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Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education (Paperback)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Financing Early Care and Education with a Highly Qualified Workforce; Edited by …
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High-quality early care and education for children from birth to
kindergarten entry is critical to positive child development and
has the potential to generate economic returns, which benefit not
only children and their families but society at large. Despite the
great promise of early care and education, it has been financed in
such a way that high-quality early care and education have only
been available to a fraction of the families needing and desiring
it and does little to further develop the early-care-and-education
(ECE) workforce. It is neither sustainable nor adequate to provide
the quality of care and learning that children and families need?a
shortfall that further perpetuates and drives inequality.
Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education outlines a
framework for a funding strategy that will provide reliable,
accessible high-quality early care and education for young children
from birth to kindergarten entry, including a highly qualified and
adequately compensated workforce that is consistent with the vision
outlined in the 2015 report, Transforming the Workforce for
Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation. The
recommendations of this report are based on essential features of
child development and early learning, and on principles for
high-quality professional practice at the levels of individual
practitioners, practice environments, leadership, systems,
policies, and resource allocation. Table of Contents Front Matter
Summary 1 Introduction 2 Landscape of Early Care and Education
Financing 3 Current Financing for Early Care and Education:
Financing a Highly Qualified Workforce (Principle 1) 4 Current
Financing for Early Care and Education: Affordability and Equitable
Access (Principle 2) 5 Current Financing for Early Care and
Education: Ensuring High Quality Across Settings 6 Estimating the
Cost of High-Quality Early Care and Education 7 A Vision for
Financing Early Care and Education References Appendix A:
Methodology and Policy Choices and Assumptions for Cost Estimation
Appendix B: Cost Estimation Models Appendix C: Determining a
Reasonable Share of Costs for Families to Pay Appendix D:
Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff
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Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Exploring the Opportunity Gap for Young Children from Birth to Age Eight; Edited by Rebekah Hutton, …
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R1,331
Discovery Miles 13 310
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Many young children in the United States are thriving and have
access to the conditions and resources they need to grow up
healthy. However, a substantial number of young children face more
challenging conditions such as: poverty; food insecurity; exposure
to violence; and inadequate access to health care, well-funded
quality schools, and mental health care. In many cases, the
historical origins of unequal access to crucial supports for
children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development are
rooted in policies that intentionally segregated and limited
various populations' access to resources and create opportunity
gaps that intertwine and compound to affect academic, health, and
economic outcomes over an individual's life course and across
generations. Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children,
identifies and describes the causes, costs, and effects of the
opportunity gap in young children and explores how disparities in
access to quality educational experiences, health care, and
positive developmental experiences from birth through age eight
intersect with key academic, health, and economic outcomes. The
report identifies drivers of these gaps in three key
domains?education, mental health, and physical health?and offers
recommendations for policy makers for addressing these gaps so that
all children in the United States have the opportunity to thrive.
In addition, the report offers a detailed set of recommendations
for policy makers, practitioners, community organizations, and
philanthropic organizations to reduce opportunity gaps in
education, health, and social-emotional development. Table of
Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 Opportunity Gaps in
Early Care and Education Experienced by Children from Birth to
Pre-K 3 Opportunity Gaps in the Education Experienced by Children
in Grades K3 4 Opportunity Gaps in the Physical Health and Health
Care Experienced by Young Children and Their Parents 5 Opportunity
Gaps in the Social-Emotional Development, Well-being, and Mental
Health Experienced by Young Children 6 The Economic Costs of the
Opportunity Gap 7 Research, Policy, and Practice: Contexts and
Efforts to Address Opportunity Gaps 8 Key Conclusions and
Recommendations APPENDIX A APPENDIX B APPENDIX C COMMITTEE MEMBER
AND STAFF BIOSKETCHES
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