{"id":53,"date":"2022-06-22T16:57:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/chapter\/not-all-preschool-programs-are-alike\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:34:36","slug":"not-all-preschool-programs-are-alike","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/chapter\/not-all-preschool-programs-are-alike\/","title":{"raw":"Not all Preschool Programs are Alike","rendered":"Not all Preschool Programs are Alike"},"content":{"raw":"As more and more children need childcare, families are faced with a tremendous task of finding \u201cthe right preschool program.\u201d When choosing a center, some families may contemplate certain factors like cost and affordability, hours of operation and availability, and location. Some families, on the other hand, may consider the school philosophy, the education and experience of teachers, the environment and daily activities, as well as the curriculum model and guidance policies. As you can see, there are numerous possibilities to consider. Families must also decide on whether to send their child to a state-funded or faith-based program, a family childcare or a traditional preschool setting. No matter what type of program a family chooses, in the state of Colorado all child care centers must be licensed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/cdec.colorado.gov\/\">Colorado Department of Early Childhood<\/a> and comply with <a href=\"https:\/\/cdec.colorado.gov\/for-providers\/child-care-licensing-and-administration\">Child Care Licensing and Administration<\/a> rules and regulations. For the purpose of this text, in order to demonstrate that all preschools are not alike, we will refer to \u201c standard industry practice \u201d as any state licensed childcare program and we will refer to \u201c high-quality practice \u201d as any childcare center that undergoes regular assessments using tools and techniques that are above and beyond the standard industry practice .","rendered":"<p>As more and more children need childcare, families are faced with a tremendous task of finding \u201cthe right preschool program.\u201d When choosing a center, some families may contemplate certain factors like cost and affordability, hours of operation and availability, and location. Some families, on the other hand, may consider the school philosophy, the education and experience of teachers, the environment and daily activities, as well as the curriculum model and guidance policies. As you can see, there are numerous possibilities to consider. Families must also decide on whether to send their child to a state-funded or faith-based program, a family childcare or a traditional preschool setting. No matter what type of program a family chooses, in the state of Colorado all child care centers must be licensed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/cdec.colorado.gov\/\">Colorado Department of Early Childhood<\/a> and comply with <a href=\"https:\/\/cdec.colorado.gov\/for-providers\/child-care-licensing-and-administration\">Child Care Licensing and Administration<\/a> rules and regulations. For the purpose of this text, in order to demonstrate that all preschools are not alike, we will refer to \u201c standard industry practice \u201d as any state licensed childcare program and we will refer to \u201c high-quality practice \u201d as any childcare center that undergoes regular assessments using tools and techniques that are above and beyond the standard industry practice .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["gina-peterson","emily-elam","dawn-brown"],"pb_section_license":"cc-by"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[63,61,60],"license":[52],"class_list":["post-53","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-dawn-brown","contributor-emily-elam","contributor-gina-peterson","license-cc-by"],"part":47,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/53\/revisions\/170"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/47"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/53\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accece1045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}