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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.
The Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (BASE) knowledge review series provides an overview of the existing literature and data on CCEE workforce dynamics and offers recommendations for future research and data collection.
This is a list of publications created as of April 2023 by the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Implementation Research and Evaluation grant program Phase II grant recipients.
The Early Care and Education Research Scholars (ECE): Child Care Dissertation Grant program supports dissertation research on child care policy issues in partnership with State Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) agencies or administrators.
The Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) measure administration and scoring guide provides information to support users in administering and scoring the ExCELS measure.
Explore this new OPRE-funded Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) measure that was developed to capture three leadership elements in center-based early care and education settings, including who participates in leadership, what individuals bring to leadership, and what center staff do as leaders.
This snapshot uses longitudinal data from 2019, 2021, and 2022 in the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to examine the mental health and well-being of the center-based CCEE workforce from 2019, by race and ethnicity.