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Recent Work (2003)
As considered, this report examined the workforce challenges that would face us if the state built its system. The paper provided a detailed analysis of these emerging workforce issues, intended to guide policy makers, planners and advocates in asking the right questions as they designed and developed a preschool system for California.
    Cover page: Universal Preschool in California: An Overview of Workforce Issues
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    Recent Work (2006)
    This report documents recent groundbreaking efforts in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, CA, including challenges faced and lessons learned, as a guide for other counties and institutions seeking to improve professional development in the early care and education field.
      Cover page: Clearing a Career Path: Lessons from Two Communities in Promoting Higher Education Access for the Early Care and Education Workforce
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      Recent Work (2004)
      Noting that it has been generally recognized that the quality of services, and their benefits for young children, are closely intertwined with the qualifications, stability and compensation of the early care and education workforce, this report looks at the potential impact on publicly funded compensation for the early care and education workforce. It identifies the policy choices facing California and other states and the consequences of failing to adequately address compensation issues.
        Cover page: Compensation and Comparable Worth: What Lies Ahead for California’s Preschool Teachers?
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        Recent Work (2006)
        This report analyzes labor trends for the early care and education workforce over the past 25 years – notably, an overall decrease in educational qualifications, and persistent wage stagnation – in the light of federal and state policy, and makes a series of recommendations for reversing these downward trends. Losing Ground in Early Childhood Education: Declining Workforce Qualifications in an Expanding Industry, 1979-2004 by Stephen Herzenberg, Mark Price, and David Bradley (2005) is the paper that prompted this policy analysis.
          Cover page: Roots of Decline: How Government Policy Has De-Educated Teachers of Young Children
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          Recent Work (2008)
          Using data from the California Early Care and Education Workforce Study, this policy brief finds that the ethnic and linguistic diversity of California’s Early Care and Education (ECE) workforce is stratified by educational level and job role. In other words, diversity is disproportionately concentrated in some areas of the field. The brief discusses the implications of these findings for workforce development, higher education, and the ability of ECE programs to address the needs of diverse children and families.
            Cover page: Diversity and Stratification in California’s ECE Workforce
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            Recent Work (2007)
            Using data from the California Early Care and Education Workforce Study, this policy brief focuses on disparities in staff professional preparation, stability, and diversity between licensed child care centers that receive public funding solely through vouchers, and those that receive it through a contract with Head Start or the California Department of Education.
              Cover page: Disparities in California’s Child Care Subsidy System: A Look at Teacher Education, Stability and Diversity
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              Recent Work (2002)
              This study documents the current state of staff qualifications, stability, turnover and compensation in state-funded prekindergarten programs. It also identifies conditions under which Pre-K initiatives promote a more skilled and stable, and better compensated, early care and education workforce.
                Cover page: Inside the Pre-K Classroom: A Study of Staffing and Stability in State-Funded Pre-K Programs
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                Recent Work (2010)

                During the Year 2 interviews of the Learning Together study, the students resoundingly reported that the cohort model enabled them to access and succeed in a B.A.-level education in a way that would not otherwise have been possible. The students reported progress in overcoming the challenges described in the Year 1 report, and decreasing their reliance on some of the program supports as they progressed through the program. The students also identified the importance of employer support in successfully pursuing their educational goals.

                The Learning Together  study focuses on four California counties’ (Alameda, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, and San Francisco) efforts to expand bachelor’s degree opportunities in early care and education (ECE) for working adults. The student cohort model – in which small groups of ECE students with similar interests and characteristics pursue a bachelor’s degree together and receive targeted support services – has emerged across the country.

                The Learning Together study is supported by: First 5 Alameda County-Every Child Counts, First 5 Santa Barbara County, First 5 San Francisco, the WestEd – E3 Institute, and the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation.

                  Cover page: Learning Together: A Study of Six B.A. Completion Cohort Programs in ECE (Year 2 Report)
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                  Recent Work (2005)

                  This report presents the results of an inventory of nearly all (98.5%) of California institutions of higher education that train adults to teach children under the age of five, including certificate, associate, bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. programs.

                  This study is linked to a national study of Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Programs in the US, led by researchers at the FPG Child Development Institute. Access their reports:

                  -National Report

                  -State Reports

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                  Cover page: Time to Revamp and Expand: Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Programs in California's Institutions of Higher Education
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                  Recent Work (2004)
                  This report examines the impact on the early care and education workforce engendered by California’s movement towards universal preschool in 2004. At this critical time the attention of policy makers and program planners turned increasingly toward how to ensure a well-trained, stable, and linguistically and culturally diverse teaching workforce to staff high quality preschool programs. This report discusses the appropriate education and training standards for preschool teachers, the capacity of higher education institutions in the state to meet the growing demand for B.A. trained early childhood educators, and reports on the experiences of other states.
                    Cover page: Teacher Credentialing in Early Care and Education: Prospects for Universal Preschool in California, and Lessons from Other States
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