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The present revision was generously supported with a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.  \nA Bizarro World for Infants and Toddlers and Their Teachers  \nRevised and Updated  \n© 2026 Center for the Study of Child Care of Employment. All rights reserved.  \nAcknowledgements  \nThis paper was generously supported with a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation. The original was published by Bank Street College of Education as Whitebook, M. (2019) . A Bizarro World for Infants and Toddlers and Their Teachers. Occasional Paper Series, 2019 (42) . [https://doi.org/10.58295/2375-3668.1335](https://doi.org/10.58295/2375-3668.1335) .  \nSuggested Citation  \nWhitebook, M. , Valencia López, E. , & Copeman Petig, A. (2026) . A Bizarro World for Infants and Toddlers and Their Teachers: Revised and Updated. Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. University of California, Berkeley. [https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/a](https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/a)bizarro-world-for-infants-and-toddlers-and-their-teachers-revised-and-updated/  \nAbout CSCCE  \nThe Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE), founded in 1999, is the national leader in early care and education workforce research and policy. CSCCE provides research and analysis on the preparation, working conditions, and compensation of the early care and education workforce. We develop policy solutions and create spaces for teaching, learning, and educator activism. Our vision is an effective public early care and education system that secures racial, gender, and economic justice for the women whose labor is the linchpin of stable, quality services.  \nA Bizarro World Reverses Our Everyday Realities  \nYou may be familiar with the concept if you have ever read about the fictional backwards world in many DC Comics. In the bizarro world we envision for our nation’s infants and toddlers, family income would not determine whether their parents could afford to take time off work in the first months of their lives or their right to high-quality early care and education. In our bizarro world, the staff in every infant-toddler program, whether offered in a center or home, would be steeped in the science of child development and early learning pedagogy and could depend on living wages , secure benefits, and supportive working conditions.  \nIn this world, the most revered teachers would be those who work with infants and toddlers. It would be widely understood that “baby teachers”—as early educators were once called—require as much knowledge and skill as teachers of older children and that the quality of children’s experiences depend on their teachers’ ability and well-being. These coveted jobs would be sought by men and women alike. Gender and racial bias would have no role in establishing pay rates, and the infant-toddler workforce would be racially and linguistically diverse. Teachers of the youngest children would work in classrooms and programs that support their physical well-being and their ability to implement best practices in their teaching. In this world, public funding would be reflective of the rapid brain development taking place in children younger than three and the critical nature of this time for growth and learning.  \nDenmark and other countries that are getting it right for babies and their families are also doing right by their teachers and manage to finance highquality ECE services as a public good—a universal right rather than a privilege for some.  \nNow more than ever, we need this bizarro world: every day the early educators working with children not yet in kindergarten encounter the opposite reality. Respect and raises are seldom forthcoming, and dispari","cbCaiceeDe8j06lD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiceeDe8j06lD","pdf",367722,"English","# A Bizarro World Reverses Our Everyday Realities\n## What the Numbers Show\n## Suggested Citation & Publication Context","[{\"question\":\"What change does the brief propose for early care and education for infants and toddlers?\",\"answer\":\"It calls for a system where family income does not determine access to high-quality early care and education, and where every infant-toddler program is grounded in child development science and effective pedagogy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the brief describe working conditions for infant-toddler teachers in its envisioned “bizarro world”?\",\"answer\":\"It describes respect and raises as standard, with living wages, secure benefits, and supportive working conditions for staff in both center and home programs.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the analysis of the 2019 NSECE data show about pay levels?\",\"answer\":\"It shows that 89% of center-based infant-toddler teachers earned less than $15 per hour, compared with lower shares for preschool-exclusive teachers and the broader U.S. workforce, and it identifies a sizable wage penalty for infant-toddler educators.\"}]","A Bizarro World for Infants and Toddlers and Their Teachers - Revised and Updated | PDF",1792046929]