"We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn."








-Bill Clinton

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No Single Ingredient: 2020 Vision for the Early Learning Workforce Early Learning Tour, Denver, Colorado, April 26, 2010 MARCY WHITEBOOK, PH.D. Center for the Study of Child Care Employment University of California at Berkeley 2 These truths about the early care and education workforce are not breaking news. We have known for two decades, since the release of the National Child Care Staffing Study in 1989, that limited education, lack of specialized early childhood training and poor compensation are inextricably linked to the poor to mediocre quality common to the majority of early care and education services across the nation. We have known, almost for that long, that the education level and pay of the workforce play a critical role in whether services can improve.

Rather than dwelling on the problems ---which those of you familiar with my work know that I could easily spend 30 minutes doing--- I want to suggest a framework for a 2020 Vision for the Early Learning Workforce which builds on the new context in which this conversation is taking place and which we can flesh out during our time together today.

This conversation about the workforce is occurring not just during a Presidential Administration which views an improved early learning system as fundamental to educational reform, but also at a time when the latest science overwhelming points to the workforce as central to the Administration’s goal of quality improvement. We now have scientific evidence to support a belief that many of us have held for a long time: that children’s environment of relationships in the first years of their lives shape the architecture of their brains, influencing their abilities long into adulthood.



(Excerpt)

-Marcy Whitebook



http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/earlylearning/denver-whitebook-speech.pdfEarly Learning Tour, Denver, Colorado, April 26, 2010 MARCY WHITEBOOK, PH.D. Center for the Study of Child Care Employment University of California at Berkeley Center for the Study of Child Care Employment University of California at Berkeley 2 These truths about the early care and education workforce are not breaking news. We have known for two decades, since the release of the National Child Care Staffing Study in 1989, that limited education, lack of specialized early childhood training and poor compensation are inextricably linked to the poor to mediocre quality common to the majority of early care and education services across the nation. We have known, almost for that long, that the education level and pay of the workforce play a critical role in whether services can improve.

Rather than dwelling on the problems ---which those of you familiar with my work know that I could easily spend 30 minutes doing--- I want to suggest a framework for a 2020 Vision for the Early Learning Workforce which builds on the new context in which this conversation is taking place and which we can flesh out during our time together today.

This conversation about the workforce is occurring not just during a Presidential Administration which views an improved early learning system as fundamental to educational reform, but also at a time when the latest science overwhelming points to the workforce as central to the Administration’s goal of quality improvement. We now have scientific evidence to support a belief that many of us have held for a long time: that children’s environment of relationships in the first years of their lives shape the architecture of their brains, influencing their abilities long into adulthood.



(Excerpt)

-Marcy Whitebook



http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/earlylearning/denver-whitebook-speech.pdf