$80,000
COVID-19 Relief Funding and the Child Care Workforce
2024
Amy Claessens is a professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the Carl and Mary Gulbrandsen Distinguished Chair in Early Childhood Education and the associate director of the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education.
Her research focuses on improving the well-being of families and young children in a variety of contexts, including child care and the early years of school.
Her research has been funded by a wide range of agencies, including the Administration for Children and Families and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Claessens has a Ph.D. in human development and social policy from Northwestern University.
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