Resources
- Who’s Left Behind? Immigrant Children in High- and Low-LEP Schools
June 17, 2010 Seventy percent of LEP students in kindergarten through fifth grade are enrolled in only 10 percent of the country’s public elementary schools.
- July/August 2005 Issue of the Harvard Education Letter Dedicated to PreK-3
June 17, 2010 Deborah Stipek writes on Early Childhood Education at a Crossroads.
- PK-3: An Aligned and Coordinated Approach to Education for Children 3 to 8 Years Old
June 17, 2010 This Social Policy Report summarizes the research basis for the PreK-3rd approach.
- Testing Goes to Preschool
June 17, 2010 Will state and federal testing programs advance the goal of school readiness for all children?
- Journals Publish Two Evaluations of the Tulsa, OK Prekindergarten Program
June 17, 2010 Research on Tulsa, Oklahoma’s universal PK program finds that the PK experience enhances the school readiness of young children.
- Losing Ground in Early Childhood Education: Declining Workforce Qualifications in an Expanding Industry, 1979-2004
June 17, 2010 Since the early 1980s, there has been a large dip in the qualifications of the center-based early childhood workforce nationwide.
- Full-Day Kindergarten: A Study of State Policies in the United States
June 16, 2010 The 50-state study finds that less than two-thirds of America’s five-year-olds attend a full-day program and only nine states guarantee universal full-day kindergarten.
- PreK-3rd: Putting Full-Day Kindergarten in the Middle
June 15, 2010 A new Policy to Action Brief, PreK-3rd: Putting Full-Day Kindergarten in the Middle, calls for Full-Day-Kindergarten (FDK) to be an integral part of a 21st Century P-20 education system.