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New America, Reimagined: Built for What’s Next
New America Announces Its New Mission and Vision, Reveals New Logo and Website
AI Risks Creating a ‘Demand Machine’ for Governments, Report Warns
New Paper on the Need for Specialized Teacher Licenses in the Early Grades
Narrower licenses can allow for more specialization
What’s the Right Thing to Do for Every Child to Succeed?
ESSA both strengthens and expands opportunities for early learning, birth through third grade
Don’t Use Kindergarten Readiness Assessments for Accountability
While KRAs have several benefits for teaching and learning, the results can also be used inappropriately.
If We’re Serious About Early Learning, Here’s How It Should Look
Early care and education is infrastructure—building it will take real investment, not just tax credits and deductions.
New Paper: Unlocking ESSA’s Potential to Support Early Learning
New America and the BUILD Initiative explore major ESSA provisions that have implications for our nation’s youngest learners
New Committee on Financing Early Care and Education with a Highly Qualified Workforce
The Obama Early Childhood Legacy
The president has used his bully pulpit to lift early education into the national spotlight, but significant work remains.
What do DeVos and Price Picks Mean for Early Ed?
The future of early learning under the incoming Trump administration remains opaque.