NEW FINDINGS

NEW FINDINGS

The overview is just a taste of what evidence based research that they offer early childhood professionals:

OVERVIEW:

The Pew Center on the States completed its 10-year campaign to advance high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three- and four-year-olds in 2011. Through its successes, Pre-K Now changed the national conversation about pre-k education, and in its final report, challenged the nation’s policy makers to transform public education by moving away from the current K-12 system to pre-K-12.

The article(s) Transforming Public Education  (Pre-k Now challenges our nation's policymakers to transform public education by moving from a K-12 to an evidence-based Pre-K-12 system) offers great information about the importance of good policy surrounding Pre-K.

Unbeknownst to me, “the 2007 Head Start Act reauthoriza­tion required creation of State Advisory Councils (Councils) to facilitate development of improved and comprehensive policies for a birth-to-five early childhood system, including state-funded pre-k.2 Yet many states are only now beginning to create strong connections among pre-k, Councils, and education reform, (Goffin, Regenstein, 2011)”.  The state of Michigan, my home state, started their approach to this mandate in 2006 and I’m thankful to be a part of it.

One of my favorite things about this website is that you can check updates based on State.

I was unaware of the Pew Children’s Dental Campaign which promotes cost-effective policies to expand access to dental care and ensure that more children receive the basic care they need to grow, learn, and lead healthy lives.