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This highlight provides a framework to understand child care and early education workforce well-being and describes examples of research-based initiatives that can be implemented to promote well-being.
This brief summarizes the research evidence on how high-quality ECE benefits all young children, as well as key subgroups, such as children from families experiencing low household income, children who are dual language learners, and children with disabilities.
Read a summary of research about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected child care and early education programs and the families they serve in the first year of the pandemic.
This white paper addresses the 2018 revision of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). Federal statistical agencies use the SOC to classify workers and jobs into occupational categories. ACF’s proposals in this paper include changes to the titles, definitions, and placement of the occupations involving the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce....