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Andrea Rolla; Gabriela Mottesi; Mel Wylen; Yetunde Akinola – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief provides policymakers and practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the purpose, characteristics, uses, and types of Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEAs). It emphasizes the importance of high-quality KEAs in guiding instructional practices and assessing developmental progress in young learners. It highlights that high-quality KEAs…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Student Evaluation, Child Development
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Nesrin Ozturk, Editor – IntechOpen, 2025
"Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care" delves into the dynamic landscape of early childhood education and critically addresses the intersection of theory and practice, offering a range of theoretical frameworks and practical strategies to support the holistic development of children. It explores a diverse array of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Modern History, Intersectionality
Berdik, Chris – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2020
When "Sesame Street" launched in 1969, it was the first show to attempt to teach young children school-readiness skills with catchy songs and playful Muppets. Not only did it revolutionize the children's media landscape, the program sparked a love of learning among generations of children all over the world. For "Revisiting the…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Public Television, Educational Media, Technology Uses in Education
Dan Wuori – Teachers College Press, 2024
For a century, America's early childhood policy has been premised on a myth. This falsehood--which dictates that child care and education are somehow separate and distinct--not only suboptimizes the most important window into all human development, but costs American taxpayers an untold fortune. It's time to think differently. Written in plain yet…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Student Needs
Claudia M. Gold – Teachers College Press, 2025
This user-friendly guide uses narrative storytelling to describes the principles of early relational health with direct application to day-to-day work with infants and parents. Practitioners on the front lines often feel great pressure to know "what to do" in a wide range of challenging situations. Drawing on both developmental science…
Descriptors: Infants, Parents, Interpersonal Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship
Tammy Bolen – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
The Washington Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Committee (referred to in this report as "the Committee" and "Committee") was established in 2019 through Senate Bill 5082 (SB 5082) to address the growing body of evidence that shows the need for improving a student's social and emotional competencies which are critical to every…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Higher Education, State Legislation, Child Development
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2020
We know that adult-child relationships, other early experiences, and environmental exposures influence child well-being. An increasing number of policies and programs around the world now reflect that understanding by supporting children's early learning and nutrition to improve their readiness to succeed in school. As scientific knowledge…
Descriptors: Learning, Nutrition, Health, Human Body
Ohio Department of Education, 2022
Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs are an important investment in Ohio's youngest learners. Ohio has worked to increase the availability of high-quality early learning programs for preschool children by providing the Early Childhood Education grants. Funded programs deliver high-quality, comprehensive learning environments focused on healthy…
Descriptors: Grants, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Child Development
Kyrie E. Dragoo – Congressional Research Service, 2024
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, P.L. 108-446) is primarily thought of as the nation's special education law, and Part B, which focuses on providing special education and related services to children with disabilities between the ages of 3 and 21 years old, is the largest part of the IDEA both in terms of populations served…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Educational Legislation
Foundation for Child Development, 2020
As the number of publicly funded early childhood education (ECE) programs increases, policymakers will need empirical evidence to justify the taxpayer investment. Such justification will require a stronger understanding of the essential components of an ECE program's design, as well as solid evidence on which components, or constellations of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Research Utilization, Outcomes of Education, Educational Research
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Gardner, Madelyn; Melnick, Hanna; Meloy, Beth; Barajas, Jessica – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
A number of states are considering policy proposals to update credential or degree requirements for early educators. Practitioners, policy experts, and researchers have expressed concern, however, that well-intentioned policies to raise educator qualifications without sufficient supports may have negative consequences for the adequacy; stability;…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Labor Force Development
Ohio Department of Education, 2021
Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs are an important investment in Ohio's youngest learners. Ohio has worked to increase the availability of high-quality early learning programs for preschool children by providing the Early Childhood Education grants. Funded programs deliver high-quality, comprehensive learning environments focused on healthy…
Descriptors: Grants, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Child Development
First Focus on Children, 2025
Budgets are moral documents, reflecting our priorities as a nation by deciding where to allocate resources. Congress is targeting cuts and policy changes that limit access to health care, nutrition programs, and basic financial stability for millions of children, including Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the…
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Aid, Retrenchment, Resource Allocation
Paschall, Katherine; Moore, Kristin Anderson; Pina, Gabriel; Anderson, Samantha – Child Trends, 2020
Measuring kindergarten readiness is essential to identifying children who would benefit from additional supports, either in kindergarten or in the years before kindergarten entry. Several measures of kindergarten readiness are in use now by states and researchers. Most assess individual children at the time they enter kindergarten, using teachers…
Descriptors: Child Health, School Readiness, Well Being, Preschool Children
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Gardner, Madelyn; Melnick, Hanna; Meloy, Beth; Barajas, Jessica – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
High-quality early childhood education (ECE) begins with well-prepared, highly qualified educators. This brief offers practitioners and policymakers an opportunity to learn from promising programs that recruit and prepare racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse cohorts of educators to teach in programs serving children birth…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Labor Force Development
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