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Download full textElizabeth Doran; Davis Straske; Natalie Reid; Charlotte Cabili; Tutrang Nguyen; Xinwei Li; Myah Scott; Aden Bhagwat; Will Ratner; Judy Cannon; Jeffrey Harrington; Addison Larson; Ashley Kopack Klein; Katie Gonzalez; Nikki Aikens; Sara Bernstein – Administration for Children & Families, 2024
Head Start is a national program that helps young children from families with low incomes prepare to succeed in school. It does this by working to promote children's early learning and health and their families' well-being. In 2021, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Federal Programs, Social Services, Low Income Students
Tutrang Nguyen; Davis Straske; Natalie Reid; Elizabeth Doran; Charlotte Cabili; Carla Chavez; Aden Bhagwat; Jeffrey Harrington; Addison Larson; Judy Cannon; Victoria Sims; Barbara Carlson; Ashley Kopack Klein; Sara Bernstein – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2024
The 2021-2022 Study builds on the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES). This report includes information on the 2021-2022 Study design and presents key findings from the study's spring 2022 data collection on Head Start children and families. The tables in this report describe children and families in spring 2022 as COVID-19…
Descriptors: Surveys, Family (Sociological Unit), Experience, Early Intervention
Anna Powell; Wanzi Muruvi; Lea J. E. Austin; Abby Copeman Petig – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2023
First 5 Los Angeles County partnered with the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) to explore the state of child care centers and family child care (FCC) providers. As part of the California Early Care and Education Workforce Study, CSCCE conducted surveys in 2020 and 2023 to measure both individual- and site-level factors. In…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Trend Analysis, Child Care, Child Caregivers
Schlieber, Marisa; Knight, Jenna; Adejumo, Tobi; Copeman Petig, Abby; Valencia López, Enrique; Pufall Jones, Elizabeth – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2022
Early educators are the key to quality early care and education (ECE) services, and there is broad consensus that high-quality care and learning environments for young children depend on educators who are skilled at nurturing children's development and learning. Yet, inadequate working conditions and low pay routinely hamper educators in their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Quality
Pratima A. Patil; Paula Gaviria Villarreal; Fernanda Q. Campbell; Birth to Eight Collaborative Data Committee; Sandy Kendall, Editor – Boston Foundation, 2024
In 2022, the Boston Opportunity Agenda, the Birth to Eight Collaborative and the City of Boston's Office of Early Childhood partnered in the development of this survey of hundreds of early education professionals in the city of Boston, and then expanded its reach to total more than 600 respondents across the state. In it, educators and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Caregivers, Preschool Teachers, Diversity
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2025
For 36 years, the "KIDS COUNT® Data Book" has provided a clear, consistent overview of children's well-being, using federal data collected across all 50 states. These reliable national- and state-level measures help leaders see where there is progress, where greater support is needed and which strategies are making a difference. By…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Well Being, Child Development, Child Health
McLean, Caitlin; Austin, Lea J. E.; Whitebook, Marcy; Olson, Krista L. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2021
The "Early Childhood Workforce Index" provides a state-by-state look at policies and conditions affecting the early care and education workforce. This biennial report has tracked state progress since 2016. This third, 2020 edition of the Index continues to track state policies in essential areas like workforce qualifications, work…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Force, Educational Policy, State Policy
Xue, Yange; Baxter, Cassandra; Jones, Christopher; Shah, Harshini; Caronongan, Pia; Aikens, Nikki; Bandel, Eileen; Cannon, Judy; Schellenberger, Kerry; Defnet, Amy; Vogel, Cheri; Atkins-Burnett, Sally – Administration for Children & Families, 2021
Early Head Start provides a comprehensive array of services for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers. The Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES) 2018 provides a wealth of information about Early Head Start programs, center-based or home-based services, teachers and home visitors, and the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Surveys
Chang, Gwang-Chol; Eck, Matthias; McOmish, Elspeth; Sass, Justine; Vargas Tamez, Carlos; Wallet, Peter; Imhof, Adolfo Gustavo; Montoya, Silvia; Li, Yifan; Antoninis, Manos; Murakami, Yuki; Zekrya, Lema; Dewan, Pragya; Mishra, Sakshi; Mizunoya, Suguru; Onam, Oscar; Reuge, Nicolas; Yao, Haogen; Yameogo, Jean Luc; Brossard, Matt; Dreesen, Thomas; Dsouza, Andrea; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kamei, Akito; Nagesh, Radhika; Nugroho, Anindita; Pontuschka, Rafael; Akmal, Maryam; Azevedo, João Pedro; Azzi-Huck, Kaliope; Cobo, Cristobal; Gilberto, Alison; Holla, Alaka; Shmis, Tigran; Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Wong, Yi Ning; Carvalho, António; Charbonnier, Eric; Doumet, Marie-Hélène; Heckmann, Corinne – UNICEF, 2021
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have collaborated in the third round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures, administered by the UNESCO…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
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Direct linkDoan, Sy; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Pandey, Rakesh; Woo, Ashley – RAND Corporation, 2023
The well-being and mental health of kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) public school teachers has been a topic of national concern during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In 2021 and 2022, teachers were twice as likely to report experiencing frequent job-related stress and difficulty coping with their job-related stress than the…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, State of the Art Reviews, Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2024
The 35th edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's "KIDS COUNT"® Data Book examines the unprecedented declines in student math and reading proficiency brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on education. The latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveals that between 2019 and 2022, fourth-grade reading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Children, Well Being
Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 2022
Beginning in 2011, Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) started publishing the Paterson Kids Count Data Book, a one-stop source for child well-being data on the state's third largest city. Paterson Kids Count includes the latest statistics, along with five-year trend data, in the following areas: demographics, family economic security,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Children, Demography, Family Income
Jung, Kwanghee; Barnett, W. Steven – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2021
To learn about the pandemic's impacts on young children's learning and development the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) developed a parent survey regarding children's home learning activities and preschool participation during the pandemic. This report presents key lessons from the spring 2021 preschool learning activities…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parents, Preschool Children
Powell, Anna; Montoya, Elena; Austin, Lea J. E.; Kim, Yoonjeon; Muruvi, Wanzi; Copeman Petig, Abby – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2023
Early care and education (ECE) programs for children prior to kindergarten in California are provided through a mixed delivery system that includes licensed home- and center-based programs as well as school settings. The requirements, experience, and supports for educators vary widely across settings, depending more on funding sources and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Whitebook, Marcy; McLean, Caitlin; Austin, Lea J. E. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2016
The State of the Early Childhood Workforce (SECW) Initiative is a groundbreaking multi-year project to shine a steady spotlight on the nation's early childhood workforce. The SECW Initiative is designed to challenge entrenched ideas and policies that maintain an inequitable and inadequate status quo for early educators and for the children and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Conditions, Geographic Location
