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- Counting Kids and Tracking Funds in Pre-K and Kindergarten: Falling Short at the Local Level
September 26, 2012 This issue brief from the New America Foundation, Counting Kids and Tracking Funds in Pre-K and Kindergarten: Falling Short at the Local Level, released in concert with the expansion of the FEBP database, details the problems that stem from states’ lack of data and outlines policy recommendations.
- Kindergarten: Why We Need to Change it
November 4, 2011 This presentation was given by Dr. Jason Sachs, the Director of Early Childhood Education for the Boston Public Schools, at the Annual PreK-3rd Leadership Conference hosted by the Advocates for Children of New Jersey in conjunction with its partners from the New Jersey Department of Education, the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association, and Brookdale Community College.
- Linking Learning: Building Quality Kindergarten in New Jersey
December 7, 2010 ACNJ provides a snapshot of Kindergarten in New Jersey and provide policy recommendations for the state.
- Full-Day Kindergarten: A Study of State Policies in the United States
June 16, 2010 The 50-state study finds that less than two-thirds of America’s five-year-olds attend a full-day program and only nine states guarantee universal full-day kindergarten.
- PreK-3rd: Putting Full-Day Kindergarten in the Middle
June 15, 2010 A new 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.
- All Together Now: State Experiences in Using Community-Based Child Care to Provide Pre-Kindergarten
June 15, 2010 This Policy Brief from the Center for Law and Social Policy’s Child Care and Early Education Series finds that 29 states use a mixed-delivery method approach for pre-Kindergarten programs.
- Mathematics Achievement of Spanish-Speaking Kindergartners and the Impact of Teacher Characteristics: A Mediation Hypothesis
June 14, 2010 Jensen, B. (2006). Mathematics Achievement of Spanish-Speaking Kindergartners and the Impact of Teacher Characteristics: A Mediation Hypothesis.
- Kindergarten: The Overlooked School Year
June 14, 2010