All Financing Early Childhood Education Resources (cont'd)

In a Special Report, Life Changes: The Case for Early Investment in Our Kids, The American Prospect highlighted the need to continue the investment in children’s education to support strong Third Grade outcomes.

In May 2006, Grantmakers for Education (GFE) convened grantmakers, educators and researchers for a member briefing — Making the Most of Our Investments: How PK-3 Alignment Can Close the Achievement Gap from the Start — to examine the rationale and promising approaches for aligning children’s education experiences from PK through Grade Three.

The Foundation for Child Development Policy to Action Brief Series No. 1 Why do so many Americans believe that elementary schools are doing a fine job despite clear evidence to the contrary?

Issues in PreK-3rd Education; Number Two FirstSchool is part of a national PreK-3rd movement of schools, districts, educators and universities seeking to improve how children from ages 3 to 8 learn and develop in schools.

Education finance policy researchers, Lawrence O. Picus, Allan Odden, and Michael Goetz, apply their evidence-based approach to estimate the national and state-by-state costs of PreK-3rd approaches.

Foundation for Child Development Policy to Action Brief Series No. 2 In a time of great fiscal constraints, policymakers and educators are focusing not only on raising student achievement, but also on making more strategic use of the available funds.

Lawrence O. Picus and Associates review research on parent engagement programs at the PreK-3rd level, and identify programs with greater promise of academic success for children.

Dear Secretary Duncan: Thank you for your invitation to comment on the Department’s proposed priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria for awarding the Investing in Innovation funds.