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Laura E. Wallace; Christine Lippard; Faith M. Molthen; Ji-Young Choi; Heather Rouse – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
In March 2020, when public health stay home orders began in order to halt the spread of COVID-19, child care as an industry was drastically and abruptly impacted. This public health emergency highlighted the weaknesses in the child care system in the United States. This study investigated the changes in operations cost, child enrollment and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Rachel Hanson; John Bobrowski – National Center for Education Statistics, 2024
This First Look report introduces new National Household Education Survey data that provides estimates for children in the United States from birth through the age of 5 who were not yet enrolled in kindergarten by 2023 on early childhood care and education arrangements. The report also presents data on parents' ratings of factors that affected…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Attainment, National Surveys, Preschool Children
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Christina M. Stephens; Danielle A. Crosby; Julia Mendez Smith – Grantee Submission, 2024
Center-based early care and education (ECE) is important for promoting positive early development and supporting families by providing child care so parents can work. However, the center-based supply varies substantially in terms of funding sources, indicators of quality, and services offered; and many families experience a lack of equitable…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Young Children
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Karen Babbs Hollett – Educational Policy, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread closures of early care and education (ECE) facilities that negatively impacted children's socioemotional, behavioral, and academic development. Policies permitting child care centers to remain open by obtaining waivers from closure directives involved varying levels of administrative burden. This study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Early Childhood Education, Social Emotional Learning
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Lynn A. Karoly; Stephanie J. Walsh; Phoebe Rose Levine – RAND Corporation, 2024
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Care, requires states to use information about the provider cost of child care to inform the setting of payment rates under the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) program. This requirement is consistent with the growing recognition that…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, State Policy, Costs
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Anne Partika; Sarah Gerard; Todd Grindal; Gullnar Syed; Morgan Solender – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background & Context: Accurate, reliable, and scalable measurement of classroom quality is critical to ensure that children benefit from early childhood programs. Early childhood classroom quality is most commonly measured using classroom observation tools serving multiple purposes including (1) teacher support (e.g., coaching, professional…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Classroom Observation Techniques, Barriers, Faculty Development