In 1991, the NICHD Study of
Early Child Care recruited more than 1,300 families and their newborn children at 10 locales throughout the country for a longitudinal study to determine the relationship between children's early experiences and their developmental outcomes.
Not exact matches
Focus group participants were
recruited across several settings via posters inviting participation in the study, at
child health clinics,
child care centres and
early learning centres, to obtain women with a range of experience, socioeconomic levels and occupations.
As part of his campaign plan for lifting
children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on
child care and
early - childhood education, guaranteeing health
care for all
children, and creating a new program to
recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.
It is the experience of many
early years and
child care programs across Ontario that qualified ECEs can not be
recruited to work in these under - resourced
early childhood environments that serve our youngest
children.
By establishing a provincial wage scale supported with appropriate public funding Ontario can
recruit and retain qualified
early childhood educators who will be better able to build stable and fulfilling careers in the
early years and
child care sector.
Particularly in regulated
child care,
early childhood educators are leaving the sector and replacements can not be
recruited, which has had an on - going negative impact on staff consistency and stability, and program quality.
A further decrease in working conditions will exacerbate service providers» ongoing challenge to
recruit and retain professionally educated
early childhood educators in
child care programs for younger
children.
SECC, administered by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, has also placed Scholar Coordinators at 2 - year colleges to
recruit and mentor
child care providers seeking credentials and degrees in
early childhood education required by the Reaching for the Stars program.