Preschool programs strive to involve parents, train teachers to improve preschool outcomes
K-12
Using Schools to Bring a Dying Rust Belt City Back to Life
In East St. Louis, the school district is helping parents get back on their feet
Oft-Overlooked Threads Woven into ECE’s Thorny Knot
To facilitate interaction among ideas presented in Moving Beyond False Choices for Early Childhood Educators, Series Editor Stacie G. Goffin offers opening comments. For readers new to the Series, her introduction explains the series’ intent. Laura Bornfreund was asked to review the series’ most recent five blogs and identify emerging themes along with their policy implications. She lifts up three issues… Read more »
Let’s Be Honest: It’s About Sexism, Classism, and Racism
To facilitate interaction among ideas presented in Moving Beyond False Choices for Early Childhood Educators, Series Editor Stacie G. Goffin offers opening comments. For readers new to the Series, her introduction explains the series’ intent. Maurice Sykes urges us to delve deeper to understand why the issues of preparation and education, compensation and status, and… Read more »
Schools Lead the Way to Zero-Energy Buildings, and Use Them for Student Learning
Finding “vampires,” angling solar panels, tracking cafeteria waste – all become lessons
Dual Language Learner Data Gaps: Takeaways for State Policy Leaders
This is the fifth and final post in New America’s blog series, DLL Data Gaps, and summarizes key findings and recommendations for state policy leaders. Click here to learn more about this project and access the other blogs in the series. Across a variety of domains, states need better data to more equitably serve dual language learners (DLLs) in… Read more »
Extracting Success in Pre-K Teaching
High-quality teachers are an essential component of an effective pre-K program. After all, young children’s learning depends on the quality of interactions they have and the relationships they form with adults. While there is much debate in the early education field right now about teacher qualifications and preparation requirements, there has been less discussion on… Read more »
New Study Brings Insight into Parental Choices in Early Education
Over the past several decades, the number of young children enrolled in formal, center-based early childhood education, which can include Head Start, state-funded pre-K, and private child care programs, has grown dramatically. For example, while only 23 percent of four-year-olds were enrolled in formal early learning programs in 1968, that number increased to 65 percent… Read more »
Scaling Investment in Open Textbooks Through the Omnibus Bill
The Omnibus bill introduces a new Open Textbook Pilot, investing in projects that create or expand the use of open educational sources.
Bids to Bring Fiber Internet to Schools are Denied Funding Seven Times More Often Than Other Projects
Federal E-rate money could bring these high-speed connections to rural schools, but funding is elusive
