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This Guidebook addresses the development of a common understanding and approach to measuring access to early care and education.

The Guidebook provides information in four sections:..

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.

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

This research brief summarizes the measures used in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems validation studies...

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....

This research review addresses the question:

What evidence do we have from the literature on associations between infant/toddler teacher and caregiver preparation (e.g., education, credentials, etc.) and quality of caregiving and child outcomes?...

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.

The descriptive brief provides an overview of the qualifications and the professional development activities of the nation’s infant/toddler workforce, based on representative data collected by the National Survey of Early Care and Education. The goal of this brief is to help the field better understand the strengths and needs of the infant/toddler workforce in center-based as well as home-based early care and education programs...

These two publications address the issues facing early care and education providers because of monitoring by multiple agencies and organizations...

Explore the survey instrument used to capture information about Head Start Grantees’ and Delegates’ Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic