- Jenny Portillo-Nacu
- November 5, 2024
Improved levels of academic achievement and healthy social-emotional development for students are among the many benefits of strong family-school partnerships. At the October First 10 Network Meeting, EDC’s Jenny Portillo-Nacu, Senior Team Facilitator for First 10, and Kristen Reed, Managing Director for Young Mathematicians, led a presentation on building strong...
- David Jacobson
- April 29, 2019
The Early and Elementary Education Policy unit at New America is hosting a panel event on the release of my new study, “All Children Learn and Thrive: Building First 10 Schools and Communities.” The live-streamed...
- David Jacobson
- April 19, 2019
The P-3 Learning Hub is changing its name. We are now called First 10. For the past two years I have been working on a study funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The study investigates community...
- David Jacobson
- February 5, 2019
“Head Start, the country’s biggest preschool program, is getting better.” More than a decade after Congress imposed new standards on Head Start, a third of its partners have been forced to compete for funding that...
- David Jacobson
- October 29, 2018
“On a June morning in this rural eastern North Carolina community, about a dozen families grabbed the edges of a rainbow parachute, making plastic balls bounce in its ripples. Grandparents, parents and children switched between...
- David Jacobson
- October 27, 2018
“Weaving a seamless and tailored web of services for children and families inside and outside of school has been the central tenet of an experiment underway in Salem and five other communities over the past...
- David Jacobson
- October 2, 2018
Early childhood expert and UVA dean, Robert Pianta, in The Hill: “There is precious little evidence that boosts from pre-k are then followed by boosts in kindergarten, first, and second grades – the kind of cumulative impact...