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This highlight provides a framework to understand child care and early education workforce well-being and describes examples of research-based initiatives that can be implemented to promote well-being.

Learn research-based answers to key questions about families’ access to public pre-K programs.

The Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (BASE) knowledge review series provides an overview of the existing literature and data on CCEE workforce dynamics and offers recommendations for future research and data collection.

The Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) measure administration and scoring guide provides information to support users in administering and scoring the ExCELS measure.

Explore this new OPRE-funded Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) measure that was developed to capture three leadership elements in center-based early care and education settings, including who participates in leadership, what individuals bring to leadership, and what center staff do as leaders.

This snapshot uses longitudinal data from 2019, 2021, and 2022 in the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to examine the mental health and well-being of the center-based CCEE workforce from 2019, by race and ethnicity.

This report combines survey data from the 2012 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) with administrative lists of home-based child care providers from 2018 to analyze factors that shape the attrition of listed home-based providers from administrative lists.

Understand different types of professional development strategies and how they can help state/territory leaders reach their goals.

This brief summarizes the research evidence on how high-quality ECE benefits all young children, as well as key subgroups, such as children from families experiencing low household income, children who are dual language learners, and children with disabilities.

This report highlights findings from the EHS-CC Partnerships Sustainability Study including how Partnerships were faring as of 2022 and the factors that supported or impeded their sustainability.