Early Education
Providing children with the experiences they need to succeed in school before starting kindergarten is critical. But what should those experiences be? Who should pay for them? As parents, school leaders and policymakers struggle to answer these and other questions, we cover what’s working, and what’s not, in early education.
$5.5 billion will expand care for thousands of kids in California, but it may not be enough
As presidential candidates propose investment in child care and paid leave on a national scale, California’s success or failure could act as a bellwether.
OPINION: U.S. presidential candidates offer early-education plans, but can they deliver?
Weighing in on expanded access to affordable child care for families with young children
Kindergarten behavior predicts adult earning power
New research draws a direct link between kids’ attentiveness, aggression and friendliness in kindergarten and their adult income
Preschool for children with disabilities works, but federal funding for it is plummeting
Special education programs for preschoolers with disabilities are required by law. But as the number of students needing services has doubled, funding per child has decreased 40% in two decades
To smooth transitions from home to pre-K to kindergarten, states must invest in every aspect of early ed
West Virginia educators say working within a high-quality preschool program that emphasizes academic standards, teacher collaboration and family relationships makes it easy to burnish their strong reputation for thoughtfully executed transitions
How to program greater diversity among Mississippi’s computer science grads
Female and black students have been locked out of computer science fields, but a program seeks to change that by starting early
How cities are convincing voters to pay higher taxes for public preschool
Seattle, Cincinnati and San Antonio are just three of a growing number of cities to develop high-quality public preschool programs paid for by new local taxes.
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Sending your boy to preschool is great for your grandson, new research shows
Children of parents who attended a high-quality preschool program in the 1960s were better educated, healthier, better employed and more likely to stay stably married, especially if they were boys born to preschool-educated fathers.
Just 13 percent of child care assistance goes to student parents
States control who gets federally supported child care assistance and few prioritize parents pursuing education or training
Can start-up companies profit off one of the lowest paid professions: home-based child care?
For-profit companies want to fix the country’s child care system by helping low-wage child care workers better run their small businesses