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Whitebook, Marcy; McLean, Caitlin – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2017
Many pre-K teachers across the nation are expected to earn a bachelor's degree, similar to their peers teaching older children. Yet salaries and benefits remain consistently lower for pre-K teachers than for elementary school teachers. Increasingly, compensation parity is perceived as an achievable policy goal rather than a lofty ideal, yet there…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Compensation (Remuneration), Child Caregivers, Teacher Salaries
Whitebook, Marcy; And Others – 1993
In 1988, the National Child Care Staffing Study (NCCSS) exposed the minimally adequate and deteriorating quality that characterized many of our nation's full-day child care centers and linked this poor quality to the inadequate compensation available to child care teaching staff. This report describes a follow-up study done in 1992 to provide an…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Whitebook, Marcy; Howes, Carollee; Phillips, Deborah – 1998
In 1988, the National Child Care Staffing Study first gathered information on staffing and quality from a sample of child care centers in five metropolitan areas--Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Phoenix, and Seattle--and returned for updated information in 1992. In 1997, directors of the original sample of centers still in operation were contacted again…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration)