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Selected Publications and Presentations of Kate Tarrant:

Publications

Vecchiotti, S. & Tarrant, K. (forthcoming). Charting the course for child care and Head Start: A community needs analysis of early care and education in New York City. New York: Administration for Children's Services, Division of Child Care and Head Start.

Tarrant, K., Greenberg, E.H., Kagan, S.L., & Kauerz, K. (forthcoming). The early care and education workforce. In Feeney, S. (Ed.), Continuing issues in early childhood education (3rd ed). Columbus, OH: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall.

Johnson, A.D., Tarrant, K., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2007). Early childhood education and care: An opportunity to enhance the lives of poor children. In D. R. Crane & T.B. Heaton (Eds.), Handbook of Families and Poverty. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Kagan, S.L., Kauerz, K., & Tarrant, K. (2007). The early care and education teaching workforce at the fulcrum: An agenda for reform. New York: Teachers College Press.

Rigby, E., Tarrant, K., & Neuman, M. J. (2007). Alternative policy designs and the socio-political construction of childcare. Contemporary issues in early childhood, 8(2), 98-108.

Kagan, S.L., Tarrant, K., Carson, A., & Kauerz, K. (2006). The early care and education teaching workforce: At the fulcrum (summary report). Cornerstones for Kids. Available at:
http://www.cornerstones4kids.org/images/teachers_report_0107.pdf .

Chaudry, A., Tarrant, K., & Asher, J. (2005). Rethinking child care: An integrated plan for early childhood development in New York City. New York: Administration for Children's Services, Division of Child Care and Head Start. Available at: http://www.nyc.gov/html/acs/downloads/pdf/rethinking_new.pdf

Kagan, S. L., Tarrant, K., & Berliner, A. (2005). Building a professional development system in South Carolina: Review and analysis of other states' experiences. New York: Columbia University: National Center for Children and Families.

Kagan, S.L., Britto, P.R., Kauerz, K., Tarrant, K. (2005) Washington State Early Learning and Development Benchmarks. Available at: http://www.del.wa.gov/pdf/ccel/BenchmarksColor.pdf

Presentations

Recchia, S., Beck, L., Esposito, A., & Tarrant, K. (2008, March 26). Preparing highly qualified early childhood teachers: Diverse field experiences as a catalyst for transformative and integrative thinking. Presentation at the American Education Research Association Annual Conference, New York, NY.

Kagan, S.L., Kauerz, K.A., & Tarrant, K. (June, 2007). The early care and education teaching workforce at the fulcrum: An agenda for reform. Presentation at the National Association for the Education of Young Children National Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development, Pittsburgh, PA.

Tarrant, K. & Razza, R. (2007, March 30). Do mothers' early care and education priorities predict their children's care arrangements? An analysis using the ECLS-B study. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Crow, K., & Tarrant, K. (2005, June 20). Costing the care economy. Paper presented at the Institute for Women's Policy Research Annual Conference, “When Women Gain, So Does the World,” Washington, DC.

Rigby, E., Tarrant, K., Kagan, S.L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2005, March 8-10). State policy variation: Common approaches to early care and education policy. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Child Care Bureau Research Consortium, Baltimore, MD.