First 10 Blog

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We are thrilled to share that First 10 was named a “Bright Spot” in the CELS Center’s new research brief, Transitions to Kindergarten and Beyond. The brief highlights the practices, policies, and conditions that support children and families as they move into kindergarten and through the early elementary grades. It...

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...

Welcome back from the long weekend and best wishes for the 2014-15 academic year. In case you missed it in August, the New America Foundation’s Early Education blog provides a good summary of the new...