Chapter 2 Content Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Operated for charitable purposes, often sponsored by an agency.
  2. 3. Privately owned businesses in local communities that rely on parent feeds to operate.
  3. 4. Certification that an early childhood program has met a set of professional standards.
  4. 10. Preschools, usually serving children from 3 to 5 years old, that are typically formed and run by parents.
  5. 11. State-sponsored early childhood education programs that are designed for 3 and 4 year old children and provide a high-quality, literary-rich environment. The goal is to enable every child with skills needed to succeed in school.
  6. 12. Services that hire workers who cal the home to check whether the child has arrived safely.
  7. 14. A state-provided certificate granting permission to operate an early childhood center or a family child care home.
  8. 15. are designed for children of working families.
  9. 16. Standards set to ensure that uniform and safe practices are followed.
  10. 17. Established standards to assess and acknowledge program quality.
Down
  1. 1. Tools that are agreed upon by state boards of education with the assistance of educators in the field.
  2. 5. Full-day child care faciliites that focus on basic nutritional, social, emotional, intellectual, and physical needs for children from birth to five years of age.
  3. 6. Programs often sponsored by schools, houses of worship, or child care centers that provide care for children before and/or after school.
  4. 7. Children who lack a regular, fixed, or nighttime residence.
  5. 8. Schools located on a postsecondary or college campus with a primary purpose of training future teachers and serving as a study group for research.
  6. 9. Based on self-education in multiage groups. Schools provide children freedom within limits by a rather structured approach, and a fixed method in which materials are presented.
  7. 13. a comprehensive child development program developed by the federal government to strengthen the academic skills; provides a variety of medical and social services to promote healthy deveopment for children in low-income families, and designed maily for four-and five-year-olds.