Smarter Reform
Moving Beyond Single-Program Solutions to an Early Care and Education System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6181959 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise Stoney, Anne Mitchell, Mildred E Warner (0000-0002-0109-338X) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 101-115 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Community Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-5330 • E-ISSN: 1944-7485 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15575330609490210 |
| OpenAlex | W2055405168 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 16 |
Proposals to improve early care and education (ECE) are often based on narrow conceptions of the value, benefits, and appropriate structure of services. The result is an increasing number of initiatives that focus only on a single aspect of the system (e.g., preschool for poor children) and assume this limited intervention can produce large results. This paper argues that to realize ECE's potential to benefit children, families, and the nation's economy, the focus of reform proposals must broaden. The paper highlights the need for public investment that recognizes our children s full worth and that reflects the value of family caregiving by supporting non-market as well as market care. The paper presents an alternative proposal that takes into account the complexity and special nature of ECE markets and that calls for a range of investment strategies and a commitment to a level of institutional support commensurate with a high-quality ECE system
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Intervention (counseling · Investment (military · Political science · Public economics · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Value (mathematics · Early Childhood Education and Development · Education Systems and Policy · Medicine · Nursing · Parental Involvement in Education
Child care and parent labor force participation
(Not) Valuing Care
Why Early Care and Education Deserves as Much Attention, or More, than Prekindergarten Alone
Putting Child Care in the Regional Economy
Resilience in change
A Policy Outcomes Comparison
The invisible labor and multidimensional impacts of negotiating childcare on farms
An exploratory study of the impacts of an employer-supported child care program
The razor’s edge
Child Care, Female Employment, and Economic Growth
Costs, Benefits, and Long-Term Effects of Early Care and Education Programs
Overview
Working households
Who Participates and Who Benefits From Employer-Provided Child-Care Assistance
From Neurons to Neighborhoods
The Relation of Preschool Child-Care Quality to Children's Cognitive and Social Developmental Trajectories through Second Grade
Within and beyond the classroom door
The prediction of process quality from structural features of child care
The Effects of Universal Pre‐K in Oklahoma
Child Care, Female Employment, and Economic Growth
Choice and Accommodation in Parental Child Care Decisions
Costs, Benefits, and Long-Term Effects of Early Care and Education Programs
Rethinking the Child Care Sector
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2020 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |