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Download full textPolicy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
This report reviews and analyzes California policies that are designed to support early learning in children from birth through age five years. The analysis is limited to early childhood (EC) education-related programs and supports that are likely to directly affect children's cognitive and social development. The information in the report comes…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Students with Disabilities, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Education
Whitebook, Marcy; King, Elizabeth; Philipp, George; Sakai, Laura – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2016
Early childhood teachers routinely face insufficient teaching supports and inadequate rewards for their education and commitment (e.g., low pay, lack of professional supports, and lack of benefits). These shortcomings contribute to poor program quality and fuel high levels of teacher turnover, preventing program improvement and making it…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Educational Practices, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
Jacobson, Linda – New America Foundation, 2009
This report on the state's early education system offers a dark assessment, but not a fatalistic one, especially if leaders can seize and build on reform efforts that have already started in patches throughout the state. There's much more that policymakers, advocates and the state can--and should--be doing to work toward a day when all California…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Primary Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
Fuller, Bruce; Livas, Alejandra; Bridges, Margaret – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ1), 2006
The new call for a universal preschool system is prompting an important policy debate across California. How preschooling is expanded and improved with limited public resources depends on several key issues. The hopeful ideals of "preschool for all"--with children beginning school ready to learn--spark enthusiasm and broaden public will.…
Descriptors: Non English Speaking, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, School Readiness
Bellm, Dan; Whitebook, Marcy – 2003
This report analyzes emerging workforce issues as California develops a universal preschool system, focusing on service delivery mechanisms, workforce standards for staff qualifications and compensation, and professional development and higher education system capacity. The review covers current conditions, emerging questions, research findings,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compensation (Remuneration), Definitions, Delivery Systems
Laurence, Wendy; Hass, Bob; Burr, Elizabeth; Fuller, Bruce; Gardner, Mary; Hayward, Gerald; Kuboyama, Emlei – 2002
This policy brief examines programs from California and elsewhere in the United States for attracting and retaining quality preschool and child-care staff and places these programs within the broader context of K-12 reforms. While this brief is specifically aimed at early-childhood-education planners and policymakers, it contains information for…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Contract Salaries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
