First 10 Blog

For many families, kindergarten is when the gaps among the systems supporting a young child become impossible to ignore. By then, children may already have relationships with early childhood educators, health providers, libraries, and other community organizations. When those institutions are not connected, families may have to start over, educators...

Congratulations to Dr. Valora Washington and the CAYL Institute on its 10th anniversary. Its community of practice now includes over 600 fellows. I attended the anniversary celebration a couple of weeks ago, where the strength...

Is New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio’s method for expanding Pre-K a model for other cities? Six experts’ views on the implications of NYC’s PreK expansion for other cities. The View from 3 Feet...

The New America Foundation’s EdCentral provides a helpful summary: New SIG Regulations Ramp up Focus on Early Education

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Commentary from the Sunday New York Times: One reason the United States has not made more progress against poverty is that our interventions come too late. If there’s one overarching lesson from the past few...

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article about the Parent-Child Home program, which operates in many communities in Massachusetts. For all the energy poured into [New York City’s] preschool expansion, some researchers and early-childhood...

For those of you who were perhaps enjoying the last weeks of summer and may have missed it in August, here are links to a three-part series I wrote on the experiences of two community-based...