Successful Implementation of the First 10 Model: Insights from Rhode Island
Starting in 2021, the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) partnered with First 10 to improve the quality and coordination of the early childhood education and care in three communities: East Providence, Johnston, and Woonsocket. This report evaluates this partnership’s work spanning from spring 2021 through December 2023. Key findings from the evaluation include: All…
Practical Ideas for Deepening Family Partnerships
We at First 10 were excited to welcome Dr. Karen Mapp to our May network meeting. Dr. Mapp, a Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Faculty Director of the Education Policy and Management Master’s Program, developed the widely-used Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships for the U.S. Department…
School-Connected Play & Learns
The First 10 Network launched in 2022 as a way to connect First 10 communities to one another so that they can learn about and build on each other’s innovations and adapt them to meet local needs. At our February network meeting, a panel of on-the-ground experts from the First 10 community—facilitators who lead play…
Nice Video on Boston Pre-kindergarten Program
Created as part of the book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education.
What Pre-K Means for Your Pre-teenager (New Tulsa Findings)
New Analysis Finds Long-Lasting Benefits to Early-Childhood Education (Ed Week)
“High-quality early-childhood programs boost graduation rates, reduce grade retention and cut down on special education placements, according to a new analysis of several other early-education research studies that adds fresh fuel to long-running policy debates about the effectiveness of pre-K. ‘These results suggest that the benefits of early-childhood education programs do in fact persist beyond the preschool year,’…
New Consensus Statement on Effects of Pre-Kindergarten
A task force of social scientists from Brookings and Duke University has produced a consensus statement on what we know about the effects of pre-kindergarten. Brookings introduces the statement and a report on the current state of scientific knowledge on pre-kindergarten effects here. Education Week’s coverage is here. The Task Force agreed on six consensus statements. The…
Children in New York City are healthier since the start of Pre-K for All
From Chalkbeat: “The launch of Pre-K for All led to improved health outcomes for low-income children. That’s according to researchers at New York University who analyzed Medicaid data for New York City children who were eligible to enroll in free pre-K versus those who just missed the cutoff because of their age. In a report released…
A Lesson For Preschools: When It’s Done Right, The Benefits Last (NPR)
From a recent NPR article: “Is preschool worth it? Policymakers, parents, researchers and us, at NPR Ed, have spent a lot of time thinking about this question. We know that most pre-kindergarten programs do a good job of improving ‘ specific skills like phonics and counting, as well as broader social and emotional behaviors, by…
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Quality and Family Engagement
The political dynamic seems to have changed since this Washington Post article was published almost a year ago, but see Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s discussion of preschool quality and wraparound services for parents as he describes his administration’s work on early education in Chicago. Too many Republicans today ridicule the value of early education. That would come…