By a Thread: How Child Care Centers Hold On to Teachers, How Teachers Build Lasting Careers

Marcy Whitebook and Laura Sakai
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Marcy Whitebook: University of California-Berkeley
Laura Sakai: Research Consultant

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Abstract: Whitebook and Sakai examine how child care programs and their staff subsist in a field characterized by low pay, low status, and high turnover and what the impacts of these factors are on the quality of child care provided.

Keywords: child care; child care teachers; child care centers; teachers; education; pre-school (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
ISBN: cloth 9780880993012 paper 9780880993005
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