- Leana Nordstrom
- April 15, 2024
Each year, starting in 2021, Head Start teachers, community-based Pre-K teachers, district Pre-K and K teachers, and assorted administrators in York, PA, have come together in the summer for a 1-day joint professional learning experience. York’s First 10 Summer Institutes have been a great way for this community of educators...
- David Jacobson
- June 10, 2016
Preschool teachers must offer high-quality instruction to change academic outcomes for their students, according to a new analysis of eight large preschool studies conducted by the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of...
- David Jacobson
- June 4, 2016
Living in neighborhoods with a high turnover of people damages parent-child relationships, particularly among ethnic minorities, according to our pioneering study of over 3,000 US families. The findings, from research in Chicago, are worrying because...
- David Jacobson
- December 1, 2015
We are aware that building a coherent system is more time consuming and less flashy than just adding more slots or more dollars to an existing system. But we have an opportunity to … build...
- David Jacobson
- October 27, 2015
Arne Duncan speaking to the Early Learning Challenge and Preschool Development Grant grantees: “We need to get the movement for high-quality early childhood education to a tipping point.”
...- David Jacobson
- October 26, 2015
In Washington, DC for a meeting with Preschool Development Grant and Early Learning Challenge grantees. Jim Lesko of AEM discusses the rationale for Birth–3rd approaches: Eliminates artificial distinction between early childhood and early elementary education. Supports...
- David Jacobson
- October 22, 2015
A great article about how New Bedford, MA has come together to support a focused Birth–3rd strategy. Thanks to Titus DosRemedios and Strategies for Children for laying it out so clearly and compellingly (and for...