Early Childhood Education

Students eat lunch in the cafeteria at a middle school in San Diego, California March 7, 2011. San Diego's Healthy Works Project received the country's largest grant, 16 million dollars, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 to help combat wellness and the obesity epidemic. Picture taken March 7, 2011. To match Special Report USA-FOODLOBBY/ REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E84R1FJZ01

Education

A promising alternative to subsidized lunch receipt as a measure of student poverty

Matthew M. Chingos

Thursday, August 16, 2018

A girl plays at a Lego store in Beijing, China January 13, 2018. Picture taken January 13, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee - RC1E40F51250

Education Plus Development

Why a gender perspective is important for early childhood educators in China

Jin Chi

Monday, August 13, 2018

Teacher Jenna Rosenberg speaks to her first grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. According to officials in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, possible consequences of impending across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, Illinois will lose approximately $33.4 million in education, putting around 460 teacher and aide jobs at risk that would receive funding. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9320AA101

Early Childhood Education

Accountability for early education–a different approach and some positive signs

Susanna Loeb

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Twin girls walk to their school in Kodinji village in the southern Indian city of Kerala

Care Delivery Reform

How a development impact bond is helping improve girls’ education in Rajasthan

Shamika Ravi and Prerna Sharma

Friday, August 3, 2018

Reports

Paola Garcia reads a book with her three-year-old daughter Emily at Action for Boston Community Development's (ABCD) Head Start program in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts March 5, 2013. Garcia attends classes to learn English as a second language while her daughter attends Head Start, which provides early learning for children. According to ABCD, 95 percent of the money for the Head Start program comes from the federal government, funding that faces cuts under sequestration. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION BUSINESS SOCIETY) - GM1E9360GQG01

Early Childhood Education

Does state pre-K improve children’s achievement?

Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst

Thursday, July 12, 2018

A student exits a bus as he arrives at Venice High School in Los Angeles, California December 16, 2015. Classes resume today in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the United States, after they were closed on Tuesday after officials reported receiving an unspecified threat to the district and ordered a search of all schools in the city. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn - GF10000267926

K-12 Education

Do school secessions worsen racial segregation? It’s complicated

Richard V. Reeves and Nathan Joo

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Education

The challenges of curriculum materials as a reform lever

Morgan Polikoff

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Second grade student Brylee Budde counts the money earned from selling eggs at the Walton Rural Life Center Elementary School, in Walton, Kansas, January 18, 2013. Students at the school do farm chores at the beginning of each school day. The Walton Rural Life Center - a kindergarten through fourth grade charter school in rural Kansas - uses agriculture to teach students about math, science, economics. REUTERS/Jeff Tuttle (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION AGRICULTURE SOCIETY) - TM4E92G12JB01

Early Childhood Education

New evidence on the benefits of small group math instruction for young children

Robin Jacob and Brian A. Jacob

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Kindergarten teacher Esenogwas Jacobs tidies her classroom

Early Childhood Education

What is the market price of daycare and preschool?

Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Blog Posts

A Syrian refugee girl who was briefly separated from her parents cries as she walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. Thousands of refugees and migrants, including many families with young children, have been left soaked after spending the night sleeping in the open in torrential rain on the Greek-Macedonian border. About 7,000 people waited in the mud of an open field near the northern Greek village of Idomeni to cross the border, with more arriving in trains, buses and taxis, as Macedonian police has imposed rationing in the flow of refugees. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis - S1BEUGOKOIAA

Future Development

The enormous cost of toxic stress: Repairing damage to refugee and separated children

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, July 9, 2018

Refugee schoolchildren attend a lesson in a classroom on the first day of the new school

Education Plus Development

Are impact bonds and outcome funds a solution to the global learning crisis?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Izzy Boggild-Jones

Monday, June 18, 2018

Four-year old Catherine Mawi (top) plays with three-year old Lillian Barnette (bottom) at the Frederick, Maryland Head Start facility March 13, 2012. When officials in Frederick County, Maryland voted last year to stop paying for the local Head Start preschool program, they pointed to a nearly $12 million projected budget shortfall as proof that the mostly rural county could no longer afford it. Picture taken March 13, 2012. To match story USA-EDUCATION/HEADSTART REUTERS/Gary Cameron (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS) - GM1E83F0CI701

Brown Center Chalkboard

It’s time to move beyond the word gap

Douglas E. Sperry, Linda L. Sperry, and Peggy J. Miller

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

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Events

2018

Jul

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Development Seminar | No free lunch: Using technology to improve the efficacy of school feeding programmes

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

Citizens of the future: Innovations to leapfrog global education

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM EDT

Impact bonds in developing countries

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

New York, New York

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Policies to Address Poverty in America

By Benjamin H. Harris and Melissa S. Kearney

2014

Investing in Children

Edited by Ariel Kalil, Ron Haskins, and Jenny Chesters

2012

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Multimedia

Children attend classes at a school in San Cristobal, Venezuela February 20, 2018. Picture taken February 20, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez - RC1F51D68850

Education in Developing Nations

Remaking education to help young people thrive

Rebecca Winthrop and Fred Dews

Friday, May 25, 2018

Cities & Regions

Transforming public spaces with learning landscapes

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jennifer S. Vey, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

A high school student tests a "Quipus" laptop during a presentation ceremony in El Alto, July 31, 2014. Some 15,000 public school students received the laptops, assembled by Bolivian state-run company Quipus, during the ceremony. According to local media, El Alto schools will receive a total of some 140,000 laptops this year as part of a government initiative to provide final-year high school students with access to a new laptop, aiming to incorporate the use of new technology in educational institutions. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS SOCIETY) - RTR40UBC

Education

Teaching for the 21st century: Broader skills for global citizens

Esther Care, Sean Slade, Ramya Vivekanandan, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

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Early Childhood Education

A promising alternative to subsidized lunch receipt as a measure of student poverty

Why a gender perspective is important for early childhood educators in China

Accountability for early education–a different approach and some positive signs

How a development impact bond is helping improve girls’ education in Rajasthan

Reports

Does state pre-K improve children’s achievement?

Do school secessions worsen racial segregation? It’s complicated

The challenges of curriculum materials as a reform lever

New evidence on the benefits of small group math instruction for young children

What is the market price of daycare and preschool?

Blog Posts

The enormous cost of toxic stress: Repairing damage to refugee and separated children

Are impact bonds and outcome funds a solution to the global learning crisis?

It’s time to move beyond the word gap

Events

Development Seminar | No free lunch: Using technology to improve the efficacy of school feeding programmes

Citizens of the future: Innovations to leapfrog global education

Impact bonds in developing countries

Related Books

Policies to Address Poverty in America

Investing in Children

Multimedia

Remaking education to help young people thrive

Transforming public spaces with learning landscapes

Teaching for the 21st century: Broader skills for global citizens

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