As a result of the generally low quality of child care in the United States, quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) are proliferating in the child-care

This publication explores how countries can develop and use these systems to enhance service and staff quality for the benefit of child development.

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In the past fifteen years, Brazil has made great strides in increasing its population's access to early child education, with both preschool and creche enrollme