WCW Hosts Early Childhood Policy Research Summit
For the media / 2025
Child care tradeoffs among Massachusetts mothers (2024)
Publications / Journal Publications
Clint Sours
Active Researchers / Research Staff
CLASS Training and Supports
All Projects / Active Projects
Family Child Care New Entrant Study
The 19th: Democrats and Republicans agree child care is in crisis. Why can’t they get a bill passed?
Recent Coverage / 2023
The Challenges of Accessing Child Care While Working Non-Standard Hours
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Annual Report 2022
Detroit Free Press: Inside Detroit's 24-hour child care
Recent Coverage / 2022
Boston Fed: What happens when limited child care options force difficult tradeoffs?
The Impact of Parental Burnout and Time with Children: Family Stress in a Large Urban City During COVID-19 (2022)
Boston Globe: Families in Alabama have free, full-day prekindergarten while many Mass. families can only dream of it
Hechinger Report: Our child care industry is in free fall, and that’s bad news for all children
Recent Coverage / 2021
Bangor Daily News: Maine providers question how Democrats’ social spending bill will help solve child care woes
Research Spotlight: Child Care During the Pandemic
Media Library / Videos by WCW Scholars and Trainers
Washington Examiner: What Biden's 7% cap on child care costs could mean for working and stay-at-home parents
Research Scientist Studies "New Normal" in Child Care
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Annual Report 2021
Accessing Child Care During the Coronavirus Pandemic in Massachusetts (2021)
Publications by title / Fact Sheets & Briefs
K-12 Dive: Early childhood must be overhauled to improve pay, career pathways
Crisis and Opportunity: Building a Better Childcare System
Ms. Magazine: The Stimulus Package is a Huge Win for Working Parents—and an Opportunity to Rebuild Our Child Care System
MarketWatch: ‘It’s not going to solve the problem’: Democrats unveil ambitious child-care tax credit, but will it be enough?
Too Much and Not Enough: Family Stresses and Child Care Preferences in Boston During COVID-19 (2020)
A Better Child Care System is Essential to Gender Equality—and Economic Recovery
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Annual Report 2020
COVID-19 and Gender Equality: “This is not about returning to normal”
Integrating Intervention Approaches: Development and Initial Testing of an Early Childhood Education Intervention (2020)
Diverse Education: Closing University Child Care Centers Hurts Both Student Parents and Future Educators
Recent Coverage / 2020
WCW Recommends Focus on Early Childhood Care and Education in Reopening Plans
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Midyear Brief 2020
Parental Work Schedules, CCDF Policies & Child Care Arrangements in Low-Income Families
New Findings, Publications, Presentations: Education
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Midyear Brief 2018
Early Education and Out-of-School Time Evaluation
Student Teachers
Recent Coverage / 2006
Ready Educators Quality Improvement Pilot
All Projects / Archived Projects
Environment Rating Scales Reliable Rater Level 4 Classroom Observations and Level 3 Technical Assistant Site Visits for MA QRIS
Ready Educators Quality Improvement Pilot: Overview Report (2016)
Ready Educators Quality Improvement Pilot: Linking Program Improvement to Childhood Outcomes; Year One Evaluation Report (2014)
Research undertaken by WCW scholars informs bill to improve child care facilities
For the media / Earlier
State Advisory Council on Early Childhood Education and Care Needs Assessment
Q&A: The Changing World of Work and Family Balance
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Report Fall/Winter 2010
Developmental science and education: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development findings from elementary school (2007)
Publications / Publications by author
Impact of Work Organization on Women’s Postpartum Health
Boston Quality Inventory
The Massachusetts Child Care Subsidy Study
NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
Early Child Care and Children's Development in the Primary Grades: Follow-up Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (2005)
Child Care and Child Development Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (2005)
Comprehensive professional development system needed for Massachusetts early education and care work
New Brief: Workforce Development & Compensation Critical to Quality Early Childhood Education in MA
Op-Ed: Workforce development & compensation critical to quality early childhood education
Opinion / Past years
Are Child Developmental Outcomes Related to Before- and After-School Care Arrangements? Results From the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (2004)
Employment, Work Conditions and Health Among Older Workers
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