In the Media

"Last month, Stanford Center on Early Childhood released its four-year anniversary report on findings of its RAPID Survey Project."

EdSurge does a deep dive into the RAPID four year anniversary report.

“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.

K12 Dive: The Rapid Survey Project says material hardship among child care professionals is contributing to worsening mental health.

The latest RAPID Survey Project release "found that about half of providers experienced moderate to high levels of anxiety symptoms, such as nervousness."

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."

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."

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."

Patricia A. Cole: "We use data from the RAPID Early Childhood Survey that comes out of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood."

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..."

Ms. Magazine uses data from the "Going Over the Child Care Cliff" survey brief from NAEYC and the RAPID Survey Project.

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."

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.

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.

EdNC: The RAPID Survey Project and NAEYC asked providers and families about what’s happening in places where pandemic child care funding ended in September.

USA Today: "Families with children have experienced material hardship at levels last seen in 2020, according to surveys regularly conducted by researchers based at Stanford."

Public News Service: "...around 39% of women with small children said they've quit or reduced their hours on the job since the pandemic."

K-12 Dive: The 2023 yearbook includes national data gathered from the Stanford University Center on Early Childhood’s Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development Survey.

Insider Business: "When there continues to be strain on the system, the people who are often hardest-hit are those who are already the most vulnerable," said Cristi Carman of RAPID

Youth Today: A quarter of all daycare providers said they had a hard time affording housing, according to Stanford University’s Center on Early Childhood.