Public policies that support high-quality early learning programs lay the foundation for childrens' academic success, improve our business climate and promote broad-based economic opportunity.
Children with access to high-quality early learning and care (from birth to five years of age) do better in school, are more likely to graduate from high school and go on to college, and are less likely to commit crime.
Experience and evidence both highlight the importance of these early years to for a child’s emotional, social and cognitive development. The quality of these early experiences is directly related to future social and academic success.
03.17.2009 | Stakeholders from across the early care and education spectrum have joined together to investigate how to achieve a professional development system for early learning providers that offers children quality care and a strong foundation for learning.
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Ed Watch examines programs in Illinois and Chicago for hints about
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Dawn loved working in early childhood education - but she couldn't afford it.
In 1998, EOI set out with labor leaders, childcare center providers and parents to improve pay and training for teachers, keeping high-quality staff on the job.
The Early Childhood Education Career and Wage Ladder is only early learning program in Washington that creates statistically significant improvements in quality of care - it's also essential to keeping great teachers on the job.
Stakeholders from across the early care and education spectrum have joined together to investigate how to achieve a professional development system for early learning providers that offers children quality care and a strong foundation for learning.
There is already a template for success in the child care market that is ready to be replicated - but where's the political will to do it?
A comprehensive survey of pre-K and full-day kindergarten programs in Washington State.
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