Resources
- Career Development and Universal Prekindergarten: What Now? What Next?
June 11, 2010 Concerns about the qualifications, turnover, diversity, and compensation of the early childhood workforce are growing as more children attend private and public preschool programs.
- Universal Pre-kindergarten in Georgia: A Case Study of Georgia’s Lottery-Funded Pre-K Program
June 11, 2010 In 1995, Georgia became the first state to provide universal Prekindergarten to all four-year-olds.
- Kindergarten: An Overlooked Educational Policy Priority
June 11, 2010 The Foundation for Child Development Working Paper Series Kindergarten serves as many children’s introduction to the public education system.
- Achieving Full-Day Kindergarten in New Mexico: A Case Study
June 9, 2010 New Mexico, a state rarely in the forefront of educational innovation, passed legislation in 2000 to phase-in voluntary full-day kindergarten (FDK) classes for all five-year-olds.
- Promise or Peril: Immigrants, LEP Students and the No Child Left Behind Act
June 9, 2010 This publication draws a statistical portrait of immigrant and limited English proficient (LEP) students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
- Describing Immigrant Communities
June 9, 2010 This presentation includes results from past and present work (in some cases still being drafted) on immigrant populations using several data sources for national, state and local-level analyses.
- A Profile of America’s Future: Young Children in Immigrant Families in New York City
June 9, 2010 This PowerPoint presentation provides essential data on changing patterns of immigration in New York City.
- Demographic Change and the Life Circumstances of Immigrant Families
June 9, 2010 Several major demographic shifts over the past half-century have transformed who we are and how we live in this country in many ways.