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Sharp, Diana; Melton, Joshua A. – RMC Research Corporation, 2019
The Quality Early Education System (QEES) program is based on a vision where all children arrive at school with the benefit of high-quality positive life experiences that matter for brain development in all of the areas that play critical roles in school success. This vision is greatly needed in Hillsborough County, Florida, where data from 2018…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Clark, Rory McDowall; Baylis, Sue – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
Although frameworks now exist for quality provision for under-threes, discourses underpinning policy remain conflicted. The split between care and education is still firmly entrenched in provision and a gap remains between rhetoric and practice. This paper explores how Early Years Professional Status, which requires practitioners to engage…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, Females, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Freeman, Nancy K.; Feeney, Stephanie – Young Children, 2006
Today we often hear that early care and education is becoming or should become a profession. In this article, the authors discuss what it means to be a profession, and a professional and consider how these characteristics apply to the field of early care and education now and in the future. Professionals possess specialized knowledge and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Early Childhood Education, Occupational Mobility, Professional Recognition