Early Childhood Education

Empowering parents to support their children’s development: A conversation about building a ‘parent nation’

Tuesday, May 03, 2022

10:00 AM EDT - 11:00 AM EDT

Ukrainian children sitting by suitcase after evacuating Eastern Ukraine.

Education Plus Development

Top priorities for the refugee education response across Europe

Maysa Jalbout

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Children planting a plant outdoors with help from woman teacher.

Education Plus Development

Community schools implementation and administration: Policy opportunities

Rebecca Winthrop

Monday, March 28, 2022

Planet Earth being held up by multiple hands

Education Plus Development

The international community needs new solutions to support the education of a generation of displaced children and youth

Maysa Jalbout

Friday, March 4, 2022

Reports

Children & Families

Rebalancing: Children first

Natasha Cabrera, David Deming, Veronique de Rugy, Lisa A. Gennetian, Ron Haskins, Dayna Bowen Matthew, Richard V. Reeves, Isabel V. Sawhill, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Kosali Simon, Katharine B. Stevens, Michael R. Strain, Ryan Streeter, James Sullivan, W. Bradford Wilcox, and Lauren Bauer

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Children in Malawi learn at an outdoor school.

Report

Scaling education innovations for impact in low- and middle-income countries during COVID

Brad Olsen

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Report

Understanding child-friendly urban design

Helen Shwe Hadani, Jennifer S. Vey, Shwetha Parvathy, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Report

Increasing federal investment in children’s early care and education to raise quality, access, and affordability

Elizabeth Davis and Aaron Sojourner

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Report

Gender-based violence in primary schools: Nigeria

Adefunke Ekine

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Blog Posts

A stack of books on a table with pre-K written on the spine of one book and glasses sitting on top of the stack. Also, an apple and a glass of pencils sit on the table.

Education Plus Development

Making pre-K work: Lessons from the Tennessee study

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Dale C. Farran, Margaret Burchinal, and Kimberly Nesbitt

Monday, February 28, 2022

Brown Center Chalkboard

What does the Tennessee pre-K study really tell us about public preschool programs?

Christina Weiland, Daphna Bassok, Deborah A. Phillips, Elizabeth U. Cascio, Chloe Gibbs, and Deborah Stipek

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Leo, left, and Jeffery, right, listen as their teacher, Justin Armbruster, goes through a math lesson at Rochester Elementary School in Rochester, Ill., Wednesday, September 15, 2021. Illinois students and school staff in K-12 and early childhood care centers are required to wear masks indoors because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Illinois students and school staff in K-12 and early childhood care centers are required to wear masks indoors because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register]Rochester School District

Brown Center Chalkboard

Is universal preschool worth it?

Martha Bailey, Shuqiao Sun, and Brenden Timpe

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

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Events

2021

Aug

Past Event

The future of early childhood education after COVID-19

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Protecting and elevating early years programming during and after COVID-19: Tools to support adequate, equitable, and efficient investments

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Re-emerging from COVID-19: Why children and cities need play now more than ever

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Online only

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Related Books

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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Experts

Helen Shwe Hadani

Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Fellow - Brookings Metro, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking

@HelenSHadani

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

EGWBrookings

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

@dwschanz

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Multimedia

Jenny Doss, an early childhood special education teacher at Ben Franklin Elementary School, works with her K-5 class at the school in Menomonee Falls on June 8. Doss is speaking out against Republican lawmakers' spending proposal, which only calls for a slight boost in special education funding.MJS-special education funding00p1

Podcast Episode

Challenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19

Jon Valant, Miriam Calderon, Jenna Conway, and Christina Weiland

Friday, September 3, 2021

Kindergarten teacher Princess Bryant and paraprofessional Emily Lichtenstein (L) meet their incoming students and parents remotely before the first day of classes in the new school year at the Tynan Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., September 18, 2020. Bryant will begin the school year teaching classes virtually from her classroom because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Podcast Episode

Playful learning: A new path to education reform

Helen Shwe Hadani, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Fred Dews

Friday, December 4, 2020

Adults and children play with Lego bricks during the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Lego brick, at Lego House in Billund, Denmark January 28, 2018. Scanpix Denmark/Michael Drost-Hansen via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. DENMARK OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN DENMARK. - RC142CA74E00

Podcast Episode

The power of parents in accelerating global education progress

Rebecca Winthrop and Fred Dews

Friday, June 7, 2019

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