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Download full textCaitlin McLean; Lea J. E. Austin; Anna Powell; Sophia Jaggi; Yoonjeon Kim; Jenna Knight; Silvia Muñoz; Marisa Schlieber – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2024
Since 2016, the biennial "Early Childhood Workforce Index" has tracked the status of Early childhood educators (ECE) workforce policies in order to identify promising practices for improving early educator jobs and changes over time. This fourth edition includes new analyses as well as updated policy recommendations. Highlights include:…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Force, Early Childhood Teachers, Educational Policy
Palmer, Bryan – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
In recent years, there has been substantial interest in micro-credentials in post-secondary education. In November 2019, Australian skills ministers agreed to fast-track work exploring micro-credentials in the national vocational education and training (VET) system, with the aim of ensuring that the system responds more effectively to the needs of…
Descriptors: Credentials, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Minicourses
Peer reviewedLevin, Stephanie; Scott, Caitlin; Yang, Man; Leung, Melanie; Bradley, Kathryn – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
Strong and stable school leadership is critical for success in schools across the nation. The duties of the principal are many and varied. Principals, for example, can oversee instruction, purchase curricular materials and supplies, and provide professional learning and supports for teachers. Carrying out these duties effectively makes a…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Attitudes, Persistence
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
Public Policy Forum, 2008
A survey of 414 child care providers in southeastern Wisconsin reveals that cost as well as low wages and lack of benefits for workers can constrain providers from pursuing improvements to child-care quality. Of survey respondents, approximately half of whom are home-based and half center-based, 13% have at least three of five structural factors…
Descriptors: Wages, Low Income, Achievement Tests, Public Policy
