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Gardner, Madelyn; Melnick, Hanna; Meloy, Beth; Barajas, Jessica – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
High-quality early childhood education (ECE) begins with well-prepared, highly qualified educators. This brief offers practitioners and policymakers an opportunity to learn from promising programs that recruit and prepare racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse cohorts of educators to teach in programs serving children birth…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Labor Force Development
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Gardner, Madelyn; Melnick, Hanna; Melroy, Beth; Barajas, Jessica – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
High-quality early childhood education (ECE) begins with well-prepared, highly qualified educators. This brief offers practitioners and policymakers an opportunity to learn from promising programs that recruit and prepare racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse cohorts of educators to teach in programs serving children birth…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy
Sherfinski, Melissa – Teachers College Press, 2023
Most practitioners and scholars agree that critical and reflective early childhood and elementary teachers are foundational for children's holistic growth and development. Yet current policies focused on elevating testing and performativity are contributing to student and teacher anxiety and alienation. This book offers a counternarrative to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Place Based Education, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Gardner, Madelyn; Melnick, Hanna; Meloy, Beth; Barajas, Jessica – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
A number of states are considering policy proposals to update credential or degree requirements for early educators. Practitioners, policy experts, and researchers have expressed concern, however, that well-intentioned policies to raise educator qualifications without sufficient supports may have negative consequences for the adequacy; stability;…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Labor Force Development
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Jung, Sunyoung; Stone, Susan – Children & Schools, 2008
This secondary analysis of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, a randomized study of program participation of children and families in Early Head Start (that is, enrolled in programming prior to children's first birthdays) investigated sociodemographic (race and ethnicity, income level, and maternal education level) and program…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Child Rearing, Social Work, Program Evaluation