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Educating Early Educators: Voices of Early Childhood Educators Participating in Formal Education as Part of a Statewide Quality Rating Improvement System
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Griess, Carolyn J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Early childhood education has gained national attention as a tool for increasing outcomes and reducing risks for young children and their families. In an effort to ensure that early childhood programs are of high quality, many states are implementing systems that identify levels of criteria that denote excellence. Pennsylvania has adopted such a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Qualifications
Associations with Teacher Education, Experience, and Program Characteristics in Quality Early Childhood Programming
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Lawrence, Debra L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Researchers have investigated the impact of teacher education and experience on child care quality; however, findings have been inconsistent. This study used archived data originating from Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS program. The sample included 617 infant or toddler classrooms with 1356 teachers and 887 preschool classrooms with 1915 teachers.…
Descriptors: Child Care, Educational Theories, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children