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This report combines survey data from the 2012 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) with administrative lists of home-based child care providers from 2018 to analyze factors that shape the attrition of listed home-based providers from administrative lists.
Explore OPRE's research and evaluation technical assistance resources to learn how to employ cutting-edge methods to your research and evaluation projects.
This highlight summarizes research on subsidy stability, defines key terms, describes potential administrative and policy obstacles to subsidy use, and shares resources for CCEE leaders interested in improving their subsidy programs.
This short-form product describes the value of competency frameworks and competency-based professional development for infant/toddler teachers and caregivers.
This White paper from the Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High-Quality Early Care and Education project presents results from an experiment of tokens of appreciation to support survey response among staff in child care and early education centers
This chartbook uses data from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education Center-based Survey and 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education Workforce to describe classrooms with young children.
This chartbook uses data from the 2012 NSECE and 2019 NSECE to describe the center-based ECE workforce that served children five and under not yet in kindergarten
Explore this brief from the OPRE-funded Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) to understand what is known about what leadership looks like in center-based early care and education settings and how it functions to improve center quality and, in turn, children’s experiences and outcomes.