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This brief draws from data collected in the 2019 NSECE Center-based Provider Survey and Wave 1 of the NSECE COVID-19 Longitudinal Follow-up. In the NSECE, a center-based provider delivers CCEE services to children aged five and under, not yet in kindergarten, at a single location. This brief describes calendar year 2020 experiences of CCEE centers that were operating in 2019, including changes in their enrollments and their instructional staff.

This report identifies actionable steps that state and territory child care administrators, local CCEE leaders, and researchers can take to advance measurement of equitable CCEE access.

This brief examines the challenges Head Start children and their families faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the types of support they received or needed, and how both were associated with their well-being.

This brief draws on data from the 2021—2022 Study to examine the strategies programs used to improve staff retention and well-being.

This brief describes rates of child care disruptions and responses to disruptions during the pandemic by key household characteristics for households with children under age 5.

This brief explores Head Start teachers’ health, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, stress, and job satisfaction; the supports programs offered and the ones teachers used; and the associations between teachers’ well-being and those supports. It draws on data collected in fall 2021 and spring 2022 from the 2021-2022 Study of Family and Staff Well-Being in Head Start FACES Programs (the 2021-2022 Study), after nearly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

This snapshot presents findings from analyses of the 2012 and 2019 NSECE home-based surveys about the use of out-of-school time care for school-aged children.

This landscape analysis presents findings on school-age child care data sources, their strengths, and gaps.

This snapshot presents updated estimates of the 2012 NSECE snapshot that examines the reasons why households engage in CCEE searchers and make CCEE search decisions.

Learn research-based answers to key questions about families’ access to public pre-K programs.