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Conjunto de herramientas de participación y empoderamiento para educadoras de la primera infancia

January 13, 2023 • Report

Introducción La pandemia de COVID-19 ha ayudado a resaltar algo que todas las personas que trabajan en el cuidado y educación de la primera infancia (early care and education, ECE,…

Child Care Sector Jobs: BLS Analysis

January 9, 2023 • Brief • By Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE)

Monthly analysis of the latest BLS data.

Early Educator Engagement and Empowerment (E4) Toolkit

December 20, 2022 • Report

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has helped highlight something that those working in early care and education (ECE) have known all along:…

Teaching Transitional Kindergarten: A Snapshot of the Teacher Experience Before UTK Expansion

December 6, 2022 • Report • By Elena Montoya, Anna Powell, Lea J.E. Austin, Yoonjeon Kim, Wanzi Muruvi and Abby Copeman Petig

In the fall of 2020, CSCCE surveyed almost 300 TK teachers in classrooms throughout California as part of the California Early Care and Education Workforce Study. This brief provides…

Supporting Early Educator Compensation Through Strong Data Collection

November 7, 2022 • Blog • By Krista Olson, Annie Dade and Caitlin McLean

Early educators provide a crucial public good, yet are unacceptably underpaid. In light of poverty-level wages that fuel a workforce shortage, some states have used…

Uncovering the Role of Early Childhood in Black Women’s Clubs Work Towards Racial and Gender Justice

November 7, 2022 • Brief • By Rachel E. Williams

Between 1890 and 1895, Black women’s clubs emerged to address the oppressive realities facing Black people in the Age of Jim Crow. The…

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January 26

Expanding the number of child care subsidies available to families will remain an empty promise if there isn’t a workforce available to staff classrooms. Happy to contribute to this @hechingerreport story uplifting the field’s growing capacity crisis. https://hechingerreport.org/the-problem-child-care-subsidies-cant-solve-the-shrinking-provider-pool/

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