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IES Report: Early Interventions and Early Childhood Education
On July 23rd the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) released a report on research pertaining to early childhood education. The report describes findings supported by IES early intervention and...
View ArticleExpanding Pre-K? Check Out Washington State
Forty states operate public pre-K programs, but 4-year-olds are far from guaranteed a seat in the classroom. Last year, the share of 4-year-olds enrolled in public pre-K ranged from nearly 80 percent...
View ArticleMaryland Warning System IDs Potential High School Dropouts in First Grade
The use of data in schools has become an increasingly prevalent practice, particularly in light of federal efforts to resolve some of the technical and practical challenges around student data. Schools...
View ArticleThree States with NCLB Waivers Slow to Make Student Growth Part of Teacher...
Last week, officials at the U.S. Department of Education put three states’ No Child Left Behind waivers on high-risk status – Kansas, Oregon, and Washington – for not following through on their teacher...
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Will 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 ArticlePreK-3rd Grade Work Elevated in New Round of Race to the top – ELC
Last week, the US Departments of Education and Health and Human Services released the application for the next round of the Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge program. This new round includes a...
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...
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Child Care Workforce Lacking in Opportunities
Federal data suggest that in 2010, the nation’s nearly 1.3 million child care workers earned an average of around $9.28 per hour, or $19,300 per year. The lowest-paid 10 percent of workers earned less...
View ArticleAligning Investments in Parenting With Investments in Early Education
Alignment is critical in early education policy. That goes for curriculum, instruction, standards, and much more. To be highly effective, public early education programs need to be: 1) accessible to...
View ArticleWebinar: A Portrait of PreK-3rd Grade Alignment in San Antonio
On Thursday, October 3 from 1 pm - 2 pm EDT, the PreK-3rd Grade National Work Group will host a webinar, A Portrait of PreK-3rd Grade Alignment in San Antonio. Registration is now open here. This...
View ArticleStorify: Delaware Education Leaders on Implementing Comprehensive Education...
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Update 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...
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Focusing on the ‘Word Gap’ With Help from Hillary Clinton
Help babies and toddlers learn words. This seemingly simple task has become a rallying cry for early childhood advocates over the past decade. Well-trained preschool teachers can cite chapter and verse...
View ArticleStorify: Too Much Evidence to Ignore
This week, New America's Early Education Initiative hosted an event reviewing the research on pre-K, published in a new report, “Investing in Our Children: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education,"...
View ArticleCan New Accreditation Standards Improve Teacher Preparation?
Teacher preparation programs have come under fire in recent years for poorly preparing new teachers to meet the needs of today’s students and the demands of education reforms. Most recently, the...
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,...
View ArticleA Closer Look at FirstSchool’s PreK-3rd Grade Approach
The September/October 2013 edition of Principal Magazine, a publication of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, spotlights early learning in the context of aligning...
View ArticleTroubling & Promising Findings in NCTQ Scan of State Teacher Eval Policies
Of the 40 states and D.C. that require student achievement as a factor in teacher evaluation, fewer than half have an explicit policy for using student achievement measures to evaluate teachers of...
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