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Christina M. Stephens; Danielle A. Crosby; Julia Mendez Smith – Grantee Submission, 2024
Center-based early care and education (ECE) is important for promoting positive early development and supporting families by providing child care so parents can work. However, the center-based supply varies substantially in terms of funding sources, indicators of quality, and services offered; and many families experience a lack of equitable…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Young Children
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Cui, Jiashan; Natzke, Luke – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
This report presents data on the early childhood care and education arrangements for children in the United States from birth through the age of 5 who were not yet enrolled in kindergarten by 2019. The report also presents data on selected family activities. These data represent circumstances before the implementation of coronavirus pandemic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children, Family Role
Campbell, Fernanda Q.; Patil, Pratima A. – Boston Foundation, 2019
Over the past three years, the Boston Birth to Eight Collaborative has convened more than 200 individuals and organizations from across the early childhood field--center and family-based providers, pediatricians, public health researchers, hospitals, family engagement organizations, and parents--to ensure all children are ready for sustained…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Access to Education, Supply and Demand, Child Care
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Atmore, Eric; van Niekerk, Lauren-Jayne; Ashley-Cooper, Michaela – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2012
In this review article, the context of young children in South Africa in 2012 is described and the main challenges affecting children and the early childhood development sector (ECD) in South Africa are investigated. A situation analysis of ECD in South Africa was undertaken using South African government ECD policy and programme implementation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Child Development