review of the Literature

This report summarizes the findings of a literature review conducted in an effort to develop an instrument that reliably and consistently measures implementation and costs of high-quality education and care in center-based settings that serve children from birth to age 5.