Early Childhood Education

Fostering community and measuring impact: What’s working in playful learning cities

Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022

9:00 AM EDT - 11:00 AM EDT

Brookings Institution

Washington, DC

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Student Lilly Fish works on her signing skills during sign language class at the Pride School in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. on December 7, 2016. The Pride School is a K-12 school for LGBT+ students and others that benefit from alternative educational resources. Picture taken on December 7, 2016. REUTERS/Tami Chappell

Brown Center Chalkboard

Why does inclusion often neglect the needs of deaf students?

Roberta J. Cordano

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Education Plus Development

The next decade of education transformation: 5 reports to spur debate and discussion

Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Samantha Wiik's fourth grade class does an activity comparing the positive outcomes of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to their word of the week, "celebration" at Kratzer Elementary School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 13, 2021. Students drew on their desks to visually portray this idea with dry erasable markers. Picture taken April 13, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah Beier

Brown Center Chalkboard

“Apples to outcomes?” Revisiting the achievement v. attainment differences in school voucher studies

Joshua Cowen

Thursday, September 1, 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

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 26: An empty hallway is pictured at Heather Hills Elementary School as officials conduct a materials distribution for parents to pick up for distance learning in Bowie, Md., on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Brown Center Chalkboard

What if Americans sour on public education?

Jon Valant

Monday, August 29, 2022

Kindergarten teacher Princess Bryant prepares her classroom, from where she will begin the new school year teaching classes virtually because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at the Tynan Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Brown Center Chalkboard

Are we at a crisis point with the public teacher workforce? Education scholars share their perspectives

Emma García, Matthew A. Kraft, and Heather L. Schwartz

Friday, August 26, 2022

James, 10, calls for a tutor at South Los Angeles Learning Center in Los Angeles, California March 16, 2011. The center is run by School on Wheels, which uses volunteers to tutor homeless children in shelters, parks, motels, and two centers. There has been a surge in the number of homeless children in Los Angeles in the last five years, due to persistent unemployment and mounting foreclosures. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION)

Brown Center Chalkboard

Low parent interest in COVID-recovery interventions should worry educators and policymakers alike

Dan Silver, Anna Saavedra, and Morgan Polikoff

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

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Events

2022

May

Past Event

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

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

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

Online only

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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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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

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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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