A proposed Early Learning Apprenticeship Program in Hawaiʻi aims to address the shortage of early childhood educators by ...

Early childhood educator apprentice Mayra Aguilar, right, writes on a chalkboard with preschooler Manuel during outdoor playtime at the Wu Yee Children’s Services Bayview Early Learning Center in San ...

Welcome to the outdoor classroom area of CAC Main, a nationally accredited Head Start preschool run by Santa Barbara County’s Community Action Commission. CAC Main is just one of the child-care ...

Persistently highlighting the crucial importance of early childhood education (ECE) for inclusive quality public education, Education International (EI) and its member organisations are pushing for ...

New, comprehensive data on child care workers in center-based programs—analyzing their demographics, education, experience, and wages—reveal widening pay gaps and inequality. 76 percent of early ...

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To help states better understand the administration’s vision of high-quality early-learning programs, officials from the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services have ...

Marg Rogers is a Research Fellow with the Commonwealth-funded Manna Institute that builds place-based research capacity to improve mental health in regional, rural, and remote Australia through the ...

Working with children with special needs is a particularly rewarding career. Learn the best practices to teach and positively impact children with special needs birth - 5 years with an early childhood ...

Changes — and subsequent confusion and concern — largely defined the early childhood education sector in 2025. Multiple social programs including Head Start and hunger assistance programs were in flux ...

MANOA, Hawaii (KHON2) — A new degree option at the University of Hawaii at Manoa will expand the knowledge of childhood educator candidates and help reverse the effects of a critical shortage across ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...