Resource Library

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.

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

Understand different types of professional development strategies and how they can help state/territory leaders reach their goals.

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.

Understand different models of coordinated services used across the United States and how to improve service coordination for families.

Research agenda for examining the impacts of COVID-19 on child care and early education (CCEE), including young children, families, the CCEE workforce, CCEE programs, and the broader CCEE system.

This resource guide provides information for researchers about administrative data collected on federal policies and programs that (in whole or part) support young children with disabilities.

Recent federal, state, and local policies and initiatives focus on increasing access to high-quality ECE for all families. Given the prevalence and potential importance of these initiatives for families and children, it is useful for the field to take stock of how access to ECE is conceptualized and measured and to understand the extent to which context, purposes, and available indicators shape the assessment of access.

This report describes the ways in which individual characteristics and factors at the program and system levels are associated with individual teachers’ and caregivers’ participation in PD in a nationally representative sample of ECE teachers and caregivers.