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The Foundation for Child Development’s Special Focus Report, Trends in Infancy/Early Childhood and Middle Childhood Well-Being, 1994-2006, presents the first wide-ranging picture of how children in their first decade of life are faring the the U.S. It is the first report to look comprehensively at the overall health, well-being, and quality of life of America’s youngest children — from birth through eleven years old, using the the Foundation’s Child Well-Being Index (CWI), and to track and compare child well-being across three primary stages of development — early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.

New Jersey has a unique opportunity to realize a PK-3 vision.

Annual Release - July 22, 2008 The 2008 annual release of the Foundation for Child Development’s Child Well-Being Index (CWI) finds that after an upward trend for eight years, 1994 through 2002, progress in American children’s quality of life has now moved into a stall/slow growth period.

Co-sponsored by Representative Mike Castle (R-DE) and Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), The New America Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development hosted An Ounce of Prevention: How Early Efforts for Education, Health and Safety Make a Critical Difference in the Well-Being of Children, on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2168, Capitol Hill.

AMERICA’S VANISHING POTENTIAL: The Case For PreK-3rd Education Many people like to believe that American children are generally doing quite well in school.

New Jersey’s new school funding formula will provide thousands of 3- and 4-year-olds from low-income families with the opportunity to experience a high-quality preschool program.

In a November/December 2008 Harvard Education Letter article, David McKay Wilson looks at Universal PreK and the challenges its implementation brings to public elementary schools.

In this article for Developmental Psychology, Han examined 14,000 children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey - Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) to determine school’s role in shaping the academic performance of children of immigrants compared with native-born non-Hispanic white children.