Early Childhood News and Reports
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- Child Trends: Early Childhood Highlights
- Florida Cabinet for Children and Youth Report: Kindergarten Readiness Turn the Curve Exercise Summary
- Head Start Impact Study January 2010
- New Mexico PreK Significantly Improves Key Academic Foundations for Children
- Early Child Language Mediates the Relation Between Home Environment and School Readiness
- Early Childhood Trend Update
- Disparities in Early Learning and Development: Lessons from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth Cohort
- Pressure-cooker kindergarten A new emphasis on testing and test preparation -- brought on by politicians, not early education experts -- is hurting the youngest students.
- Disparities in Early Learning and Development: Lessons from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
- Findings from Project Upgrade
- The State of Florida’s Child Report
- Early Reading First Child Language and Literacy Assessment Report 2008-2009
- Economy Threatens Impressive Expansion of State Pre-K Programs
- A Case Study: The Billion-Dollar Bet On A Community’s Future
- Early Childhood Research Quarterly - School readiness gains made by ethnically diverse children in poverty
attending center-based childcare and public school pre-kindergarten
programs. Click here to read full report. - David Lawrence, Jr.-W.K. Kellogg Learning Labs Keynote Address -March 23, 2009
- April 8, 2008 – 61% of Voluntary Prekindergarten Children Are Ready for Kindergarten; Accountability Process Needs Improvement . This report was written by the Office of Program Policy and Government Accountability, and looks into the positive effect that Florida’s VPK has had on children. Click here for the full report.
- Kids Count 2010 Florida Data Book from the University of South Florida
- Meeting the Workforce Needs of the Future……Means Meeting the Developmental Needs of Young Children Today from Partnership for America’s Economic Success
- Non Profit leaders Face new Realities, read the Status Report on non profit care.
- State Budget Cuts: America's Lids Pay the Price
- Federal Context and Funding Opportunities for PreK-3rd from the New America Foundation
- Do Job Demands Undermine Parenting? A Daily Analysis of Spillover and Crossover Effects.
- Family Capital: How First-Generation Higher Education Students Break the Intergenerational Cycle
- Improving the Numerical Understanding of Children from Low-Income Families
- EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids
- Child Care and the New Economy
- Inspiring Innovation: Creative State Financing Structures for Infant-Toddler Services
- Early Learning Systems of Care: A Proven Investment Strategy
- Early Learning Takes Top Billing in Education Reform
- State Child Care Assistance Policies 2008: Too Little Progress for Children and Families
- Can you afford childcare?
- Presentation by James Heckman
- Collaborating with the Every Child Matters Education Fund, Robert G. Lynch, Chair of the Department of Economics at Washington College, published a study: Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation - Public Investment in High-Quality Prekindergarten.Dr. Lynch highlights that "long-term studies of ECD[Early Childhood Development participants have consistently found that investing in children has several lasting, important benefits for the participants, their families, and society at large including taxpayers." Click here for the full report
- Hard Times put Kids at Risk
- 173 Area Pre-K Programs Show Poor Scores
- If Florida Really Cares about Kids, Here's How to Show it
- Understanding Quality in Context: Child Care Centers, Communities, Markets, and Public Policy published by the Urban Institute
- ELC's Quality Counts is included in this new and extensive study of QRS initiatives around the nation
- Evaluation of Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating System in Childcare Settings
- Making Long-Lasting changes with the Environmental Rating Scale by Thelma Harris
- The Missouri Quality Rating System School Readiness Study
- ABC’s of Miami-Dade’s Quality Rating Improvement System Quality Counts
- Build Supply of Quality Care: Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care Research-Based Rationale
- Stable, Quality Subsidy Policy: Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care Research-Based Rationale
- OPPAGA: Child Care Services Placement Options for Legislative Consideration Research Memorandum
- OPPAGA Report Oct 2008 - Early Learning Coalitions’ Administration and Program Support Expenses Vary Widely; Opinions Divided on Coalition Efficiency. Click here to read full report.
- The New Demography of American Motherhood published by the Pew Research Center
- The Changing Faces of America’s Children and Youth published by the Carsey Institute
- Preventing the Maltreatment of Children (vol 19 no.2 Fall 2009) published by The Future of Children
- The Voice of Experience: How Social Scientists Communicate Family Research to Policymakers
- Navigating Interdependence: How Adolescents Raised Solely by Grandparents Experience Their Family Relationships
- Shadowed by War: Building Community Capacity to Support Military Families
- Multiple Child-Care Arrangements and Young Children's Behavioral Outcomes
- Parental depression, parenting behaviors, and behavior problems in young children
- Children's and adults' conceptualization and evaluation of lying and truth-telling
- The State of Care IndexTM is the first survey to measure families' attitudes towards caregiving, the unique pressures they face and how child and senior care responsibilities impact daily life.
- How Are America's Children Doing? Who Are America's Children?
- Spreading the wealth: Leadership at all levels
- The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture
- Social-emotional Development in Early Childhood: What Every Policymaker Should Know
- Supporting a Diverse and Culturally Competent Workforce: Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care Research-Based Rationale
