Marcy Whitebook
Biographic Data
| ID | 5753501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcy Whitebook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcy |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitebook |
| SIGNATURE | WHITEBOOK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Impacts of Covid-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types
The COVID-19 crisis has overwhelmed and weakened the United States early care and education (ECE) sector, jeopardizing a system that was already precariously situated atop a weak foundation. While multiple national- and state-level studies have highlighted the overwhelming impacts of the pandemic on the ECE sector, little has been reported about how much variation in impacts exists, and in what forms, within the ECE sector. Based on a statewide s…
The Early Care and Education Workforce
In this article, Deborah Phillips, Lea Austin, and Marcy Whitebook examine educational preparation, compensation, and professional development among the early childhood workforce. Their central theme is that these features look very different for preschool teachers than they do for the elementary school teaching workforce. Most teachers of kindergarten through third grade can count on clear job requirements, professional development opportunities…
At the heart of child care: Predictors of teacher sensitivity in center-based child care
Turnover begets turnover: An examination of job and occupational instability among child care center staff
Evaluating the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (Ecers): Assessing differences between the first and revised edition
Child Care Workers: High Demand, Low Wages
This article provides an overview of child care employment, identifying its key characteristics and issues impeding the development of a skilled and stable workforce to meet the need for quality early care and education services. Characteristics of child care jobs are summarized, including information about poverty-level earnings, poor benefits, unequal opportunity, and high turnover. Market pressures that depress wages in this sector are explore…
Thresholds of Quality: Implications for the Social Development of Children in Center-Based Child Care
Carollee Howes, Deborah A. Phillips, Marcy Whitebook, Thresholds of Quality: Implications for the Social Development of Children in Center-Based Child Care, Child Development, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Apr., 1992), pp. 449-460
The social policy context of child care: Effects on quality
Examined effects on the quality of children's child care environments of (a) the stringency of state child care regulations, (b) voluntary compliance with proposed federal child care standards, and (c) the legal auspice of the center. Quality of care was assessed in 227 child care centers in five metropolitan areas. Centers in states with more stringent child care regulations tended to have better staff-child ratios, staff with more child-related…
Child Care as an Adult Work Environment
A sample of 1307 center‐based child care staff was studied to assess predictors of job satisfaction and turnover, and to link these aspects of the adult work environment of child care to the quality of care, as assessed from a child development perspective. The staff were well educated in comparison to the female labor force, but they earned, on average, poverty‐level wages. High levels of career orientation and satisfaction with the day‐to‐day d…
Turnover begets turnover: An examination of job and occupational instability among child care center staff
Child Care Workers: High Demand, Low Wages
This article provides an overview of child care employment, identifying its key characteristics and issues impeding the development of a skilled and stable workforce to meet the need for quality early care and education services. Characteristics of child care jobs are summarized, including information about poverty-level earnings, poor benefits, unequal opportunity, and high turnover. Market pressures that depress wages in this sector are explore…
At the heart of child care: Predictors of teacher sensitivity in center-based child care
Child Care as an Adult Work Environment
A sample of 1307 center‐based child care staff was studied to assess predictors of job satisfaction and turnover, and to link these aspects of the adult work environment of child care to the quality of care, as assessed from a child development perspective. The staff were well educated in comparison to the female labor force, but they earned, on average, poverty‐level wages. High levels of career orientation and satisfaction with the day‐to‐day d…
The social policy context of child care: Effects on quality
Examined effects on the quality of children's child care environments of (a) the stringency of state child care regulations, (b) voluntary compliance with proposed federal child care standards, and (c) the legal auspice of the center. Quality of care was assessed in 227 child care centers in five metropolitan areas. Centers in states with more stringent child care regulations tended to have better staff-child ratios, staff with more child-related…
Evaluating the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (Ecers): Assessing differences between the first and revised edition
Impacts of Covid-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types
The COVID-19 crisis has overwhelmed and weakened the United States early care and education (ECE) sector, jeopardizing a system that was already precariously situated atop a weak foundation. While multiple national- and state-level studies have highlighted the overwhelming impacts of the pandemic on the ECE sector, little has been reported about how much variation in impacts exists, and in what forms, within the ECE sector. Based on a statewide s…
Child Care as an Adult Work Environment
A sample of 1307 center‐based child care staff was studied to assess predictors of job satisfaction and turnover, and to link these aspects of the adult work environment of child care to the quality of care, as assessed from a child development perspective. The staff were well educated in comparison to the female labor force, but they earned, on average, poverty‐level wages. High levels of career orientation and satisfaction with the day‐to‐day d…
Thresholds of Quality: Implications for the Social Development of Children in Center-Based Child Care
Carollee Howes, Deborah A. Phillips, Marcy Whitebook, Thresholds of Quality: Implications for the Social Development of Children in Center-Based Child Care, Child Development, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Apr., 1992), pp. 449-460
The social policy context of child care: Effects on quality
Examined effects on the quality of children's child care environments of (a) the stringency of state child care regulations, (b) voluntary compliance with proposed federal child care standards, and (c) the legal auspice of the center. Quality of care was assessed in 227 child care centers in five metropolitan areas. Centers in states with more stringent child care regulations tended to have better staff-child ratios, staff with more child-related…
Child Care Workers: High Demand, Low Wages
This article provides an overview of child care employment, identifying its key characteristics and issues impeding the development of a skilled and stable workforce to meet the need for quality early care and education services. Characteristics of child care jobs are summarized, including information about poverty-level earnings, poor benefits, unequal opportunity, and high turnover. Market pressures that depress wages in this sector are explore…
Turnover begets turnover: An examination of job and occupational instability among child care center staff
Evaluating the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (Ecers): Assessing differences between the first and revised edition
At the heart of child care: Predictors of teacher sensitivity in center-based child care
The Early Care and Education Workforce
In this article, Deborah Phillips, Lea Austin, and Marcy Whitebook examine educational preparation, compensation, and professional development among the early childhood workforce. Their central theme is that these features look very different for preschool teachers than they do for the elementary school teaching workforce. Most teachers of kindergarten through third grade can count on clear job requirements, professional development opportunities…
Impacts of Covid-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types
The COVID-19 crisis has overwhelmed and weakened the United States early care and education (ECE) sector, jeopardizing a system that was already precariously situated atop a weak foundation. While multiple national- and state-level studies have highlighted the overwhelming impacts of the pandemic on the ECE sector, little has been reported about how much variation in impacts exists, and in what forms, within the ECE sector. Based on a statewide s…
Early Childhood Education and Development (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Child care (4 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works)