Don’t Use Kindergarten Readiness Assessments for Accountability
While KRAs have several benefits for teaching and learning, the results can also be used inappropriately.
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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.
New Report Puts Spotlight on Early Elementary Years
How can state leaders ensure that early education gains persist over time?
There’s A Lot We Can Learn From Pre-K in Tennessee
You Can’t Have Professionals Without a Profession
Early childhood education isn’t yet a profession, note Laura Bornfreund and Stacie G. Goffin. But it can be.