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Signature Assignment Title: Quality Childcare Programs

*Signature Assignment**

Throughout this course, you have researched many topics related to creating support for families of young children and creating a strong tie between home and school. For this signature assignment, you will take all that you’ve learned as well as additional research to create a final essay and presentation. Outside research is required, and you are encouraged to carefully read and review all of the articles and videos provided in the ‘Learning Materials’ section for this week.

Step 1: Write a comprehensive essay in which you discuss the following:

  • The state of childcare in America Today
  • Characteristics of quality childcare/early care programs
  • Working with families to create a sense of community

The essay should be 2000 words and should address each of the required prompts in Step 1. Be sure to completely answer all requirements in each prompt. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Make sure to reference five (5) citations using the APA writing style for each reference. Include a cover page and a reference page, which do not count towards the minimal word amount.

Step 2: PowerPoint

Create an electronic presentation that includes information from throughout this course related directly to working with families to create home/school partnership. You may include any topics we’ve addressed in this class throughout the course that relate to this, including but not limited to the following:

  • The value of creating partnerships with families and the benefits to students
  • Specific research-based ways that teachers and schools can build a successful partnership with families
  • Three concrete examples of activities that teachers can do to demonstrate to families that they are valued

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The State of Childcare in America Today
Today in America, childcare is deemed the most expensive expenditure within any
household (Hamm, 2015). Childcare today has been termed as the most significant expenditure
on a family’s budget. People are no longer worried about education cost, transportation, and food
expenses. On the contrary, most people are more concerned about the rising cost of childcare.
Almost every region in the US believes that childcare is more expensive as opposed to food and
transportation costs combined.
In the past, parents were willing and able to have more children. Childcare was not an
issue of concern for most of these parents. This is because at least the mothers were responsible
for caring for the kids. The duties of a wife in the household included taking care of the kids
while the husband went for the job. However, in the modern day, world childcare is becoming a
significant issue of concern because parents are no longer staying at homes. Today, most parents
are employed in a certain job that takes away their time with the children. As such, these parents
are opting to take kids to childcare organizations that help in looking after the children.
Most of the low-income families find childcare to be unaffordable. Childcare is a vital
cost in the household. It is eating up a large portion of the budget for a family. While families
plan on how to manage their income, they have to set aside a large portion specifically for
childcare. For instance, in a year the average cost of care provided full-time in a center is
approximately $10,000 and above. Childcare is a problem in most states in the US because as its
cost continues to increase the wages of most parents remain stagnant.
Childcare is seen as an issue of concern and a problem for most people in America
because families are finding it unaffordable (Leach, 2009). Most families within the low-income

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bracket are struggling with the inability to pay for childcare. It is a crucial economic issue as it
affects every individual in society. As such, today child care is deemed a priority by the nation.
In addition to being a crisis in the nation and economy, child care is assumed to be
inadequate. Some people argue that current child care services are inadequate. The services
offered in centers to the children are limited. They do not contribute to the adequate and
complete development of the children. As such, there is the need for improvement in child care
programs. There should be more training on individuals that provide this care to kids in the
centers. Furthermore, the child care providers should receive a better pay to motivate them in
offering adequate care services to the kids.
Additionally, despite the problems associated with current child care in the US, the kids
are enjoying the attention and care provided by the care...


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