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 Educare National Office 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

Research Agenda for Racial Equity
The goals of the Educare Research Agenda to advance racial equity are: 1. to elevate innovative research with broad implications for practice, programs, and policy; 2. to guide continuous quality improvement; and 3. to impact access, program quality, and outcomes of children, families, and the ECE workforce.

The effectiveness of Educare in improving child outcomes at age 3 was evaluated in a randomized study. Assessments of the skills of 202 children revealed significant differences in favor of children in the treatment group on auditory language skills, early math skills, and parent-reported problem behaviors.

Lead teachers, assistant teacher, and peer racial/ethnic match and child outcomes for Black children
Teacher-child racial match has been shown to benefit young Black children. Within Black Majority schools, behavior concerns were reduced when the assistant teachers were a racial match and child initiative was higher when both the teachers were a match.
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 Educare Schools across the country using Start Early’s map.
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
.

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.