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Whitebook, Marcy; Schlieber, Marisa; Hankey, Aline; Austin, Lea J. E.; Philipp, George – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2018
Early educators often do not have even basic expectations of working conditions -- such as program policies providing for payment for planning time, staff meetings, and professional development; a salary schedule accounting for experience and varied levels of education; and provision of health, retirement, sick-, and vacation-leave benefits that…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Background, Teacher Salaries
Whitebook, Marcy; Ryan, Sharon; Kipnis, Fran; Sakai, Laura – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2008
In a series of New Jersey Supreme Court decisions known as Abbott v. Burke, the 28 (now 31) urban school districts serving the state's poorest students were ordered to create systems of high-quality preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, beginning in the 1999-2000 school year. The Abbott Preschool Program now serves approximately…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children
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Gerber, Emily B.; Whitebook, Marcy; Weinstein, Rhona S. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007
This study examined the extent to which characteristics of early childhood teachers and settings predicted observed teacher sensitivity. Participants included 41 head teachers at child care centers located in Northern California. Accreditation status, center size, and program quality were uniquely associated with teacher sensitivity. Accreditation…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Care Centers, Enrollment, Depression (Psychology)