This week Congress returns to the Capitol after its August recess. Among the tasks for House and Senate consideration is the completion and approval of the FY 2011 appropriations bill by the end of the current fiscal year–September 30, 2010. So far, the House...
Improving Supports for Parents of Young Children: State-level Initiatives, a new report from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) by Louisa Higgins, Shannon Stagman, and Sheila Smith, provides information for states to use as they work to provide...
Ready, Set, Go! Why Business Should Support Early Childhood Education, the newest publication for the Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW), demonstrates the exceptional effect early childhood education has on the nation’s economic security and the...
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The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin Madison published Wisconsin Poverty Report: New Measure, Broader View, the second annual report aimed to accurately define the extent of poverty and to reflect the resources and need in...
Teachers of English to Students of Other Languages (TESOL), a professional organization to develop and maintain professional expertise in English language teaching and learning for speakers of other languages worldwide, recently release a Position Paper on Language...
Hannah Matthews and Danielle Ewen’s paper Early Education Programs and Children of Immigrants: Learning Each Other’s Language, written for the Young Children in Immigrant Families and the Path to Educational Success roundtable meeting at the Urban...
WHAT: “How to Use Important New Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance Data” Webinar SPONSOR: Coalition on Human Needs WHEN: September 07, 2010 2:00 PM Eastern WHERE: Internet DESCRIPTION: On Sept. 16 and 28, Census will release 2009 data showing the...
A recent National Head Start Association NHSA Dialog (vol 13, issue 3), a research-to-practice journal for the early intervention field, features the article “Teacher-Child Relationships and Children’s Externalizing Behaviors in Head Start.” Authors...
