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Professional training for day care providers is being increasingly recognized as an avenue to improve the quality of child care. This article briefly describes two projects that offered training to urban day care centers. Based on the combined five years of training implemented, the relative utility of various training strategies is examined.
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This paper is an expanded and modified form of two presentations by the authors at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Detroit, Michigan, December, 1981. The Immersion Learning Project was supported by a two-year Grant (G 000080014) from the Special Education Program area, U.S. Department of Education, to Wayne State University. Beverly N. Parke provided data collection and analysis services. Delma Bannelos assisted with training and on-site evaluation. The Preschool Nutrition Education Training Project was supported by a three-year grant (0959-15) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Michigan Department of Education, to the Health Care Institute at Wayne State University. Muriel Wagner, Sally Poux, and Dorothy Vaughan participated as nutrition trainers and consultants.
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Kaplan, M.G., Buescher, T.M. Inservice training for urban day care centers: An evaluation of training strategies. Child Youth Care Forum 15, 38–49 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01118992
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