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The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) includes data from four integrated, nationally representative surveys conducted in 2012 to understand the supply of and demand for Early Care and Education in the United States. This fact sheet on non-standard hours uses data from the NSECE to describe the flexibility of available ECE in the U.S., providing nationally representative estimates of the percentage of ECE providers serving young children (aged birth through 5 years)...

The purpose of the Use of Technology to Support Head Start Practice project was to review the knowledge base related to the use of technology to support the practice of early childhood professionals who work directly with children and families. The results were intended to fill a knowledge gap regarding what technologies are currently available to early childhood programs; how practitioners are using these technologies on a regular basis; and the barriers to and facilitators for...

Explore ACF’s State Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Policies Database that describe variations in key aspects of states’ definitions of child maltreatment and policies for reporting, screening, and investigating child abuse and neglect across the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

To address the gap in knowledge about how children and adolescents from disadvantaged backgrounds perceive their family's relative socioeconomic position and their ideas about economic inequality, this brief presents findings on children’s and adolescents’ perceptions of their families’ experiences of living in poverty and their views about wealth, poverty, and economic inequality.

Discover a brief and volume of profiles describing characteristics of a selection of online, competency-based professional development systems for teachers and caregivers of infants and toddlers.

Explore this OPRE-funded brief that examines the first descriptive picture of grant recipients that converted enrollment slots from Head Start to Early Head Start between 2019 and 2021.

This brief discusses possible ways to strengthen the implementation and evaluation of HMRE programs for youth, as it presents several practical considerations to inform future evaluations and increase the chances for programs to show evidence of favorable impacts on their intended outcomes.

This brief describes how the Youth Transitions Partnership in Alameda County, California revised their program enrollment materials to improve youth enrollment and early engagement during the Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) grant program funded by the Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).

OPRE’s Narrow Cost Analysis series aims to help CCDF Lead Agencies by defining narrow cost analysis and offering examples and expert advice on building cost models, doing cost surveys, and using cost data when setting payment rates.

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.