Social-Emotional Learning Group Releases Guide for Pre-K, Elementary School...
Last week the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) released its 2013 guide to preschool and K-5 social and emotional learning programs. The guide is an update of the...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar on Using Data on Children's Progress to Inform Teaching
Anyone who has grappled with questions of what to do with data from child assessments – whether based on observations of children's development over months or simple snapshots of early literacy...
View ArticleIn TIME: Background TV, Toys, and Toddlers
The holiday season can lead parents to fixate on finding the perfect toy. But it's worth thinking not only about the toy, but about the environment around it. In a piece for TIME's Ideas column this...
View ArticleNAESP: Principals Need to Know about Early Childhood Development
The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) has released new policy proposals to better recruit, prepare and build the capacity of effective principals. One of these new proposals...
View ArticleProposed Changes to the Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge
This month the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services released proposed changes to future Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge competitions, which would be limited to states that...
View ArticleRecaps and Highlights from Eight PreK-3rd Webinars
Since February 2012, we’ve been tracking (and live-tweeting) the PreK-3rd Grade National Work Group’s series of webinars on reducing the achievement gap by fourth grade. Today the work group, of which...
View ArticleChild Care Legislation Heightens Emphasis on Quality
Last week, amidst the release of multiple reauthorization bills for No Child Left Behind, key members of the Senate produced a draft bill for reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block...
View ArticleChild Care, Preschool, and American Families
The last few news cycles have confirmed what researchers already knew: American families, conceptions of marriage, and views on gender are changing fast. In 1975, nearly half of American households...
View ArticleNew Research: Targeted Parent Training Can Help Students Focus—and Succeed
As the Obama Administration ramps up its push for expanded early childhood education access for all children, it’s important to ensure that preschool quality remains a big part of the conversation....
View ArticleWill New Pre-K Accountability Metrics in D.C. Enhance—Or Undercut—Pre-K Quality?
Like many in D.C.’s family-heavy Ward 4, Sam Chaltain sends his children to charter schools. His older son attends Latin American Montessori Bilingual, and his younger son will follow in a few years....
View ArticlePre-K Debates: Access and Quality
In the early education policy world, the research consensus supporting public investment in high-quality pre-K programs is overwhelming. We know that money spent on these programs leads to big savings...
View ArticleCorrecting Pernicious Myths About Dual Language Learners
Almost every discussion of dual-language learning students in the United States begins with statistics illustrating their growing numbers. This is understandable, since the number of districts that...
View ArticleStorify: Delaware Education Leaders on Implementing Comprehensive Education...
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View ArticleUpdate on DC’s Early Childhood Performance Management Framework
Last month, the DC Public Charter School Board officially adopted the new early childhood performance management framework with a few good revisions. But there is still a lot of room for improvement.In...
View ArticleTired of Federal Gridlock? Take a Look at Education Reform in the States
As the government shutdown continues (with no end yet visible), it’s easy—and wholly understandable—to get cynical. If we can’t manage basic stuff like funding the federal government, it’s hard to...
View ArticlePre-K is Win-Win, Concludes a New Report
Early education is one of the most powerful ways to close the achievement gap between low-income and minority children and their more-advantaged peers. But all too often, pre-K advocates cite the same,...
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