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The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) cannot achieve its goals of narrowing achievement gaps and improving student learning unless it provides much stronger support for high-quality education from Prekindergarten through Third Grade (PreK-3rd). A new issue brief from the New America Foundation, 10 New Ideas for Early Education in the NCLB Reauthorization, asks Congress to consider NCLB policies and programs that have the potential to affect education during the PreK-3rd years as part of NCLB reauthorization.

In May 2006, Grantmakers for Education (GFE) convened grantmakers, educators and researchers for a member briefing — Making the Most of Our Investments: How PK-3 Alignment Can Close the Achievement Gap from the Start — to examine the rationale and promising approaches for aligning children’s education experiences from PK through Grade Three.

Behavior problems during the preschool years are meaningful predictors of continued behavior problems, poor peer standing, and academic difficulties during Kindergarten.

While quality Pre-kindergarten programs are important contributors to young children’s educational success, systems at both the state and district levels, must be in place to provide a continuum of quality educational experiences from Pre-kindergarten through Grade Three.

In a recent Harvard Education Letter interview, Robert Pianta, Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, discusses the value of the Classroom Assessing Scoring system, a classroom observation instrument known as CLASS. CLASS can be an important part of professional development efforts to create high quality learning experiences for children in PreK-3rd programs by providing a common metric for documenting what goes on in classrooms from grade to grade.

Since 1985, racial/ethnic differences among Black, Hispanic, and White children have been narrowing overall.

The Foundation for Child Development’s Advancing PreK-3rd Series No. 8 Educational outcomes for young English Language Learners (ELL) from ages three to eight can improve if we abandon outdated misconceptions and inform our practices with current scientific findings.

This study conducted by The Urban Institute and funded by the National Council of La Raza, documents the impact of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) worksite raids on the children of undocumented workers.