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Research to Practice Brief: Delivering on the Promise Through Equitable Policies

This brief focuses on current research trends and implications for racial and ethnic disparities related to early childhood. It highlights policy choices to reduce disparities and set children and families on more favorable trajectories, contributing to their school success and ability to live...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Early Childhood Program Design and Management, PDG Program Design, Equal Access to Child Care, PDG Program Design
A Review of Fiscal Strategies in PDG B-5 Renewal Grants

The PDG B-5 TA Center reviewed applications from the 23 awardees of PDG B-5 renewal grants to synthesize the birth through five system funding strategies, including how multiple funding streams interact and flow to providers, children, and families. A Review of Fiscal Strategies in PDG B-5...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Early Childhood Program Design and Management, PDG Program Design, PDG Program Design
Adaptations to COVID-19: How PDG B-5 Grant Recipients Adapted Their Transition Activities

This report describes the strategies states used to adapt their intended PDG-B5 kindergarten transition activities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several themes emerged from interviews with Grantees including a delayed start to activities, shifts in priorities throughout the state,...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Early Childhood Program Design and Management, PDG Program Design, PDG Program Design
State Highlight: How Pennsylvania State Leaders Used Data to Distribute CARES Act Funds Equitably During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This State Highlight describes Pennsylvania’s Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS) and how state leaders used its data to equitably distribute CARES Act funds among their early child care providers. In round one of the CARES Act funding, Pennsylvania state leaders used their ECIDS...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, Early Childhood Program Design and Management, PDG Program Design, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Supports and Services for Families, PDG Program Design
Developing a Program Performance Evaluation Plan

This brief is designed to assist states with developing or revising their Program Performance Evaluation Plans. It provides guidance and recommendations on showing the state’s logic behind the state’s strategic plan, making decisions about measurement, and setting priorities to make the...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Early Childhood Program Design and Management, PDG Program Design, Evaluation Plan, PDG Program Design, Evaluation Plan
NSECE Summary Brief 1: How Are Center-Based Early Childhood Education Programs Funded?

This brief highlights key information from the 2012 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) about the various types of funding that early care and education (ECE) centers receive.

Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Professional Development, Quality Improvement, Stable Financial Assistance to Families
NSECE Summary Briefs

The National Survey of Early Care and Education reached 12,000 families and large numbers of home-based and center-based programs (6,000 home-based providers, 5,600 classroom staff, and 8,200 program directors). The six briefs provide practical, useable information to inform state and local...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Leadership and Coordination, Professional Development, Quality Improvement, Stable Financial Assistance to Families
NSECE Summary Brief 2: Characteristics of Home-Based Child Care Providers

This brief uses data from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to provide an overview of the different types of home-based providers as well as information about these providers.

Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Professional Development, Quality Improvement, Stable Financial Assistance to Families
NSECE Summary Brief 3: How Do Parents Make Decisions about ECE Arrangements?

This brief describes findings from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) about how families make these types of decisions.

Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Professional Development, Quality Improvement, Stable Financial Assistance to Families
NSECE Summary Brief 4: Characteristics of the Early Care and Education Workforce

This brief summarizes the experience, educational attainment, weekly work hours, and wages that characterize the ECE workforce and identifies questions for state ECE leaders to consider in relation to...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Professional Development, Quality Improvement, Stable Financial Assistance to Families