Resources

Issues in PreK-3rd Education; Number Two FirstSchool is part of a national PreK-3rd movement of schools, districts, educators and universities seeking to improve how children from ages 3 to 8 learn and develop in schools.

Issues in PreK-3rd Education; Number Three FirstSchool is part of a national PreK-3rd movement of schools, districts, educators and universities seeking to improve how children from ages 3 to 8 learn and develop in schools.

Education finance policy researchers, Lawrence O. Picus, Allan Odden, and Michael Goetz, apply their evidence-based approach to estimate the national and state-by-state costs of PreK-3rd approaches.

Foundation for Child Development Policy to Action Brief Series No. 2 In a time of great fiscal constraints, policymakers and educators are focusing not only on raising student achievement, but also on making more strategic use of the available funds.

This Research Brief from Child Trends and The Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University of Albany, SUNY, finds that nearly one-half of children in immigrant families live in poverty when basic living and child care costs are taken into account.

The Foundation for Child Development’s Child Well-Being Index (CWI) is an annual comprehensive measure of how children are faring in the United States.

The creators of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) recently released a Policy Brief, Effective Teacher-Student Interactions.

In the May/June 2009 issue of the Harvard Education Letter, David McKay Wilson identifies key principles for PreK-3rd in Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the Age of Testing.