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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
Supporting Our Youngest Dual Language Learners
Takeaways from California’s DLL Pilot Study on effective strategies and opportunities to support DLLs in early learning settings
Why and How to Improve Pre-K Assessments: What Do Head Start Providers Think?
Head Start educators reported on challenges they’ve faced collecting and using assessments and identifying opportunities for improvement
Announcing the 2022-24 LSX Fellows
Meet the 2022-24 LSX Fellows: mid-career professionals—across five sectors and eight countries—focused on children’s learning, ages 2 to 12.
Kindergrams: Elevating Children’s Voices Across Cultures
An LSX Project in which caregivers share children’s voices as they talk about culture and friendship, around the world.
Playful Learning Challenge: Making Math Fun for Families
This LSX project brings families 10 gamified activities, all based on early math development, to share via video on social media.
Tech Together: A New Model for Using Phones with Young Kids
An LSX group highlights how caregivers can support children’s learning by simply using maps, stopwatches, and the camera on smartphones.
Meaningfully Incorporating Equity into QRIS
QRIS are complex systems and there is a much work to be done to improve them and ensure they promote equity.
Strengthening Assessments of Young Children’s Learning: Perspectives from Home-based Pre-K Providers
Elevating the perspectives of home-based providers in the development and implementation of better assessment tools is critical.
Building Better Pre-K Assessments to Support Dual Language Learners and their Educators
New America and MDRC recently hosted a webinar bringing together leading researchers and practitioners to envision new assessments for DLLs.
The Impact of Teacher Turnover and Substitute Shortages on Young Children
For children who depend on relationships with their teachers in order to thrive, change is not happening soon enough.