Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Conducting research and proposing policy solutions aimed at improving how our nation prepares, supports, and rewards the early care and education workforce since 1999.
Marcy Whitebook
Having begun her professional life as an infant and toddler and preschool teacher, Marcy understands the relationship between appropriate preparation, support, and compensation for early educators and the quality of services for young children. Early in her career, Marcy and a handful of other teachers set out to improve early care and education services by securing rights, raises, and respect for the early childhood workforce. Prior to her current work as the founding director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, Marcy founded the Washington-based Center for the Child Care Workforce (CCW), an organization she began in 1977 as the Child Care Employee Project. She earned a master’s degree in Early Childhood Education from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Developmental Studies from the UCLA Graduate School of Education.
Publications by Marcy Whitebook
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In the News
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As pre-K teachers celebrate pay raises, day care union seizes the moment to reach more schools
Chalk Beat • August 20, 2019
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Child care providers push California to boost pay for early education teachers
EdSource • August 9, 2019
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Could California’s big investment in children and families be a model for the country?
The Hechinger Report • August 8, 2019
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California is working to improve early childhood education. But we need to take it even further
Sacramento Bee • August 6, 2019
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