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Delaware’s Quality Improvement System

Through a contract with the Delaware Department of Education, DIEEC informs and implements a rigorous continuous quality improvement system to support early care and education programs and professionals in achieving and maintaining … Read more


Home-Based Child Care Research Initiative

The Home-Based Child Care (HBCC) Initiative at the Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood (DIEEC) is led by Dr. Juliet Bromer, one of the nation’s foremost experts in this area. For … Read more


Center for Home-Based Child Care Research

Project description: The Center for Home-Based Child Care Research supports research focused on licensed, unlicensed, and license-exempt family child care and family, friend, and neighbor care settings in states, territories, and/or local … Read more


Understanding Child Diversity in Centers Accepting Child Care Subsidies and Links with State CCDF Policies

This project uses national data to examine the degree to which child care centers accepting subsidies serve demographically diverse children. The federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) provides subsidies for families … Read more


Everyday Quality

The aim of the Everyday Quality (EDQ) project is to develop a practical, user-friendly measure offamily child care (FCC) quality that meaningfully captures quality in a home-based setting andcan be used to … Read more