This brief describes three themes from a literature review: the field’s need for more and better data, the role of higher education in CCEE workforce dynamics, and the mismatch between the needs of a diverse CCEE workforce and existing strategies.
What Do We Know About Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce? Cross-Cutting Themes from a Literature Review, Environmental Scan, and Data Scan
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