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At National Journal: President's Plan is More than Pre-K
Last week's National Journal Education Experts blog asks whether the president’s plan to expand all 4-year-olds access to high quality pre-K is a step in the right direction.I say yes. His plan gives...
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Duncan's Smart Talk on Preschool Plan: 'Partnering with States'
At an elementary school in Maryland last Friday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talked about the President's plan for expanding preschool. Today in a blog post for the Huffington Post, I...
View ArticleNo, WSJ, the President’s Preschool Proposal is not ‘Head Start for All’
It was exactly a month ago that President Obama proposed to dramatically expand access to preschool. A few days later, the White House followed up with a three-page plan. We are now enjoying a season...
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Doing the Math: The Cost of Publicly Funded ‘Universal’ Pre-K
During the media frenzy that followed President Obama’s unprecedented call for expanding pre-K to all four-year-olds in the United States, we estimated that the additional cost to states and the...
View ArticleA Smart Preschool Debate at Fordham Institute, with One Thing Missing
Debates on preschool can sometimes devolve into misinformed squabbles over whether children can benefit and by how much. But a debate hosted last Thursday at the Fordham Institute was a refreshing...
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Doing the Math: The Cost of Publicly Funded ‘Universal’ Pre-K
The post originally appeared on our sister blog Early Ed Watch.During the media frenzy that followed President Obama’s unprecedented call for expanding pre-K to all four-year-olds in the United States,...
View ArticleEarly Learning Legislation in the 113th Congress
Building on the momentum of President Obama’s call to expand preschool access, the first months of the 113th Congress have seen the reintroduction of a number of bills addressing early education.Most...
View ArticleNew Federal Research Project on Building a Strong Early Ed Workforce
What knowledge and skills do teachers of young children, from preschool through third grade, need to best serve their students? Through a new, 18-month study of the pre-K-3rd teaching force, the...
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Kids at Risk of Repeating a Grade? Less So in N.J.
Last week, the National Institute for Early Education Research released new data on the impact of preschool from a study of New Jersey’s state-funded pre-K program. By following children’s progress for...
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Early Learning in the President’s 2014 Budget Request
Updated 4/10/2013 5:00 PM to reflect newly published information about the state matching portion of the Preschool for All plan.President Obama released his fiscal year 2014 budget request earlier...
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Key Questions on the Obama Administration's 2014 Education Budget Request
President Barack Obama submitted his fiscal year 2014 budget request to Congress on April 10, 2013. The New America Foundation has reviewed the president’s proposals and generated a list of key...
View ArticleNew Details on the President’s Pre-K Plan
The release of the President’s fiscal year 2014 budget provides a clearer picture of the quality standards states would have to meet to receive funds under the Obama administration’s “Preschool for...
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Head Start Winners Include Very Few Brand-New Providers
This guest post was written by J.M. Holland, a Head Start teacher in Richmond, Va., recent graduate of the educational leadership doctoral program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and blogger at...
View ArticleStudy Highlights Significant Benefits of Boston Public Schools Pre-K Program
Earlier this month, President Obama proposed a new program that would provide funding for states to offer pre-K to all 4-year-olds from low-income families. Some early education advocates celebrated...
View ArticleAt National Journal: The Tobacco Tax is a Place to Start
Last week, the National Journal Education Experts blog asked if funding pre-K with cigarette taxes was a good idea.I argue that seeking out new and creative funding streams has merit and that the...
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Last Year the “Worst in a Decade” for High-Quality Pre-K, Annual Report Finds
State pre-K funding shrunk by over half a billion dollars from the 2010-11 to the 2011-12 school year. That was the largest one-year decrease in the last 10 years, leading the National Institute for...
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A New Way to Track Pre-K—Hourly: Part 1
In today’s blog post, I will examine some basic problems with current data collection processes in pre-K, kindergarten and across the PreK-12 landscape. Look for Part 2 later this week, when I’ll...
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A New Way to Track Pre-K—Hourly: Part 2
In a blog post from earlier this week I examined the issues of funding streams and dosage. We currently have no way to track a state-funded pre-K center’s level of funding or the different ways it is...
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The Nightmare of Daycare
Editor's note: This piece originally appeared on New America's In The Tank blog. The average childcare worker in the U.S. earns less than a janitor. Sure, some daycare centers pay well, but the average...
View ArticleHHS Announces First Ever Federal Health and Safety Standards for Child Care
May 16, 2013Brigid SchulteMay 16, 2013URL:...
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