America's Diversity of Children

Because nonprofit and voluntary organizations are primary vehicles of citizen action and participation, they serve as important mechanisms to understand how the needs of children can be heard in the policymaking process and how the quality of children’s lives can be improved.

This analysis compares the United States to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

This policy brief from the National Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics presents data on the reading and math readiness of Hispanic children at the start of kindergarten and their achievement at the end of fifth grade.

This article by the Foundation for Child Development’s former Young Scholar, Iliana Reyes, published in the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy (Volume 6, Pages 267-292), explores the ways in which young emergent bilingual children begin to develop literacy in two languages, Spanish and English.

Since 1985, racial/ethnic differences among Black, Hispanic, and White children have been narrowing overall.

The Foundation for Child Development’s Special Focus Report, Trends in Infancy/Early Childhood and Middle Childhood Well-Being, 1994-2006, presents the first wide-ranging picture of how children in their first decade of life are faring the the U.S. It is the first report to look comprehensively at the overall health, well-being, and quality of life of America’s youngest children — from birth through eleven years old, using the the Foundation’s Child Well-Being Index (CWI), and to track and compare child well-being across three primary stages of development — early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.

Annual Release - July 22, 2008 The 2008 annual release of the Foundation for Child Development’s Child Well-Being Index (CWI) finds that after an upward trend for eight years, 1994 through 2002, progress in American children’s quality of life has now moved into a stall/slow growth period.

Co-sponsored by Representative Mike Castle (R-DE) and Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), The New America Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development hosted An Ounce of Prevention: How Early Efforts for Education, Health and Safety Make a Critical Difference in the Well-Being of Children, on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2168, Capitol Hill.