Publications
Explore our publications from the last two decades.
California’s early educators can’t afford to retire
May 11, 2022 • Blog • By Anna Powell
Early care and education (ECE) teachers face chronically low wages, both in California and around the country. However, low earnings are not the only reason early educators worry about…
Child Care Sector Jobs: BLS Analysis
May 10, 2022 • Brief • By Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE)
Employment recovery in the early care and education sector remains stagnant. While some jobs returned, the workforce is 11 percent smaller than at the outset of the pandemic, as wages…
May 5, 2022 • Peer-Reviewed Article • By Yoonjeon Kim, Elena Montoya, Sean Doocy, Lea J.E. Austin and Marcy Whitebook
In this article, published in the 3rd Quarter 2022 volume of Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Dr. Kim, Ms. Montoya, and co-authors highlight how the impacts of COVID-19 systematically varied between…
How to restore California’s ailing child care system: Pay the teachers
April 27, 2022 • Blog • By Lea J.E. Austin
Covid-19 brought California’s already-ailing child care system to its knees. If you work in child care or are a parent, you are intimately familiar with this reality. If you are…
“The Forgotten Ones”—The Economic Well-Being of Early Educators During COVID-19
February 16, 2022 • Brief • By Anna Powell, Raúl Chávez, Lea J.E. Austin, Elena Montoya, Yoonjeon Kim and Abby Copeman Petig
This report provides a closer look at the well-being of the early care and education (ECE) workforce in California, using data collected by the Center for the Study of Child…
Education and Experience of the California ECE Workforce
February 7, 2022 • Data Snapshot • By Yoonjeon Kim, Lea J.E. Austin, Elena Montoya and Anna Powell
This publication is part of CSCCE’s 2020 California Early Care and Education (ECE) Workforce Study, the first comprehensive study of early educators in the state in…