The Shifting Democratic Party Education Platform
This is mostly the sort of stuff and nonsense grist for slow cable news cycles.
PreK–12 Education
Department of Education Charter School Program Grants Focus on DLLs
While there’s increasing evidence that DLLs follow unique patterns of linguistic development, these do not constitute deficits.
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.
The Little-Known Bill With a Big Impact on Education Research
Reauthorization for the Education Sciences Reform Act has captured the attention of certain circles. In case you’re not in those circles, he
A New Model for Family Involvement?
California’s controversial Parent Trigger law is one indirect attempt to increase family involvement by giving families more power.
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
The Case for Giving Money to Poor Parents
Given the politics of anti-poverty programs, you already know what you think of that idea by the time you’ve reached this sentence.
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.