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State Registries of the Early Care and Education Workforce: A Review of Current Models and Options for California. Building California's Preschool for all Workforce. A Series of Policy Briefs
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Bellm, Dan; Whitebook, Marcy – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2004
The term "registry" has become a catchall phrase for various vehicles that states are using to build more coherent professional development systems for the early care and education (ECE) field. This policy brief presents the results of a recent nationwide survey of ECE workforce registries, brief profiles of registries in nine states, an…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Early Childhood Education, Profiles, Professional Development
Roots of Decline: How Government Policy Has De-Educated Teachers of Young Children
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Bellm, Dan; Whitebook, Marcy – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2006
The authors of this paper document how federal policy on child care and early education led to a decline in wages and education among staff in early childhood programs. The paper analyzes labor trends for the early care and education workforce over the past 25 years--notably, an overall decrease in educational qualifications, and persistent wage…
Descriptors: Employment, Qualifications, Public Policy, Young Children
Inside the Pre-K Classroom: A Study of Staffing and Stability in State-Funded Prekindergarten Programs.
Bellm, Dan; Burton, Alice; Whitebook, Marcy; Broatch, Linda; Young, Marci P. – 2002
In response to increasing concerns about preparing young children to succeed in the primary grades, many states have increased their investment in prekindergarten programs over the past decade. Noting that increased demand for prekindergarten education coincides with a staffing shortage in the early care and education, this study documented the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration), Delivery Systems, Educational Policy