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| Family child care home | Child care that is provided in a private home. |
| Child care centers | full-daychild care facilities that focus on basic nutritional, social, emotional, intellectual, and physical needs. |
| Custodial care | Type child care that focuses primarily on meeting the child's physical needs. |
| Montessori approach | Schools provide children freedom within limits by a rather structured approach, and a fixed method in which materials are presented. |
| Head start | A program developed by the federal goverment to strengthen the academic skill of children from low-income homes, and designed mainly for four-and five-year-olds. |
| School-age child care programs | Programs often sponsored by school, houses of worship, or child care centers that provide care for children before and/or after school. |
| Checking-in services | Program assigning workers to call children in self-care to make sure there are no problems. |
| Parent cooperatives | Child care programs that formed and run by parents who wish to take part in thein children's preschool experience. |
| Laboratory Schools | Schools located on a postsecondary or college campus with a primary purpose of training future teachers and serving as a study group for research. |
| Universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) | A statesponsored program designed to introduce three-and four-year-old children to a literary-rich environment. |
| Accredited | Having a certification that states a set of standards has been met. |
