Educare National Evaluation Partner
The Educare Learning Network is a national network of early childhood champions.
Educare schools are early care and education programs partnering with historically disinvested communities to transform the lives of thousands of young children nationwide.
Local evaluation partners (LEPs) collaborate with each local Educare school and each other to collect, interpret, and utilize data. The national Educare Network generates network-wide resources, highlights and shares network innovations, and solves practice and policy challenges. The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (FPG) serves as the National Evaluation Partner (NEP) for the network.
Educare Research Updates
Building Equitable Research and Evaluation Practices in the Educare Learning Network
Historically, educational research has been conducted through a white-centric lens without critical analysis of how researchers uphold power dynamics, failing to address how racism operates. This article describes a community of practice (CoP) that infuses anti-racism methods into the evaluation practices of Educare. The project used mixed methods to examine how CoP activities influenced knowledge and beliefs about race and racism, thoughts on schools, students, and race, and research practices at two time points. There was an increased number of anti-racism practices used, and qualitative responses described changes.
Teacher Turnover and Children’s Social-Emotional Skills
Within-year teacher turnover was related to social-emotional, but not language, skills in this post-COVID-19 study. Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in classrooms that experienced turnover showed smaller social–emotional gains, especially infants and toddlers. However, among preschoolers, turnover was not associated with increases in problem behaviors.
Educare children who started as toddlers, rather than waiting until preschool, showed lasting advantages in English language development without boosting behavior problems. These results highlight the added value of early entry into high‑quality ECE programs.
About Educare
Educare Schools provide full-day, full-year, high-quality early education and family support to 85-200 of their community’s children, from prenatal to 5 years.
25 Educare Schools
across the US serve infants through preschoolers and their families. Find out more about Educare schools across the country using Educare Network’s list.
21 Local Evaluation Partner Teams (LEPs)
collaborate with their local school(s) to collect and utilize data for local, network, and national impact.
National Evaluation Partnership
As the National Evaluation Partner (NEP), the FPG team:
Leads the Educare National Evaluation
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Facilitates a community of practice for Educare researchers
Participates in Educare Network collaborative structures
Getting Started?
New Local Evaluation Partners (LEPs) can find details on next steps and dashboard information.
Need Support?
Email the project coordinator, Gisele Crawford, or lead programmer, Keil Jones, for help or learn more about our teams.