Parents' persistence and certification in a two-generation education and training program

Sabol, Terri J.; Sommer, Teresa Eckrich; Chase-Lansdale, Lindsay; Brooks‐Gunn, Jeanne; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; King, Christopher T.; Kathawalla, Ummul-Kiram; Alamuddin, Rayane; Gomez, Celia J.; Ross, Emily C.

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.08.012

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“…For example, Head Start, which offers a work support to parents while their children are enrolled in high-quality early childhood education, has found to have led to improved parent education (Sabol & Chase-Lansdale, 2015), which in turn was associated with increased cognitive development in children (Harding, Morris, & Hill, 2017). Programs that offer more explicit and intensive services for parents, including sector-based workforce training program for parents through connections with community colleges, peer group meetings, financial incentives, and career coaches, can also help advance parents’ own education (Sabol et al, 2015).…”

Section: New Definition Of Family Engagement For Qris Contexts: Direcmentioning

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A New Approach to Defining and Measuring Family Engagement in Early Childhood Education Programs

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Sommer²,

Sanchez

et al. 2018

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Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).Two-Thirds of all four-year-old children in the United States attend early childhood education (ECE) programs, and this number is expected to rise in the coming years (U.S. Department of Education, 2017). As ECE programs expand across the country, there is a growing recognition of the need to measure and improve quality across the diverse ECE landscape, including Head Start, state pre-kindergarten (prek), and community-based programs, to improve child outcomes. The major system that monitors center-based ECE programs in the United States is state-level Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). This paper explores how to maximize the effectiveness of QRIS for promoting child outcomes by improving the conceptualization and measurement of family engagement, which is one of the most common measures of quality within QRIS.Galvanized through the Race-to-the-Top Early Learning Challenge, QRIS attempt to improve the performance of individual programs by: (a) assessing ECE programs using a number of quality measures, (b) disseminating program ratings to the local public, and (c) offering improvement supports tied to programs' rating performance. The guiding framework behind QRIS is that top-rated programs represent higher levels of quality, which should mean that higher ratings are associated with greater gains in children's development and learning-a primary goal of early childhood Almost every state-level Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) in the country includes family engagement as an indicator of early childhood education quality. Yet, most QRIS measure family engagement using a uniform, narrow set of parent involvement activities at the center. We propose an alternative approach that emphasizes a range of direct services for parents, including: (1) parenting classes, (2) family support services, (3) social capital activities, and (4) human capital services. In our proposed rating systems, states would assess how well centers address the highest ranked needs of families and employ evidence-based practices across one or more of the center-selected direct parent service categories. We explore the feasibility of this approach through a qualitative study (n = 14 centers) and case examples. We discuss how this new rating system could be used to monitor quality and as a tool for program improvement to support child development.

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confidence: 99%

A New Approach to Defining and Measuring Family Engagement in Early Childhood Education Programs

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Sommer²,

Sanchez

et al. 2018

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“…The lower levels of maternal educational attainment for Mexican-origin mothers overall, therefore, might play a role in their children's under-enrollment in early childhood education programs, regardless of where they completed their education. Thus, programs targeted towards increasing the educational attainment of Mexican-origin women might have an added benefit of increasing early childhood education enrollment for their present or future children (Sabol et al, 2015). As this discussion indicates, closer attention to the contexts of maternal human capital development could provide insight as to whether programs that are geared towards increasing educational attainment among Mexican-origin mothers would be more beneficial for early childhood education enrollment should they be implemented in the U.S. and/or in Mexico.…”

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Community contexts and utilization of early childhood care and education among Mexican-origin children

Ackert

Ressler

Crosnoe

2020

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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Mexican-origin families face complex ethnic and immigration-based barriers to enrollment in early childhood education programs. As such, reducing barriers to enrollment for this population requires a better understanding of how Mexican-origin families work with, against, or around both general and group-specific constraints on educational opportunities. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, this study tailored broad social theory to the experience of Mexican-origin families to examine associations between human capital considerations and early childhood education enrollment within this population. Results supported the hypothesis that human capital considerations would be associated with early childhood care and education and provide limited evidence for the expectation that this link would be stronger for Mexican-origin families.

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“…For example, CareerAdvance, developed by the Community Action Project of Tulsa, is a partnership between Head Start and community college partners that aligns child and adult services and provides additional on-site services at the Head Start centers (e.g., coaching support, peer meetings, in-kind assistance for transportation, wraparound child care on top of Head Start services, etc.) (Chase-Lansdale et al, 2017; Chase-Lansdale et al, 2019; Sabol et al, 2015; Sommer et al, 2018). The training program is tailored to the local economy and focuses on health care careers, which constitute a growth area for the region.…”

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Resilience-promoting policies and contexts for children of color in the United States: Existing research and future priorities

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Williams

2021

Dev Psychopathol

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The health status of children in the United States varies by racial and ethnic, shaped by an interrelated set of systems that disadvantage children of color in the United States. In this article, we argue for a broad view of resilience, in both research and policy, that views resilience not just as a property of individuals but also as a characteristic of social contexts and policies. Accordingly, we describe the empirical evidence for policies and contexts as factors that can improve health among children and families that are deprived of equal opportunities and resources due to structural racism. We discuss the evidence and opportunities for policies and interventions across a variety of societal systems, including programs to promote economic and food security, early education, health care, and the neighborhood and community context. Based on this evidence and other research on racism and resilience, we conclude by outlining some directions for future research.

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Parents' persistence and certification in a two-generation education and training program

Cited by 8 publications

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A New Approach to Defining and Measuring Family Engagement in Early Childhood Education Programs

A New Approach to Defining and Measuring Family Engagement in Early Childhood Education Programs

Community contexts and utilization of early childhood care and education among Mexican-origin children

Resilience-promoting policies and contexts for children of color in the United States: Existing research and future priorities

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