The Obama administration has just a released a new report that sums up its point with its title: “High-Quality Early Learning Settings Depend on a High-Quality Workforce: Low Compensation Undermines Quality.” It has been jointly released by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The report also features wage profiles for each state, including one for Massachusetts that’s posted here.
Wages are “sometimes at or near the Federal poverty line,” the report says, even when early educators “obtain credentials and higher levels of education.” It’s a deeply rooted problem that we blog about often, and one that other research reports have covered. (more…)
Hi my name is Susan Norquist, and I am an education coach for the Little Sprouts Early Learning Center located in Brighton. I received my bachelor’s degree in counseling from Lyndon State College, and I am currently working on my master’s in education. I have worked for over 30 years in the social services field, half of those in early education.
This is one of a series of blogs featuring first-person accounts from early educators across Massachusetts.
My name is Brittany McGovern.
My name is Teddy Kokoros, and for the past 13 years I’ve had the pleasure of working as a preschool and pre-K teacher at the Transportation Children’s Center (TCC) in Boston. I first started working at TCC after completing my associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education at Bay State College’s now defunct Early Childhood Education program. Under the tutelage of my professor Linda Small, I got both the academic knowledge and the field experience via internships that I needed to be a competent early educator.
Eye on Early Education focuses on the twin goals of ensuring that Massachusetts children have access to high-quality early education and become proficient readers by the end of third grade.
