ECE POLICY IN THE US, QUIZ 2

Fadeout

100

This state's public pre-k RCT has demonstrated troubling fadeout.

Tennessee

200

These two public pre-k programs have shown long term benefits for children.

Tulsa (or Oklahoma)& Boston

300

These kinds of effects provide one hypothesized reason for why we might see both fadeout and long term benefits.

sleeper effects

400

This famous RCT found evidence of academic and socio-emotional fadeout (but not reversal) in a publicly-funded program.

Head Start Impact Study

500

These two programs have shown both short term fadeout and long term outcomes in the context of an RCT.

Perry and Abacedarian

Policies

100

This is an example of a regulation based way to improve access to evidence based curriculum in Head Start.

mandating sites do so; providing a list of curricula and mandating that sites use an approved program; etc.

200

This policy was designed to provide low cost, public child care to women working in factories in the 1940s.

The Lanham Act

300

This was the first ECE policy initiative that was not designed to provide a work support for parents.

Head Start

400

This would have been provided by a Congressional Act that was vetoed in the 1970s by then President Nixon.

public child care for all families

500

This is a federal policy that provides families with money for child care programming that is mostly used by middle to high income families.

Child Care and Dependent Tax Credit

Sectors 1

100

Choose the correct words: Across sectors in the US, data suggests that as access to publicly-funded settings has increased/decreased, the average quality of these settings has increased/decreased.

increased / decreased 

200

This sector has the highest teacher turnover rate.

child care

300

in which two sectors are regulatory based strategies the PRIMARY means of increasing quality?

Head Start, State pre-k

400

Funding from the federal government provides public support for this/these sector(s).

Child Care, Head Start, & State Pre-k all receive public dollars

500

list at least 2 of the key decision points state policymakers face when considering the design of a state pre-k program.

Targeted vs. universal; half vs. full day; in school only vs. mixed delivery; teacher credential and compensation parity

Sectors 2

100

True or false: all low income families have access to some kind of public support for ECE.

false

200

Head Start settings have very high _________ quality because it is easily regulated.

structural

300

These two sectors were formed with the aim of supporting child development instead of supporting caregivers' ability to work.

Head Start, public pre-k

400

In the child care sector, this is the primary type of policy used to increase quality.

incentive based (or market based) policies

500

This sector receives the most per-child public dollars; this sector receives the least per-child public dollars.

Head Start; child care

Educators

100

These two groups of individuals (aside from educators themselves) are also impacted by low educator compensation.

children, caregivers

200

This type of degree is universally held by K12 educators, but held by just 35% of early educators.

Bachelor's degree

300

Across sectors, as teacher compensation increases teacher turnover _______________.

decreases

400

on average, early educators have very low levels of _________ & __________ wellbeing.

emotional and financial

500

This is the number of states in which the median wage for child care teachers is less than the living wage for  a single adult.

50