The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce Challenges and Opportunities: A Workshop Report (2012) / Chapter Skim
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. These arrangements can include center-based child care, preschool, family child care centers, or informal care arrangements with friends, family, and neighbors, both paid 1
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However, opportunities to nurture healthy development and early learning occur in all of these settings, and some argue that children in all settings should experience effective practices regardless of the primary purpose of the care arrangement (NAEYC, 2009)
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Participants included researchers, policy analysts, association representatives, university faculty and administrators, leaders of state early childhood programs, adminis trators of ECCE programs, individuals involved with professional devel opment, and federal staff from various agencies. The primary purpose of the workshop was to provide an adequate description of the ECCE workforce, outlining the parameters that define that population.
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These materials include two papers that summarize a review of the data on the ECCE workforce and provide relevant background information on selected federal workforce data systems. The presentations and other materials from the workshop may be found on the National Academies website at http://www.bocyf.org/ early_childcare_workforce_workshop.html.
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