Publications by Rosemarie Vardell
Rights, Raises, and Respect: The Early Educator Compensation Movement (1972 to 2000)
September 15, 2022 • Brief • By Peggy Haack, Rosemarie Vardell and Marcy Whitebook
Early educators who engaged in the compensation movement in the 1970s and through the 1990s were not the first to decry the low wages and poor working conditions…
May 3, 2021 • Blog • By Peggy Haack, Rosemarie Vardell and Marcy Whitebook
Who were the Worthy Wagers? Where did they come from? Maybe your mother or grandmother was one. Worthy Wagers know stories of how a movement began. Don’t you wish you…
Worthy Wage Day 2019: From Aspiration to Reality
May 1, 2019 • Blog • By Peggy Haack, Rosemarie Vardell and Marcy Whitebook
On the first Worthy Wage Day in 1992, the three of us joined with other early childhood teachers and providers in marches and rallies held across the country, calling…