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Abstract With a focus on the United States, this paper addresses the basic social indicators question: How are we doing?

This report highlights problems nationwide with the licensing and preparation of teachers who work with young children in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first-, second-, and third-grade classrooms.

Abstract Children from immigrant families are the fastest growing group of children in the United States.

Abstract This paper analyzes the challenges and opportunities posed by today’s education reform debate for the early education and language learning of immigrant, limited English proficient, and English language learner students 3 to 8 years old.

Abstract Intervening in the parent generation can improve current and future prospects in the child generation.

Abstract This data brief is the fourth in a series that profiles children of immigrants using up-to-date census data and other sources.

Middle-Class Children Falling Further Behind Declining Prospects for Middle Class Kids Will Be Worsened by Budget Cuts NEW YORK, NY – America’s middle-class children have been steadily falling further behind their more privileged peers for the past quarter century – but the worst of the fallout has been held in check by essential policies and programs that could be unraveled, depending on key budget decisions, according to a new study released by the Foundation for Child Development.

PreK-3rd Policy to Action Brief: #6 In 1974, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Lau v. Nichols that 1,800 Chinese-speaking children in the San Francisco public schools were entitled to English-language instruction or other support to help them understand what was happening in their classrooms.