Early Childhood Education

Brown Center Chalkboard

Weighing the benefits and costs of universal versus targeted pre-K programs

Helen F. Ladd

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Early Childhood Education

Overview: Measuring early learning quality and outcomes

Friday, June 16, 2017

Early Childhood Education

Measuring early learning quality and outcomes in Tanzania

Kate Anderson and Rebecca Sayre

Friday, June 16, 2017

Education Plus Development

The premature death of the whole-child approach in preschool

Andres S. Bustamante, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Reports

Early Childhood Education

Rigorous preschool research illuminates policy (and why the Heckman Equation may not compute)

Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Two-year-and-three-month-old Carlson Chuen undertakes a test of identifying objects during a mock interview, as part of a specialized class preparing toddlers for kindergarten.

Early Childhood Education

Puzzling it out: The current state of scientific knowledge on pre-kindergarten effects

Deborah A. Phillips, Mark W. Lipsey, Kenneth A. Dodge, Ron Haskins, Daphna Bassok, Margaret R. Burchinal, Greg J. Duncan, Mark Dynarski, Katherine A. Magnuson, and Christina Weiland

Monday, April 17, 2017

Children play on a carousel at a kindergarten in Baokang, Hubei province February 29, 2008. China, worried about an aging population, is studying scrapping its controversial one-child policy but will not do away with family-planning policies altogether, a senior official said. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT - RTR1XPS5

Early Childhood Education

Is your child ready for kindergarten?

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Stephanie Howard Larson

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Four-year olds Ryan Htut (L) and Justin Hernandez play in a plastic cube at the Frederick, Maryland Head Start facility March 13, 2012.

Children & Families

Why the federal government should subsidize childcare and how to pay for it

Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Colourful handprints decorate a window of a childcare facility at the Patrick-Henry Village refugee center, a former U.S. military facility in Heidelberg, Germany September 29, 2015. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet agreed a package of measures on Tuesday to help German towns cope with the influx of asylum seekers, as a poll showed her conservatives dipping to a one-year low on concerns about her handling of the crisis. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski - RTS28TB

Early Childhood Education

Ensuring effective outcome-based financing in early childhood development

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sophie Gardiner, and Katie Smith

December 2016

Blog Posts

Education Plus Development

Addressing delivery challenges in education: Lessons from Millions Learning case studies

Sruti Bandyopadhyay and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Monday, June 5, 2017

Refugee schoolchildren receive their new books on the first day of the new school year at one of the UNRWA schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat in Amman

Education Plus Development

Concerned about the Paris Agreement? There’s still hope through girls’ education

Rebecca Winthrop and Christina Kwauk

Friday, June 2, 2017

Teacher Audrey Benes speaks to her kindergarten class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois

Brookings Now

Does pre-K work? Brookings experts weigh in on America’s early childhood education debate

Molli Ferrarello

Friday, May 26, 2017

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Experts

Kate Anderson

Project Director and Associate Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

@KAndersonCUE

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

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

@KathyandRo1

Rebecca Winthrop

Director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

@rebeccawinthrop

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Multimedia

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

Students arrive 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) - RTR3DVPU

Education

Charter schools and federal power: What’s next for education policy?

Elizabeth Mann, Jon Valant, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Pre-schooler Cecil Smith (L), 4, holds the hand of a teacher's assistant as he prepares to go to class after he and classmates were given Mardi Gras beads, on the first day of school since Hurricane Katrina hit over a month ago, at an elementary school in Metairie, Louisiana October 3, 2005. Public schools opened throughout Jefferson Parish, including Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. REUTERS/Lee Celano - RTR18O4R

Brookings Now

Does universal pre-school do more harm than good?

Brennan Hoban

Friday, October 28, 2016

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Reports

The future of school-based social and emotional learning programs

What we know about the effects of pre-K in 6 consensus statements

Opportunities and challenges for social impact bonds in Mexico

Project Director and Associate Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

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

Director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development