Resources
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The Impact of Cohort Learning: A Case Study of an ECEPTS Early Educator Apprenticeship
This report describes results from a case study focused on the Early Educator Apprenticeship at the YMCA of the East Bay in Northern California.
Published 2024
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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 target to positively impact the workforce, and the underlying structure needed to implement them successfully.
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 higher education in CCEE workforce dynamics, and the mismatch between the needs of a diverse CCEE workforce and existing strategies.
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 costs of increased ratios.
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 of the ECE profession, provides an overview of CPL models in other fields, and highlights examples of existing ECE CPL practice.
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 own children regardless of household income. This employment benefit was designed to make child care jobs more competitive and increase overall access to care.
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 for state and local governments to support HBCC.
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 Pay Equity Fund in the District of Columbia. Findings describe the perceived of the payments on the child care field. Early educators share that the Pay Equity Fund helps advance fair pay that reflects their…
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 strengthened to deepen learning for participants.
Published 2023