All Pre-K–3rd Resources (cont'd)

This Policy to Action Brief recommends that the federal government convene a national advisory group to develop guidelines that will assist states in developing fully integrated PreK-12 longitudinal data systems, a critical first step to assessing children’s early education experiences and the impact of early education on later school success.

We investigate primary school precursors to criminal involvement in early adulthood.

Although school attainment is a cumulative process combining mastery of both academic and behavioral skills, most studies have offered only a piecemeal view of the associations between early childhood capacities and subsequent schooling outcomes.

Dr. Sharon Ritchie of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presented, “FirstSchool: Improving the PreK-3rd Grade School Experience of African-American, Latino, and Low-Income Children” at the Annual PreK-3rd Leadership Conference hosted by the Advocates for Children of New Jersey.

This report, Building and Supporting an Aligned System: A Vision for Transforming Education Across the Pre-K-Grade Three Years, by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Foundation’s Task Force on Early Learning, offers ten recommendations for building an aligned system of early learning for children from age three to eight.