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Download full textMcLean, Caitlin; Austin, Lea J. E.; Whitebook, Marcy; Olson, Krista L. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2021
The "Early Childhood Workforce Index" provides a state-by-state look at policies and conditions affecting the early care and education workforce. This biennial report has tracked state progress since 2016. This third, 2020 edition of the Index continues to track state policies in essential areas like workforce qualifications, work…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Force, Educational Policy, State Policy
Whitebook, Marcy; McLean, Caitlin; Austin, Lea J. E.; Edwards, Bethany – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2018
The 2016 inaugural edition of the biennial "Early Childhood Workforce Index" represented initial efforts to establish a baseline description of early childhood employment conditions and policies on a state-by-state basis in order to improve early childhood jobs. This 2018 edition, as well as future editions, will focus on tracking…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Force, Educational Policy, Preschool Teachers
Whitebook, Marcy; McLean, Caitlin; Austin, Lea J. E. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2016
The State of the Early Childhood Workforce (SECW) Initiative is a groundbreaking multi-year project to shine a steady spotlight on the nation's early childhood workforce. The SECW Initiative is designed to challenge entrenched ideas and policies that maintain an inequitable and inadequate status quo for early educators and for the children and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Conditions, Geographic Location
Austin, Lea J. E.; Whitebook, Marcy; Connors, Maia; Darrah, Rory – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2011
Reflecting the growing momentum in support of quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) as a key strategy to improve early care and education quality, significant amounts of public dollars have been devoted to their development and implementation. In this brief, the authors report on their investigation of both quality rating and improvement…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Caregivers, Preschool Teachers
Whitebook, Marcy; Gomby, Deanna; Bellm, Dan; Sakai, Laura; Kipnis, Fran – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2009
This paper aims to broaden the discussion about effective teacher preparation by exploring three hypotheses designed to expand the early care and education (ECE) research agenda: (1) Both the content and the method of delivery of an educational degree influence teacher practices; (2) Teachers' ability to apply knowledge and skills effectively…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Work Environment
Whitebook, Marcy; Ginsburg, Gerri – 1983
Results of a nonrandom nationwide survey of 89 child care workers in 20 states concerning work-related health and safety conditions confirm that similar hazardous conditions exist in child care programs throughout the nation. Results also confirm that concern and anger about such conditions and their potential consequences are widespread among…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Classroom Environment, Day Care Centers, Diseases
Whitebook, Marcy; Pettygrove, Willa – 1983
This pamphlet was written to assist child care employees in conducting a survey of the salaries, benefits, and working conditions of individuals and/or day care centers. The following topics are discussed: reasons for making a survey; limits of surveys; personnel, time, and money involved; sample selection and informaton collection strategies;…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Fringe Benefits
Whitebook, Marcy – 2001
In order to improve the quality of child care services in the United States, the child care workforce must be better compensated. This paper describes the movement to improve child care compensation over the last 25 years as viewed by one of the leaders in that effort. The paper focuses on three distinct phases of this history: (1) 1970-1985, the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Child Caregivers
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Whitebook, Marcy – Children Today, 1981
Researchers interviewed 95 staff members of San Francisco child care centers to learn about salaries, working conditions and job satisfaction. Explores why the turnover rate at most child care centers in the United States is higher than the national average for most workers in human services fields. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Burnout, Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers, Job Satisfaction
Whitebook, Marcy; And Others – 1993
In 1988, the National Child Care Staffing Study (NCCSS) exposed the minimally adequate and deteriorating quality that characterized many of our nation's full-day child care centers and linked this poor quality to the inadequate compensation available to child care teaching staff. This report describes a follow-up study done in 1992 to provide an…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Whitebook, Marcy; Phillips, Deborah – 1999
Reliable child care services are widely viewed as pivotal to the success of welfare reform because most welfare recipients depend on child care in order to seek, gain, and maintain employment. Others of the working poor need it to avoid dependency on public assistance. As a result, current policy decisions and research efforts are largely focused…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Children
Whitebook, Marcy; And Others – 1989
This national study explored the effects of teachers and their working conditions on the caliber of center-based child care in the United States. Study goals were to: (1) compare center-based child care services in 1988 with those of 1977; (2) examine relations among child care staff characteristics, adult work environments, and quality of child…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Whitebook, Marcy; And Others – 1989
The National Child Care Staffing Study (NCCSS) was designed to explore how child care teaching staff and their working conditions affect the caliber of center-based child care. Four major policy questions were addressed: (1) Who teaches in America's child care centers? (2) What do they contribute to the quality of care provided? (3) Do centers…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Whitebook, Marcy; Howes, Carollee – 1980
This study investigates "burn-out" and turnover among workers in child care settings. A total of 95 persons working in 32 child care centers in San Francisco were interviewed by telephone. One-fifth of the centers in the city were represented and both public and private centers were included. Each category of center was proportinately…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Budgets, Burnout, Day Care Centers
