Money matters for early education: The relationships among child care quality, teacher characteristics, and subsidy status.
Child care is common for working families. Low income working families need affordable child care. High-quality child care is critical to a child’s learning and development as well as cognitive development. Research has shown that quality child care is an important to all children. Vandivere, Pitzer, Halle, & Hair, 2004; WestEd, 2002) “However, there is less research on how funding streams, such as the federal child care subsidy program, influenced child care quality.” (Buell, Gamel-McCormick, 2011)
Question-“Is it necessary to examine how child care subsidy policies are interacting with teacher characteristics to influence the quality of programming that children, particularly low-income children, are receiving?” (St.Clair-Christman, Gamel-McCormick, 2011)
References
Early Childhood Research & Practice http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v13n2/index.html
St.Clair-Chritman, J., Buell, M., Gamel-McCormick, M. (2011) Monet matters for early education: The relationships among child care quality, teacher characteristics, and subsidy status. 13(2) http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v13n2/christman.html
WestEd. (2002) Urgency rises for quality child care; Infants and toddler policy brief. San Francisco. Retrieved 5/15/12 from http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED468563.pdf
