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Will New Pre-K Accountability Metrics in D.C. Enhance—Or Undercut—Pre-K Quality?
Like many in D.C.’s family-heavy Ward 4, Sam Chaltain sends his children to charter schools. His older son attends Latin American Montessori Bilingual, and his younger son will follow in a few years....
View ArticlePre-K Debates: Access and Quality
In the early education policy world, the research consensus supporting public investment in high-quality pre-K programs is overwhelming. We know that money spent on these programs leads to big savings...
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Math Apps, Preschoolers and Framing New Research Questions
For the past two years, I’ve been following the creation and development of Next Generation Preschool Math, a research and development project funded by the National Science Foundation. The project is...
View ArticleCorrecting Pernicious Myths About Dual Language Learners
Almost every discussion of dual-language learning students in the United States begins with statistics illustrating their growing numbers. This is understandable, since the number of districts that...
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Child Care Workforce Lacking in Opportunities
Federal data suggest that in 2010, the nation’s nearly 1.3 million child care workers earned an average of around $9.28 per hour, or $19,300 per year. The lowest-paid 10 percent of workers earned less...
View ArticleAligning Investments in Parenting With Investments in Early Education
Alignment is critical in early education policy. That goes for curriculum, instruction, standards, and much more. To be highly effective, public early education programs need to be: 1) accessible to...
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New Report Shines Spotlight on Negative Effects of Pre-K Absenteeism
This month is labeled the first-ever “Attendance Awareness Month” by the advocacy group Attendance Works, and there is plenty to which we ought to be paying attention. A 2008 study by the National...
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Early Educational Data Comments to U.S. Department of Ed
The Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) project is an initiative headed by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics to create comparable, consistent data...
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New School District-Level Pre-K Data Reflect Drop in State Spending
This post also appeared on our sister blog, Early Ed Watch.In February’s State of the Union address, President Obama outlined a new proposal to expand state pre-K programs to all low- and...
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New School District-Level Pre-K Data Reflect Drop in State Spending
This post also appeared on our sister blog, Ed Money Watch.In February’s State of the Union address, President Obama outlined a new proposal to expand state pre-K programs to all low- and...
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Measuring What Matters in Quality Rating & Improvement Systems
For more than the past decade, states have worked to build quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) to help rate and improve child care centers and preschool programs. The quality ratings, often...
View ArticleStorify: Delaware Education Leaders on Implementing Comprehensive Education...
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Amid Financial Collapse Detroit Builds a Promising Early Learning Model
This guest post was written by Paul Nyhan, a journalist and early education expert. He writes about early education at Thrive by Five Washington.In the next few months, guest blogger Paul Nyhan will...
View ArticleTired of Federal Gridlock? Take a Look at Education Reform in the States
As the government shutdown continues (with no end yet visible), it’s easy—and wholly understandable—to get cynical. If we can’t manage basic stuff like funding the federal government, it’s hard to...
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Focusing on the ‘Word Gap’ With Help from Hillary Clinton
Help babies and toddlers learn words. This seemingly simple task has become a rallying cry for early childhood advocates over the past decade. Well-trained preschool teachers can cite chapter and verse...
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Shutdown Got Your Data? Check Out Our Federal Education Database
The federal government has been officially shut down for over two weeks now, and the impact has been real: furloughed employees across the country, Head Start programs shut down (and some reopened),...
View ArticleStorify: Too Much Evidence to Ignore
This week, New America's Early Education Initiative hosted an event reviewing the research on pre-K, published in a new report, “Investing in Our Children: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education,"...
View ArticlePre-K is Win-Win, Concludes a New Report
Early education is one of the most powerful ways to close the achievement gap between low-income and minority children and their more-advantaged peers. But all too often, pre-K advocates cite the same,...
View ArticleA Closer Look at FirstSchool’s PreK-3rd Grade Approach
The September/October 2013 edition of Principal Magazine, a publication of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, spotlights early learning in the context of aligning...
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We're Running Late
Slide headline: We're Running Late Support for early education spans across parties and industries. Why hasn't there been more progress? Image credit: flickr / vastateparksstaff...
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