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Understanding the Child Care and Early Education Workforce: The Need for More and Better Data
This brief summarizes the findings from the data scan related to the child care and early education workforce.
Published 2024
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Influences on the Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of the Child Care and Early Education Workforce A Conceptual Framework
This report lays out a conceptual framework describing workforce dynamics and five levers of change that workforce development strategies can […]
Published 2024
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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
This brief describes three themes from a literature review: the field’s need for more and better data, the role of […]
Published 2024
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Ratios and Group Sizes in Child Care Matter for Babies
This brief about the impact of group size and ratios in child care settings and for facts about the hidden […]
Published 2025
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Credit Where Credit is Due Expanding Credit for Prior Learning in ECE Higher Education Programs
This initial report from NAEYC explores the purpose of credit for prior learning (CPL) and its importance within the context […]
Published 2024
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Supporting Child Care Workers as Parents: How the Kentucky Subsidy Income Exclusion for Child Care Employees Helps Increase Access to Child Care
This report discusses how Kentucky implemented an innovative policy allowing child care workers to receive child care subsidies for their […]
Published 2024
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Primer: Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care
This report discusses the crucial role of home-based child care (HBCC) within the broader child care system and outlines strategies […]
Published 2024
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Wage Supplements Strengthen the Child Care Workforce: Reflections on the DC Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund
This fact sheet shares 2023 survey and focus group findings from early educators eligible for from the Early Childhood Educator […]
Published 2025
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A Snapshot of ECE Apprenticeship Programs
This brief identifies key features of existing apprenticeship programs across the United State to explain how program quality can be […]
Published 2023
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The Shifting Supply of Regulated Family Child Care in the U.S.: A Literature Review and Conceptual Model
This literature review and conceptual model examine research on the factors that may contribute to the decrease of regulated FCC […]
Published 2023