Making early care and education an attractive field now and in the future means fundamentally reshaping early childhood jobs to provide fair compensation and reasonable working conditions. CSCCE staff member Caitlin McLean discusses the importance of appropriate compensation for early educators in a new blog post,  Increased Compensation for Early Educators: It's Not Just "Nice to Have" - It's a Must-Have .  

Why is compensation so critical to fix? There's a hole in the bucket: professional development investments are lost as long as poverty-level wages keep driving qualified teachers out of the field.
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How do we fix the hole in the bucket? Why should we even care? Find out the a nswer in @CSCCEUCB's new blog on the importance of increased compensation for #EarlyEducators:  https://bit.ly/2twXlXk

"Median child care worker wages do not meet the living wage threshold for a single adult with one child in  any state." Read why increased compensation for #EarlyEducators is a "must-have" in @CSCCEUCB's new blog: https://bit.ly/2twXlXk  

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W hat's causing the shortage of qualified early care and education teachers? 
There's a hole in the bucket: poverty-level wages keep driving qualified teachers out of the field. 
   
The solution?  
@CSCCEUCB's new blog post discusses how fundamentally reshaping  early  childhood jobs to provide fair compensation and reasonable working  conditions  can  make early care and education an attractive field now and in the  future. Read the blog  here: https://bit.ly/2twXlXk "
This post is the fourth in a series of blog posts CSCCE is releasing on research and policy recommendations to better prepare, support, and compensate the early educator workforce. This series is made possible with support from the Alliance for Early Success and Heising-Simons Foundation. 
Check out our first three blog posts:
Stay tuned for more to come!
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
University of California, Berkeley

The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment is a project of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at UC Berkeley. IRLE connects world-class research with policy to improve workers' lives, communities, and society .

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