Early Childhood Education

Early childhood education

Isabel V. Sawhill and Morgan Welch

Monday, May 22, 2023

A girl holds her chalkboard as she arrives to attend lessons at the evening school in Ouakam neighbourhood, Dakar, Senegal January 16, 2019. Picture taken January 16, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs Bill 188, establishing the smell of green chile roasting as the state aroma, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at Monte Vista Elementary. The elementary students came up with the idea for the bill.Grisham Signs Bill 188

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Gabriel R. Sanchez and Carly Bennett

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Co-owner Jacqueline Fordham, 59, center, plays with Corron O., 1, and 11-month-old Brandon H., at Cribs2College Academy child care center in Detroit on April 5, 2023.Preschool Mental Health3 1

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Building a professional early childhood workforce requires a “compensation-first” approach

Daphna Bassok, Laura Bellows, Anna J. Markowitz, and Kate Miller-Bains

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Cover image: Primary school students in a learning session, Delhi. Image credit: British Asian Trust.

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From evidence to scale: Lessons learned from the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sarah Osborne, and Aditi Shankar

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A teacher works with her students to learn math.

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Starting and sustaining community schools: 10 tips for district leaders

Reuben Jacobson

Thursday, November 10, 2022

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Children in Malawi learn at an outdoor school.

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

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Understanding child-friendly urban design: A framework to measure Playful Learning Landscapes outcomes

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

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaks to students in a classroom during a visit to G.W. Carver High School of Engineering and Science in North Philadelphia, PA, USA on March 15, 2023. Gov. Shapiro urges to pass legislation allowing for funding to recruit more teachers. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

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State of the States: Governors and PK-12 education policy 

Rachel M. Perera

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Teachers rally inside the state Capitol on the second day of a teacher walkout to demand higher pay and more funding for education in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., April 3, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford

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Ways to reform teacher compensation, beyond a $60,000 minimum salary

Michael Hansen

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Knox County Schools Superintendent Bob Thomas speaks with Gresham Middle principal Donna Parker as they tour the school during the first day of the new semester on Tuesday, January 5, 2021.Kns Kcs Firstday Bp

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

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

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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

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Early Childhood Education

Early childhood education

How Sierra Leone is getting more girls into STEM

New Mexico’s early childhood education amendment is a model for economic mobility other states should consider

Building a professional early childhood workforce requires a “compensation-first” approach

Reports

From evidence to scale: Lessons learned from the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond

Starting and sustaining community schools: 10 tips for district leaders

Rebalancing: Children first

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

Understanding child-friendly urban design: A framework to measure Playful Learning Landscapes outcomes

Blog Posts

State of the States: Governors and PK-12 education policy

Ways to reform teacher compensation, beyond a $60,000 minimum salary

Survey: What purpose do suspensions serve? Principals don’t seem quite sure

Events

The future of charter schools in the United States

How district leaders start and sustain community schools

Making schools work: How the science of learning can help students thrive

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Policies to Address Poverty in America

Investing in Children

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Daphna Bassok

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

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

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

Playful learning: A new path to education reform

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