By a Thread: How Child Care Centers Hold On to Teachers, How Teachers Build Lasting Careers

Authors

Marcy Whitebook, University of California, Berkeley
Laura Sakai, American Federation of Teachers

Publication Date

1-1-2004

DOI

10.17848/9781417524457

Abstract

Marcy Whitebook and Laura Sakai examine how child care programs and their staff subsist in a field characterized by low pay, low status, and high turnover and what the impacts of these factors are on the quality of child care provided.

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Contents

1. An Overview of the U.S. Child Care Industry
2. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Changes in Child Care Staffing, 1994–2000
3. The Role of Staffing in Improving and Sustaining Center Quality
4. Turnover and the Quality of Child Care Services: Perspectives of Teachers and Directors
5. Who Leaves? Who Stays? Who Joins?: Changing Characteristics of the Child Care Workforce
6. Work and Family Issues as Factors in Career Decisions
7. Rewards and Stresses of Child Care Work
8. Conclusions and Recommendations

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ISBN

9780880993012 (cloth) ; 9780-880993005 (pbk.) ; 9781417524457 (ebook)

Subject Areas

EDUCATION; Early childhood; Preschool and early education; K-12 Education; Teachers and compensation