Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "Meeting quality benchmarks in center-based early care and education: A latent class analysis," in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. This paper identifies five subgroups of child care and early education centers on the basis of the combinations of quality indicators met in a nationally representative sample of centers. Findings suggest that features of programs, their communities, and public policies are predictors of subgroup membership.
