- Jenny Portillo-Nacu
- December 5, 2024
In November, the First 10 Partnership in York, PA welcomed Swati Adarkar, deputy assistant secretary of policy and early learning at the U.S. Department of Education (ED); Ralph Smith, managing director at the Campaign for Grade Level Reading (CGLR); and members of EDC’s First 10 team to their community to learn...
- 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...
- David Jacobson
- September 10, 2018
- David Jacobson
- August 22, 2018
EDC is looking for a Portfolio Lead (i.e., Director) for its Early Childhood Portfolio. EDC is a fantastic organization to work for, and we have a very strong portfolio with a terrific group of colleagues....
- David Jacobson
- July 15, 2018
A strong editorial statement on P-3 by the Lancaster County newspaper, the Lancaster LNP: “It’s devastating to think that as early as infancy, a child might be deemed to be “at-risk” — that is, at...
- David Jacobson
- July 10, 2018
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...