Early Ed Watch

The Early Education Initiative seeks to promote a high-quality and continuous system of early care and education for all children, birth to age 8. While much of our focus is on pre-K up through 3rd grade, we also examine the need for high-quality infant and toddler care and better policies to support new parents.

Go to our Initiative's front page for more in-depth reporting and analysis, including ongoing coverage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the new Race to the Top competition; reports that probe observation tools for teacher assessment and professional development, explore a new approach to English language learner education, and argue for a major revamping of teacher preparation policies for the early grades; podcast interviews with innovators, packages of blog posts on Race to the Top, Head Start and dual-language learners, magazine articles, op-eds, and more.

Our work is made possible through generous grants from the Foundation for Child Development and the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation.

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Our forum on LinkedIn is a space for school district leaders, early childhood educators, policymakers and other interested parties to discuss their struggles, questions and achievements in creating a “before birth and up through third grade” system. It grew out of an event held at the New America Foundation on March 2, 2011.

Click here to visit the forum.

• Body Mind and Child Radio
• Core Knowledge Blog
• Daniel Willingham
• The Learning Curve
• NACCRRA Early Childhood Focus
• Birth to Thrive Online
• The Early Years (science ed)
• The Tulsa Initiative Blog
• Eduflak
• The Class Struggle
• The Educated Guess
• HechingerEd
• Inside School Research
• Teacher Beat
• Politics K-12
• EduWonk
• Bridging Differences
• National Journal Education Experts
• Education Next
• Preschool Matters
• The Early Years (from Ed Week)
• Eye on Early Education
• Emergent Learner
• Sara Mead's Policy Notebook
• ECE Policy Matters

Resources

Policy and Research

• U.S. Department of Education
• Foundation for Child Development
• Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
• HighScope Educational Research Foundation
• Institute for Education Sciences
• National Association for the Education of YoungChildren
• National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force
• National Head Start Association
• National Institute for Early Education Research
• Office of Head Start
• Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation at ACF in HHS
• Research Connections
• Society for Research in Child Development
• Center for the Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning
• Chicago Longitudinal Study
• NIEER pre-K News Archive
• Office of Head Start
• Early Care and Education Legislation Database

Data

• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Institute for Early Education Research