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A new report from the New America Foundation shows how key state officials, early childhood advocates, and school reformers have taken important first steps towards a seamless PreK-3rd early education system in California.

A new report from the New America Foundation finds that New Jersey has made tremendous strides in improving children’s access to high-quality early learning experiences, enabling some districts to nearly close the achievement gap.

Recognizing the importance of connecting education research to policy, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) have collaborated on the development and implementation of this institute directed to building capacity among early career scholars.

This report examines the consequences of parental arrest, detention, and deportation on 190 children in 85 families in six locations, providing in-depth details on parent-child separations, economic hardships, and children’s well-being.

A number of districts in Washington State are charting new territory.

This report from the New America Foundation recommends policy frameworks to create PreK-3rd approaches that fix our fragmented educational pipeline.

This report provides a first-time analysis of the nation’s current spending on PreKindergartners and Kindergartners by examining 2008 federal expenditures from more than 100 federal programs on children ages 3 through 5. Findings show that six programs accounted for approximately two-thirds of all federal expenditures on this age group in 2008: Head Start, Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and three tax programs (the child tax credit, the earned income tax credit, and the dependent exemption). Programs that specifically focus on the care and education of children ages 3 through 5 represent 23 percent of total federal expenditures.

This report provides a first-time analysis of the nation’s current spending on elementary-age children by examining 2008 federal expenditures from more than 100 federal programs on children ages 6 through 11. Findings show that six programs account for 63 percent of the expenditures on elementary-age children.