- 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
- November 16, 2017
“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...
- David Jacobson
- November 7, 2017
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...
- David Jacobson
- November 2, 2017
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...
- David Jacobson
- October 27, 2017
“The US is one of the only developed countries in the world without a child allowance — a government program giving every family a set amount of money per child, no strings attached. A new proposal by...
- David Jacobson
- October 25, 2017
“Matt’s behavior started to turn around in fifth grade, after his parents began using Collaborative Problem Solving (C.P.S.), a technique designed to build self-regulation skills. Many children are lagging in skills like impulse control, managing frustration...
- David Jacobson
- August 9, 2017
Drawing on his new report, Connecting the Steps: State Strategies to Ease the Transition from Pre-K to Kindergarten, New America’s Aaron Loewenberg writes in Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity: “Transition activities such as teacher home visits;...