Workforce Recruitment & Retention Archives - Early Educator Investment Collaborative

RAND Report Highlights Unique Challenges Facing Hawaii’s Early Child Care Workforce

January 3, 2023

“The early child care education workforce was strained even before the pandemic. Poor pay and benefits not only hurt recruitment and retention, but demoralized providers. While early childhood educators across the country are feeling the burden…” Continued

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NEW Research on the History of Racial Inequities in ECE Workforce Compensation, Preparation, and Stability

February 28, 2022

A new report from Child Trends commissioned by The Collaborative, Mary Pauper: A Historical Exploration of Early Care and Education Compensation, Policy, and Solutions, maps the history of systemic racism in the U.S. and how it has influenced early childhood education (ECE) policy and practice, with a particular focus on educator pay and benefits, preparation,… Continued

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Op-Ed: America’s approach to early childhood education is completely unsustainable

February 12, 2022

“Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, alarming attrition and turnover in the early education workforce has gotten even worse. Prior to the pandemic, turnover in the field was already as high as…” Continued

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