Provides a foundation for more conceptually integrated approaches to early childhood care, education, and comprehensive services.

This brief is designed to support quality improvement (QI) efforts by describing the status of the evidence and presenting information that categorizes such efforts using a typology of QI models and targets.

This toolkit is an informational resource for state administrators, child care and early education practitioners, and other stakeholders on how QRISs work, how to plan and design QRIS evaluations, and why such evaluations are important.

This report presents findings from an exploratory analysis of administrative data from three QRISs. The analyses examine the prevalence of quality components across centers and how they combine to result in an overall rating level and to predict observed quality.