Resources
- Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation
June 8, 2010 In many states, one of the major barriers to implementing PK-3 is funding Prekindergarten.
- Achieving Quality Early Childhood Education for All: Insights from the Policy Innovation Diffusion Research
June 8, 2010 Inadequacies both in the provision and the quality of early childhood education in the United States are well documented.
- State Initiatives to Promote Early Learning: Next Steps in Coordinating Subsidized Child Care, Head Start, and State Prekindergarten
June 8, 2010 States often struggle with two key social goals: the need to promote school readiness for children and the need to support working families given increasing labor force participation among mothers with young children.
- Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers
June 8, 2010 Well before formal schooling begins, children’s early experiences lay the foundations for their later social behavior, emotional regulation, and literacy.
- Business Leaders as Legislative Advocates for Children
June 8, 2010 Several of Boston’s key business leaders assumed active and very visible roles as advocates for children during the 1996 and 1997 Massachusetts legislative sessions.
- Let the War on the Poverty Line Commence
June 8, 2010 You’d have to search far and wide to find someone who thinks we do a decent job measuring poverty.
- Why Are Early Education and Care Wages So Low?: A Critical Guide to Common Explanations
June 8, 2010 Common explanations for low wages for early education and care work are inadequate and misleading.
- Excerpt from Building Blocks
June 7, 2010 In this excerpt from his book, Building Blocks, Gene Maeroff examines how schools can help children be successful in the early grades.