Resources & Publications
Featured Resource
The goals of the Educare Research Agenda to advance racial equity are: 1. to elevate innovative research questions, methodologies, and practices with broad implications for practice, programs, policy, children, and families; 2. to guide continuous quality improvement and provide both learning and celebratory opportunities; and 3. to impact the ECE field by informing practitioners, policymakers, funders, researchers, and advocates about Educare’s efforts and findings that show promise for improving access, program quality, and outcomes of children, families, and the ECE workforce.
This agenda helps us collaborate in specific ways to accomplish our Network’s strategic priorities through collective research and inquiry, with sample questions organized into four categories of focus:
- Policies & Systems
- Programs & Professionals
- Communities, Families & Children
- Measurement & Data
Research Updates
Lead teacher, assistant teacher, and peer racial/ethnic match and child outcomes for Black children
Profiles of Parenting for Low-Income Families and Links to Children’s Preschool Outcomes
Associations Between Continuity of Care in Infant-Toddler Classrooms and Child Outcomes
Measure List
Educare National Evaluation Measures (2024-2025)
This chart provides more information about measures used in the evaluation.
Publications List
Educare Publication List
Journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations/theses using Educare data.
Follow-up Study
Local evaluators in Atlanta, Central Maine, Denver, Kansas City, and Tulsa followed Educare and non-Educare children into the early grades of elementary school. These follow-up studies provide critically needed information about developmental trajectories of children when they are in early childhood programs and after they transition to primary school. These studies examine which skills developed during time enrolled in Educare underlie acquisition of academic and social skills during the first years of elementary school.
Read more about the Follow-Up Study
Randomized Study
The effectiveness of Educare in improving child outcomes at age 3 was evaluated in a randomized study. This study began following 239 children from low-income families who were randomly assigned as infants (<19 months) to Educare or a control group.
Additional Resources
Educare National Evaluation Overview
Educare National Evaluation Spring 2021 Family and Staff Survey (Video)