All Financing Early Childhood Education Resources (cont'd)

For more than a decade New Jersey’s schools have served as a national model for providing high-quality early childhood education programs to thousands of low-income children, including an ambitious plan approved by the Legislature two years ago to reach even more 3- and 4-year-olds by September 2013.

The organization hosted a summit of business and community leaders October 5, 2010 to spark discussion and explicate on the high-dollar return on investment associated with early learning and care.

This is a collection of PreK-3rd’s key resources broken down by: The Case for PreK-3rd; Financing PreK-3rd; Implementing PreK-3rd; Leadership by Educators; Teacher Preparation/Professional Development; Educating Dual-Language Learner (DLL) Students; Federal Policy; State Policy; School District Policy; Research Basis for PreK-3rd; and, Assessment and Evaluation.

New America Foundation makes the case for PK-3. This is the first of a series of papers to define a PK-3 agenda in advance of NCLB reauthorization.

The Foundation for Child Development’s Working Paper Series This Working Paper focuses on feasible ways to finance universal pre-school.

In many states, one of the major barriers to implementing PK-3 is funding Prekindergarten.

In this excerpt from his book, Building Blocks, Gene Maeroff examines how schools can help children be successful in the early grades.

This paper explores the wide range of ways in which school districts are using Title I funds for early education through Kindergarten and examines how the implementation of NCLB has impacted those investments.