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24 Oct 2016
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Connecting All Children to High-Quality Early Care and Education: Promising Strategies From the International Community (Brief)

High-quality early care and education (ECE) provides a critical foundation for young children’s success in school and in life. Yet, in the United States, fewer than two out of three preschool-age children are enrolled in center-based ECE programs.

This brief highlights promising practices used in many European countries to ensure all children, including those from vulnerable families, have access to ECE. These approaches can inform similar efforts in the United States to increase the participation of young children in ECE:

  • Provide strong fiscal support for universal ECE quality and affordability.
  • Connect children to the ECE system early.
  • Improve community connections between ECE systems and the families they serve.
  • Target extra support and out-reach to immigrants and other vulnerable groups.
  • Create and protect a legal entitlement to ECE for all children.

This brief, and the accompanying report, focuses on formal, center-based care.

PDF icon Connecting All Children to High Quality Early Care and Education (Brief, PDF)

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24 Oct 2016
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Connecting All Children to High-Quality Early Care and Education: Promising Strategies From the International Community

High-quality early care and education (ECE) provides an important foundation for young children’s success in school and in life. Yet, in the United States, fewer than two out of three children between the ages of 3 and 6 are enrolled in center-based ECE programs.

Topic: 
Education, International Early Childhood and Child Development, Early Childhood and Child Development

Further Reading

  • Connecting All Children to High-Quality Early Care and Education: Promising Strategies From the International Community
  • Lessons From Abroad: Ensuring High-Quality Early Care and Education in the U.S.
  • ESSA │Early Childhood and Childhood Development
  • Moving Up the Ladder: How Do States Deliver Quality Improvement Supports Within Their Quality Rating and Improvement Systems?
  • Condition of Education 2018: Early Childhood Care Costs
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Gabriele Fain

Gabriele Fain

Principal Researcher and Practice Area Director

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Education
International Early Childhood and Child Development
Early Childhood and Child Development

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