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

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  • Marcy Whitebook

    (University of California-Berkeley)

  • Laura Sakai

    (Research Consultant)

Abstract

Whitebook and 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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  • Marcy Whitebook & Laura Sakai, 2004. "By a Thread: How Child Care Centers Hold On to Teachers, How Teachers Build Lasting Careers," Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, number bat, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:upj:ubooks:bat
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    1. Kwon, Kyong-Ah & Malek, Adrien & Horm, Diane & Castle, Sherri, 2020. "Turnover and retention of infant-toddler teachers: Reasons, consequences, and implications for practice and policy," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).

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    Keywords

    child care; child care teachers; child care centers; teachers; education; pre-school;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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