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Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness

This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010–2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE pr...

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Autores principales: MORRISSEY, TARYN W., ALLARD, SCOTT W., PELLETIER, ELIZABETH
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10575474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37842145
http://dx.doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2022.8.3.04
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description This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010–2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counties are less likely to attend private center-based ECE, and nonprofit childcare program expenditures in rural areas lag. We also find rural-metropolitan differences in school readiness diminish when geographic characteristics are controlled. Results suggest that county-level context and state-level policy features shape children’s early experiences, and that public ECE investments are key in narrowing disparities in ECE attendance and in children’s outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-105754742023-10-13 Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness MORRISSEY, TARYN W. ALLARD, SCOTT W. PELLETIER, ELIZABETH RSF Article This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010–2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counties are less likely to attend private center-based ECE, and nonprofit childcare program expenditures in rural areas lag. We also find rural-metropolitan differences in school readiness diminish when geographic characteristics are controlled. Results suggest that county-level context and state-level policy features shape children’s early experiences, and that public ECE investments are key in narrowing disparities in ECE attendance and in children’s outcomes. 2022-05-01 2022-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10575474/ /pubmed/37842145 http://dx.doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2022.8.3.04 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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