Research has found that the credit-based education of child care providers is an important factor linked with high-quality early education programs. Unfortunately, with high turnover, low compensation, and increasing higher education costs, it is difficult for the early education workforce to gain these credits. In a recent paper by Wisconsin Early Childhood Association and Wisconsin [...]
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Higher Education Entry through Credit for Prior Learning
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child care, child care and degree obtainment, credit for prior learning, Early Childhood Education, ECE Professionals, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association, Wisconsin Technical Colleges on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Attracting, Supporting and Retaining a Qualified Workforce
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child care turnover, credit for prior learning, Early Childhood Education, ECE Professionals, joyce foundation, Pathways to Higher Education, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the second in a series of policy briefs by WECA and the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families entitled, “Attracting, Supporting and Retaining a Qualified Workforce.” The link between the early care and education workforce and program quality has been documented in numerous studies, but funding to improve the quality of the workforce [...]
Credit for Prior Learning: Pathway to Higher Education for Child Care Providers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child care, credit for prior learning, Early Childhood Education, Pathways to Higher Education, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families on May 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Briefly Speaking: Early childhood professionals perform better with more credit-based education and so do the children they care for. Yet between 1980 and 2004 the number of child care teachers with at least a 2-year Associate’s Degree dramatically declined. For reasons such as access and cost, many early childhood teachers forgo formal educational courses and [...]
