Why focus on Lancaster County’s youngest kids could break cycle of poverty
Last week I posted Thomas Friedman’s article about civic renewal in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. On Sunday Lancaster’s newspaper published an article about the county’s new P-3 initiative (which I’ve been supporting). Reporter Jeff Hawkes does a nice job using local examples to introduce P-3 improvement. See in particular: How Hawkes follows a family receiving home visiting services…
Survey Finds Majority of K-3 Teachers Feel Unity With Preschool Educators
Marva Hinton of Education Week writes: “Sometimes there seems to be a disconnect between educators who work with children prior to elementary school and those who teach in the early grades, but new survey results find a strong connection between the two groups. The National Association for the Education of Young Children, or NAEYC, recently released results…
Pre-K isn’t an inoculation: What comes next matters
Important new research out of the University of Virginia. Provides additional support for P-3 approaches. The New America Foundation has a nice summary blog post. A few excerpts: “In a new study out of the University of Virginia, The role of elementary school quality in the persistence of preschool effects, the authors find that the quality…
How a School-Based Early-Learning Program Boosted Later College Attendance (Ed Week)
“Preschool may be be good at offering short-term academic gains for kids, but a program that provided services starting at preschool through 3rd grade showed benefits for children that boosted their college attendance rates years later, according to a new study. Researchers examined the life outcomes of nearly 1,000 children who attended the Chicago Child-Parent Centers…
How Alabama is Strengthening the PreK-3rd Grade Continuum (New America Foundation)
How Alabama is trying to create a seamless, high-quality early education continuum that goes from PreK through third grade: https://t.co/R0eUsBbx97 #earlyed — Simon Workman (@SJWorkman) November 27, 2017
“Want to Beat the Stock Market? Bet on Early-Childhood Education”
I’m posting this from Normal, IL. Over the next couple of days I’ll be visiting two of the CPC P-3 Centers that University of Minnesota professor Arthur Reynolds discusses below in an excerpt from a recent Education Week commentary. I look forward to sharing what I learn as part of an ongoing study of Place-Based Collaboration…
Addressing ACEs through P-3 Partnerships
This past summer I did a presentation at the National Academies of Medicine on how P-3 Partnerships can serve as ideal platforms for preventing and addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). This two-day workshop on the Neurocognitive and Psychosocial Impacts of Violence included presentations by researchers from the health, behavioral science, criminal justice, and education fields….
Legislative Briefing on QRIS and P-3
My colleague Diane Schilder and I briefed Massachusetts lawmakers last Thursday on the latest research and thinking regarding QRIS and P-3 partnerships. I was pleased to see how much interest there is in improving quality and supporting community P-3 initiatives. See this short write-up of the event.