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By Star-Ledger Editorial Board.

On his last day of pre-kindergarten, Misael Rivas left his classroom at the Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center in Union City heartbroken.

By Sarah Garland.

A new FCD Policy to Action Brief, PreK-3rd: Putting Full-Day Kindergarten in the Middle, calls for Full-Day-Kindergarten (FDK) to be an integral part of a 21st Century P-20 education system.

Misael Rivas is a skinny four-year-old with big eyes and a big personality that sometimes gets him in trouble at his preschool, the Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center in Union City, N.J. His favorite things are fire trucks, table saws, and, despite the occasional call home from his teacher about misbehavior, going to school.

The 2010 Child Well-Being Index (CWI) gets press in USA Today.

Impact of the Great Recession on Children The 2010 annual release of the FCD Child Well-Being Index (CWI) is the first report offering comprehensive data on the impact of the Great Recession on American children’s quality-of-life.

Integrating Children of Immigrant Families A new UNICEF report from Donald J. Hernandez, Suzanne Macartney, and Victoria L. Blanchard, presents international data on children of immigrants in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.