Achieving a high-quality preschool teachers corps: A focus on California
An issue brief discussing issues related to increasing California's preschool teachers' effectiveness, including the recruitment of young Hispanic Americans, job requirements, and funding for professional education
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Aiming away: New Zealand child care supervisors' responses (2001-2002)
A study of child care supervisors’ perceptions of the purposes of their child care services, such as nurturing children, helping children learn, working with parents and community, and cultural advocacy, and their rankings of the importance of a list of stated purposes, based on the questionnaire responses of 78 New Zealand child care supervisors
Reports & Papers
Apples, giraffes, and Martin Luther King: Curriculum policy in a kindergarten classroom
An observational study of how a kindergarten teacher combined her knowledge and beliefs about early education with four state, local, and national curriculum initiatives, including No Child Left Behind and the National Association for the Education of Young Children's accreditation standards
Reports & Papers
Approaching the problem of early childhood teacher turnover: Universal pre-K teachers' work attitudes and turnover intentions and their relationship to policy-amenable teacher characteristics
An examination of universal prekindergarten teachers' work attitudes and turnover intentions in terms of their relations with teacher characteristics, public and institutional policies, and job position in the program
Reports & Papers
Assessing the post-secondary early childhood teacher preparation programs in Florida
An exploration of aspects of early childhood degree programs in Florida, including program characteristics, coursework and practica experiences provided to students, and challenges faced by faculty members in meeting the development needs of the early childhood workforce
Reports & Papers
The association between the occupational stress of early childhood teachers and their beliefs and practices concerning the assessment of young children
A survey-based examination of the relations among preschool teachers' occupational stress and their beliefs and practices in terms of assessment of young children
Reports & Papers
Benefits rewards & support: Incentives to build quality & reduce turnover in the Iowa child care workforce
An examination of strategies to reduce turnover and increase retention in the child care workforce in Iowa, including increased professional development opportunities, wages, and benefits
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Benefits rewards & support: Incentives to build quality & reduce turnover in the Iowa child care workforce [Executive summary]
A summary of an examination of strategies to reduce turnover and increase retention in the child care workforce in Iowa, including increased professional development opportunities, wages, and benefits
Executive Summary
Capturing promising practices
A presentation of strategies for the recruitment and retention of youth workers, including those working in out-of-school time programs, based on interviews with 20 leaders of primarily community-based programs
Reports & Papers
CARES Project: Riverside County: Matching Funds for Retention program implementation study report: Year I
A report on the planning, structure and implementation of a retention incentive program for child care providers in one California county
Reports & Papers
CARES Project: Stanislaus County: Matching Funds for Retention program implementation study report: Year I
A report on the planning, structure and implementation of a retention incentive program for child care providers in one California county
Reports & Papers
The child abuse potential inventory as a predictor of job performance for child care workers
An exploration of the use of the Child Abuse Potential (CAP) inventory to predict child care worker quality and job performance, based on a sample of 62 child care workers, aged 25 through 68 years, associated with the Alabama Baptist Children's Homes and Family Ministries (ABCHFM)
Reports & Papers
The child care crisis: Why the United States government should overhaul the current system and how increasing the wages and professionalism of child care workers benefits all Americans
A discussion of systemic problems in child care industry, and the socio-economic causes and consequences of these flaws
Reports & Papers
Child care workforce recruitment and retention: A challenge for quality and supply
An inquiry into the correlation between the recruitment and retention of qualified teachers and providers’ ability to supply quality early childhood programs
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Child Development Corps: Siskiyou County: Matching Funds for Retention program implementation study report: Year II
A report on the planning, structure and implementation in the second year of a retention incentive program for child care providers in one rural California county
Reports & Papers
Early childhood teachers in contexts of power: Empowerment and a voice
A critical case study of of teacher's percieved empowerment when faced with the imposition of changes to curriculum, policy, and practice, based on interviews with eight Tasmanian early childhood and elementary level teachers
Reports & Papers
Early education 2002: Status report for the Greater Kansas City area
An overview of building an infrastructure for high quality early education in Missouri, including community wide access to quality child care, workforce retention and funding the system
Other
Education--a joint task for parents, kindergarten teachers and kindergarten student teachers
A qualitative study examining the perceptions of parents, kindergarten teachers, and kindergarten student teachers regarding education in Finland
Reports & Papers
Evaluating a rural-based early childhood intervention service
An inquiry into the perceptions of both parents and caregivers on the quality of child care services, based on surveys with parents, caregivers, and other local service providers in New South Wales, Australia
Reports & Papers
An evaluation of the SaMCARES program: Round 9 (2008-2009)
Findings from an evaluation of SaMCARES, an intervention program to increase the retention and improve the quality of the early childhood education workforce in San Mateo County, California, based on information from a survey of and database records on program participants
Reports & Papers
An evaluation of the SaMCARES program: Round 9 (2008-2009) [Executive summary]
A summary of findings from an evaluation of SaMCARES, an intervention program to increase the retention and improve the quality of the early childhood education workforce in San Mateo County, California, based on information from a survey of and database records on program participants
Executive Summary
Evaluation plan 2000-2002: Bay Area Child-Care Retention Incentive programs: Developed in cooperation with Alameda and San Francisco Counties
A description of a plan to evaluate two child care retention incentive (CRI) programs in Alameda and San Francisco counties
Reports & Papers
Evaluation plan: Matching Funds for Retention program
An outline by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) of a research plan to conduct a study evaluating the effectiveness of the matching of state funds in the retention of child care workers in California
Other
Executive summary: Recruitment and retention challenges and strategies
A summary of an examination of Canadian early childhood education and care workforce recruitment and retention strategies from an economic and human resource management perspective
Executive Summary
Factors impact job satisfaction and commitment in the early childhood workforce
Highlights of findings from an investigation of the job satisfaction and commitment of early childhood educators, based on a survey of 3,579 teachers, adminstrators, and directors of early childhood programs across all 50 states and the District of Columbia
Fact Sheets & Briefs
