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Teaching the Teachers: Early Childhood Education Programs Aim to Fill Shortages, Meet Growing Demand
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Direct linkFinkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2022
Community college early childhood education programs prepare students for a career path that enjoys plenty of demand, although that's at least in part due to low wages that make hiring and retaining good workers a challenge. That challenge has become more acute during the COVID-19 pandemic, given the literally hands-on nature of the work. Demand…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Smith, Julia; Cuesta, Guadalupe – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2020
A labor force of migrant farmworkers, mostly of Latino origin, largely support the agriculture industry in the US. While migrant labor is essential in the modern food system, food insecurity remains high among migrant farmworkers. Presented are the results from a survey on food insecurity, access, and farm to preschool involving 32 farmworker…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Hunger, Food, Young Children
UnidosUS, 2020
Black and Latinx educators make up a critical portion of the early child education (ECE) field; 31% of the center-based workforce and about half of those employed in Head Start. These diverse educators are from communities where the impacts of the pandemic have been the most detrimental -- according to the Centers for Disease Control and…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Minority Group Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers
Download full textGelatt, Julia; Adams, Gina; Huerta, Sandra – Urban Institute, 2014
In recent years, many states have expanded their state-funded prekindergarten programs, drawing on evidence that public investments in early childhood education bring substantial returns in children's educational trajectories and a more skilled future workforce. Evidence also suggests that returns to early education may be larger for children of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Kindergarten, Access to Education, Barriers
Gnezda, Terry; Robison, Susan – State Legislative Report, 1986
This legislative report presents the findings of a 1986 telephone survey of states that have enacted state-funded pre-kindergarten early childhood education programs. The survey was designed to collect data related to the legislative authority, intent, and oversight of the early childhood education programs and to gain information on the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Preschool Education
Seppanen, Patricia; And Others – 1995
A national survey of state-articulated student goals and outcomes led to the analysis of documents from four states for correspondence with the outcomes specified for age 3 in the conceptual model of the National Center on Educational Outcomes for Students with Disabilities (NCEO). In the survey, 36 states (including the District of Columbia)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
