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Announcing the 2024 RAPID Community Voices Cohort
The Stanford Center on Early Childhood is thrilled to announce the organizations selected to participate in the 2024 RAPID Community Voices cohort.
August 19, 2024
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Four years of RAPID Survey Project Highlights Young Families’ Biggest Stressors: Child Care, Housing, Health Care
"Last month, Stanford Center on Early Childhood released its four-year anniversary report on findings of its RAPID Survey Project."
June 24, 2024
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What Parents and Child Care Providers Want Their Elected Leaders to Know
EdSurge does a deep dive into the RAPID four year anniversary report.
June 18, 2024
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Four years after pandemic, we check in with child care providers on the journey to rebuild
“Three years later, with a new report from the RAPID Survey Project at Stanford Center on Early Childhood,” Sarah Carr checks in with caregivers she interviewed in 2021.
June 12, 2024
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Child care staff report rising levels of anxiety and depression
K12 Dive: The Rapid Survey Project says material hardship among child care professionals is contributing to worsening mental health.
June 05, 2024
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A Global Call for Two-Generation Approaches to Child Development and Caregivers' Livelihoods
SCEC Senior Advisor Dr. Lombardi, along with Drs. Sommer, Franchett, and Yoshikawa, issues an urgent call for a two-generation approach to supporting young children globally.
May 31, 2024
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Child care providers report high levels of work anxiety and depression, survey shows
The latest RAPID Survey Project release "found that about half of providers experienced moderate to high levels of anxiety symptoms, such as nervousness."
May 29, 2024
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Stanford-led DREME network celebrates a decade of progress in early math
On May 3, the SCEC and DREME co-hosted a conference honoring the work of the national network.
May 23, 2024
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More companies offer on-site child care. Parents love the convenience, but is it a long-term fix?
AP: Experts caution against an overreliance on businesses filling the [childcare] void... "Doing so could undercut efforts to recognize child care as a public good."
May 20, 2024
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Preschool? Transitional kindergarten? Is there a difference? Parents are stressing out
LA Times: "A recent Stanford University RAPID survey found that 83% of parents with children ages 5 and under in California say they are aware of the TK program."
April 18, 2024
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March 21, 2024
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‘What American Families Experienced Is Not Something That You Get Over’
New York Times: "Philip Fisher, director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, told me that emotionally, parents haven’t returned to their prepandemic levels of well-being."
March 13, 2024
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Pushing Child Policy from the Crib to the Capital
Patricia A. Cole: "We use data from the RAPID Early Childhood Survey that comes out of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood."
February 06, 2024
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The End of Federal COVID Money Means Shortfalls for States and Schools
Governing: "According to a national survey by the RAPID Survey Project and NAEYC, more than a quarter of providers who ran out of stabilization funds had cut salaries..."
February 05, 2024
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Some States Are Taking Childcare Funding Into Their Own Hands—But Congress Must Act
Ms. Magazine uses data from the "Going Over the Child Care Cliff" survey brief from NAEYC and the RAPID Survey Project.
January 17, 2024
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Child care experts offer optimism amid growing challenges
K-12 Dive: "Without that funding, nearly 1 in 4 child care programs would likely close, according to a survey released last year by the RAPID [Survey] Project."
January 11, 2024
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State policymakers attend academy hosted by the Stanford Center on Early Childhood
This is the second time the Stanford Center on Early Childhood co-hosted the three-day event in collaboration with The Hunt Institute and the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation.
December 20, 2023
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Gift advances the work of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood
Philanthropic support from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation will help the new Stanford Center on Early Childhood chart new paths toward a better future for young children.
December 07, 2023
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Child Care Programs See Closures, Resignations and Tuition Hikes After Federal Funding Expires
EdSurge: "In the weeks after the funding expired, 29 percent of families nationally reported that their child care tuition had increased," according to RAPID and NAEYC.
November 30, 2023
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New Federal Legislation Proposes Essential “Fix’ns” for Meals in Child Care Settings Bipartisanship May Make It Happen
Early Learning Nation: "...44% of child care providers are struggling to afford at least one basic need like food, housing or utilities, and one in three is going hungry.
November 28, 2023