Publications
Explore our publications from the last two decades.
Pennsylvania Early Childhood Higher Education Inventory
October 3, 2022 • Report • By Abby Copeman Petig, Jenna Knight, Lea J.E. Austin and Raúl Chávez
This report is part of our Early Childhood Higher Education Inventory. This report describes the early childhood degree programs offered in Pennsylvania, focusing on variations in program…
The Kindergarten Lessons We Never Learned
September 15, 2022 • Brief • By Marcy Whitebook, Claudia Alvarenga and Barbara Zheutlin
Introduction Today, free public kindergarten for five-year-old children is available in every state and community throughout the United States, and public education is routinely referred to as K-12. But…
Working Toward Early Childhood Education Equity
September 15, 2022 • Brief • By Marcy Whitebook and Rachel E. Williams
Early care and education (ECE) in the United States began as reforms to address the needs of young children in the 19th century. Women, in particular, have always been…
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…
September 15, 2022 • Brief • By Ashley Williams, Peggy Haack and Marcy Whitebook
For more than a century, the U.S. early care and education (ECE) field has ridden waves of teacher activism aimed at creating a more just and equitable…
Uncovering the Role of Early Childhood in Black Women’s Clubs Work Towards Racial and Gender Justice
September 15, 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 first national,…