Communications strategies for advocates of early childhood education: A focus group report from Full Circle Associates
Results from two focus groups in which participants' reactions to a series of metaphors, frameworks, and labels for early education for children ages birth to six were recorded, including comparisons of responses of African American and white participants
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Early childhood education and the framing wars
An introductory essay to a collection of articles discussing how parents and other adults can begin to frame child care issues in the terms of child development and early education, and as community issues that require community solutions
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Effective language for discussing early childhood education and policy
A framework for the discussion of child care issues for child care and early education advocates, with a focus on the community issues and solutions
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Fact sheet: Percent of all non-parental child care hours by type of child care
A discussion of the child care arrangements of children under 6 years, and the proportion of all non-parental care hours spent with either care centers, paid care from non-relatives, or family, friend, and neighbor care, based on results from the National Household Education Survey
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Potential improvements to Ohio’s Step Up to Quality program: Quality-based costs to providers, families, and funding agencies [Executive summary]
A summary of an evaluation of the Quality Achievement Awards (QAA) in offsetting provider costs of meeting high quality child care standards, and an analysis of the costs of providing high quality services to participants in the Step Up to Quality (SUTQ) program, Ohio’s quality rating information system (QRIS)
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Public attitudes about early childhood care and education
A summary of public opinion survey results on child care policies, funding, quality, affordability, women in the labor force, and family values
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Supply, demand and accountability: Effective strategies to enhance the quality of early learning experiences through workforce improvement [Executive summary]
A summary of a discussion of strategies to be used for improving the quality of teaching and caregiving by early care and education staff, both nationally and for Washington State
Executive Summary
Why early ed benefits all of us
A discussion of metaphors, phraseology and components of rhetorical advocacy that could serve as methods for framing public discussions of early childhood education in order to achieve specific socio-political aims, written by scholars in the field of cognitive linguistics
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