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Download full textEmily R. Wiegand; Robert M. Goerge; Victor Porcelli; Cynthia Miller – Administration for Children & Families, 2024
High-quality, stable child care and early education (CCEE) can have lasting, positive impacts on children. However, the challenges of recruiting, strengthening, and retaining the CCEE workforce are well documented. CCEE educators typically have low levels of formal education and compensation; limited opportunities for education, training, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Labor Force Development, Early Childhood Teachers
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Direct linkDelia Vicente; Melanie Venegas; Alma D. Guerrero – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Educators shape the quality of early education programs and are essential to children's learning and healthy development. However, the early childhood education field is often challenged in retaining educational staff. Using a descriptive research design this study explores turnover and retention through the voices of Head Start and Early Head…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Early Intervention
Laura Bellows; Daphna Bassok; Anna J. Markowitz – Educational Researcher, 2022
This study uses longitudinal data to follow a cohort (N = 4,465) of all early childhood education teachers working in publicly funded, center-based settings in Louisiana over a 3-year period. We present the proportion of teachers still at their sites across six time points between 2016 and 2019, providing the first statewide, longitudinal…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Persistence, Early Childhood Teachers
Jacoby, Jennifer Wallace; Corwin-Renner, Allegra – Journal of Career Development, 2022
Early care and education programs like Head Start provide a critical foundation for later achievement for children from vulnerable communities. Notably, recruiting and retaining bilingual teachers is an ongoing struggle for many Head Start agencies. Assistant teachers are more likely to be bilingual than their lead teacher counterparts (Jacoby, in…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services
Jones, Christopher; Shah, Harshini; Xue, Yange – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Adults who provide care and education to young children have a great responsibility, as children's early environment and relationships have profound and lifelong effects. The Early Head Start conceptual framework recognizes that the characteristics of teachers and home visitors who deliver core Early Head Start services to children and families…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Home Visits
Kendall LaParo; Anna Shaw-Amoah – Research for Action, 2024
This report explores the dramatic increase in Head Start teacher turnover during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) from 2010 to 2022, the study investigates trends in teacher turnover across all Head Start program types and examines the reasons behind teacher departures. The report finds that…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Faculty Mobility
