Facilities for Early Childhood and Out-of-School Time Programs: Standards and Research

Completed in 2011

Principal Investigator: Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D.; Georgia Hall, Ph.D; and Nancy Marshall, Ed.D.

Funded by the Children’s Investment Fund

workfamilieschildren_small20The project team developed a standards inventory to assess the quality of facilities housing Early Care and Education (ECE) and out-of-school-time (OST) programs for children across Massachusetts. The project team also developed a measurement tool to be used to study 140 licensed child care facilities across the state of Massachusetts.

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