by Center for Social Measurement and Evaluation | Oct 3, 2019 | Early Childhood Education, Policy, Publication
Texas child care teachers care for an estimated 1 million babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children. Children birth through age three experience an incredible amount of brain growth which shapes their future learning, health, and behaviors. Child...
by Center for Social Measurement and Evaluation | Oct 3, 2019 | C@R Blog, Early Childhood Education, Policy
By Ali Schoon In the recently released report, Early Childhood Apprenticeship Programs, CHILDREN AT RISK reviews how apprenticeship programs can create a pipeline of highly-qualified early childhood education teachers in Texas. This blog touches on three important...
by Center for Social Measurement and Evaluation | Jun 20, 2019 | C@R Blog, Early Childhood Education, Policy
Child care providers (often referred to as “day care”) are important to our communities, and in Texas, about half of them care for low-income kids with working parents who receive financial assistance (or “subsidy”) from the Texas Workforce Commission. Even though...
by Center for Social Measurement and Evaluation | Apr 24, 2019 | C@R Blog, Early Childhood Education, Research
by Patrick Gill, CHILDREN AT RISK In the recently released report, Building Brains & Economies: Quality Child Care as an Engine for Economic Development in a 21st Century Texas, CHILDREN AT RISK examines how quality child care can be leveraged to drive Texas’s...
by Center for Social Measurement and Evaluation | Mar 1, 2019 | Publication, Research
From President & CEO of CHILDREN AT RISK, Dr. Robert Sanborn Data must be the catalyst and starting point to any conversation regarding the well-being of our children. While we can look at a multitude of indicators to gauge how we are doing as a city and state, we...
