Early Vocabulary Development and the Common Core
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Why We Can’t Forget the Early Grades
More focus is sorely needed on improving children's transition from pre-K into elementary school.
How Brilliant Are Promise Neighborhoods?
Are Promise Neighborhoods the best we can do in the context of a poorly-organized system?
Summer Learning: Literally Meeting Children Where They Are
Just because summer vacation usually means a break from class time, it does not also mean a break from learning.
Does Program Quality Matter for Head Start?
Apparently not all that much.
Building on Immigrants’ Strengths to Improve Their Children’s Early Education
The last few years have been particularly good ones for advocates of greater investments in early education access.
The Untold Story of School Finance Reforms in the United States
In an important study of PreK-12 public school finance, researchers tell the story of school finance reform in the US and its positive impac
Education Policy Is Health Policy: Full-Day Kindergarten Edition
The Task Force ultimately recommends all-day classes as an effective tool for promoting the health of low-income and minority students.
The Condition of Education – in Charts
When we take a step back and look at things on larger scale, it becomes clear that students in United States are, at least, making progress.
Inadequate Access to High Quality Early Education Programs Widens Readiness Gap
A new report examines potential relationships between the school-readiness gap and unequal access to high quality early education programs.
New Bill Seeks to Improve Infant and Toddler Child Care
Infant and toddler child care, for children ages birth to 3, is an especially important--and often neglected--part of the care continuum.
A Simple Policy Change to Help More Hungry Kids Eat? Where Do We Sign Up?
Debt collectors going after parents for lunch money? First graders going without food? This is a mess.
New Research: Montessori Pre-K Works for Latino Students
There’s a common assumption lurking in discussions about education reform: Instruction in basic skills is somehow in tension with enrichment
Evaluating the Design of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
The question remains whether existing indicators, like ECERS-R scores, are even the most reliable measure of program quality.
States Have Improved Pre-K Quality Over the Past Decade
It’s not hard to see where states are improving -- and where they haven’t made much progress at all.