(7) Early Care and Education
Early Care and Education
- 5 Simple Ways To Encourage Brain Development In Your Little One, NPR
- An article featuring the Boston Basics in use at a young mothers’ support group
- District of Columbia’s Early Childhood System Approach to Child Health, Development, Education and Well-being Infographic
- Example of an action plan turned into an infographic.
Barriers to Expansion of Pre-K
- Barriers to Expansion of NC Pre-K: Problems and Potential Solutions, National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) Report
- About 33,000 more children are eligible for NC Pre-K, but lack access; this report identifies barriers and potential solutions
Chronic Absenteeism
- “Chronic Absenteeism: A key indicator of student success,” Education Commission of the States
- This policy analysis looks into the links between chronic absenteeism and how it relates to student success; it also includes state action and plans to address chronic absenteeism
- Attendance Counts Community Toolkit | NC Early Childhood Foundation Toolkit
- A toolkit for communities to use in their work to engage districts in chronic absence
- Attendance Counts Issue Brief | NC Early Childhood Foundation
- An issue brief for communities to use in their work to engage districts in chronic absence
- “First Look: Where chronic student absence is a problem and strategies to make progress,” Brookings Institution (Aug 31, 2018)
- An article that covers chronic absenteeism and discusses a recent data report on the topic
- Chronic Absence across the United States, 2015-16 School Year | The Hamilton Project
- An interactive map that allows users to examine chronic absence rates at the school, district, and state levels
Workforce
- “Moving Beyond the Degree Debate,” Bipartisan Policy Center
- An article making the case that “Whether or not an early childhood educator has a degree should not be the sole—or even primary—identifying factor of the profession”
- “Supporting Social-Emotional Learning With Evidence-Based Programs,” The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- This brief shares nine strategies for implementing and sustaining evidence-based programs to support students’ social and emotional health