A new report from the Albert Shanker Institute outlines developmental accomplishments and instructional practices in four areas of preschool curriculum: oral language, literacy, mathematics, and science.
This report reviews the literature on getting dual language learners ready for school. Dual language learners are children from 3-6 years old who are learning a second language while still acquiring their first.
Advances in mobile technologies are showing enormous untapped educational potential for today's generation.
All children benefit from preschool, and increasing the public's investment in effective preschool can have lasting educational, social, and economic benefits.
This report makes several recommendations to address disparities in vocabulary and spoken language based on children's family income and English-language proficiency.
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 created the Early Reading First (ERF) program to provide funding to preschools, particularly those that serve children from low-income families, to support the development of children's language and literacy ski
This white paper, presented by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Apple, describes how investment in technology tools, network access, professional development, and new personalized curricula can help schools address each of the American Recovery and Rein
This article discusses students' academic performance during high school to prepare them for college.
A study about the impact of Head Start shows that at the end of one program year, access to Head Start positively influenced children's school readiness.
A new white paper written by Stanford researcher Linda Darling-Hammond describes what a student assessment system could look like if built from the principles and best practices found in current research and effective programs in the U.S.