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Washington State Department of Early Learning, 2015
The Department of Early Learning (DEL) is directed by the state legislature to use currently collected data to compare state-funded child care compensation rates to market rates, cross-compare child care programs in other states and make biennial recommendations to the legislature on compensation models to attract high quality professionals. For…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, State Aid, Child Care, Compensation (Remuneration)
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
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Brown, Sally – School Science Review, 2014
The Curriculum for Excellence and new National Qualifications offer innovative reform, based on widely supported ideas and aims, for Scottish preschool, primary and secondary education levels. "Objectives and syllabuses" for science are replaced by "experiences and outcomes". Most strikingly, central prescription makes way for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Moloney, Mary – Irish Educational Studies, 2015
Caring for and educating young children is highly skilled and complex, and is dependent upon the educator's education and training, work environment, salary and work benefits. This paper which draws upon two annual BA ECEC Graduate Occupational Profile Surveys undertaken in 2013 and 2014, explores the perceptions of graduates about seeking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Early Childhood Education, Student Attitudes
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Ang, Lynn – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
Research has shown that the quality of early years provisions is directly linked to the quality of leadership and management of early years settings. The extant research also shows that the quality of preschool settings are almost always characterised by strong leadership, where leaders and practitioners share a clear vision of the setting's…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, Early Childhood Education, Qualifications, Leadership Qualities
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Hartas, Dimitra – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
Parental support with children's learning is considered to be one pathway through which socio-economic factors influence child competencies. Utilising a national longitudinal sample from the Millennium Cohort Study, this study examined the relationship between home learning and parents' socio-economic status and their impact on young children's…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Socioeconomic Status, Learning Activities, Family Income