All America's Diversity of Children Resources (cont'd)
- Para Nuestros Ninos: Expanding and Improving Early Education for Hispanics
The Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics released a national report, Para Nuestros Niños: Expanding and Improving Early Education for Hispanics, in Washington, D.C. on March 8, 2007.
June 8, 2010 • Read MoreChild Well-Being Index (CWI) 2007 ReportFollowing an upward swing that peaked in the early part of this decade, the progress being made improving American children’s quality of life has come to a standstill, according to the Foundation for Child Development’s 2007 Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI), an annual comprehensive measure of how children are faring in the United States.
June 8, 2010 • Read MoreLet the War on the Poverty Line CommenceYou’d have to search far and wide to find someone who thinks we do a decent job measuring poverty.
June 8, 2010 • Read MoreWho Speaks for America’s Children?: The Role of Child Advocates in Public PolicyBecause 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.
June 7, 2010 • Read More2007 Child Well-Being Index (CWI) Special Focus Report on International ComparisonsThis analysis compares the United States to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
June 7, 2010 • Read MoreThe School Readiness and Academic Achievement in Reading and Mathematics of Young Hispanic Children in the United StatesThis 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.
June 7, 2010 • Read MoreExploring Connections Between Emergent Biliteracy and BilingualismThis 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.
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