Many family child care providers operate with little outside support. This guide paints a picture of high-quality family child care, describing daily routines, mealtimes, how the home is arranged, materials and equipment, and other features that go beyond the important steps of registration,...

This report finds that the typical Food Stamp client is quite satisfied with services, although misperceptions about eligibility deter many eligible households from participating, and costs to comply with program requirements are significant.

Read the final report from a large-scale, rigorous study examining how four math curricula affect achievement across two years—from first through second grades. The curricula were (1) Investigations in Number, Data, and Space; (2) Math Expressions; (3) Saxon Math; and (4) Scott...

The goal of the project was to assist ASPE in developing a research agenda for studying home and community-based service use among people with AIDS. The project had three components: (1) a review of the recent literature describing the delivery and financing of home and community-based services...

This brief, the fifth in a series on critical issues involved in caring for children with special health care needs, notes that about 60 percent of all children have health insurance through a parent's employer, but coverage of services for children with special health care needs varies....

Finds that Medicaid-enrolled children participating in the WIC program had greater use of all types of health care services, compared with Medicaid-enrolled children who were not WIC participants. Notes that children enrolled in Medicaid who participate in WIC are linked to the health care...

In 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created the Beta-MAX data system to improve the timeliness of Medicaid Analytic Extract (MAX) data while retaining many of the benefits of MAX data for research. This report compares Beta-MAX data with MAX data for 2009 for 32 states with...