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The Foundation for Child Development’s New American Children (NAC) initiative builds knowledge about the well-being of children living in low-income immigrant families, how best to nurture and educate our newest Americans, and how to foster evidence-based policies and practices to enhance their life prospects.These key resources aim to inform policymakers, educators, researchers, and others about NAC issues.

PowerPoint from the Foundation for Child Development’s Former President Ruby Takanishi’s presentation on the Dual-Generation Strategy before the United Kingdom’s Child Poverty Unit.

This article published in the Portland Tribune describes the efforts to improve headstart programs in Oregon.

A report from First Focus, Living on the Edge: America’s Low-Earning Families, finds that 40 percent of all children — 30 million kids — grow up in households in which their parents are employed, yet the family still struggles with making ends meet.

The study chronicles how The New School Foundation influenced primary education reform in Washington by creating one of the leading PreK – 3rd programs in the United States.

The lore of the immigrant who comes to the United States to take advantage of our welfare system has a long history in America’s collective mythology, but it has little basis in fact.