All-America City Grade-Level Reading Award
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President Obama’s Budget and Early Learning
President Obama released his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal last week that includes increased funding for early education and child health. While much of the new money requested would go to higher education, early learning receives some attention. The President proposes an $85 million increase in funding for Head Start and a $300 million increase [...]
Ed Dept. Official Embraces Birth-to-8 Continuum
The U.S. Department of Education embraces the goal of ensuring more children learn to read by the end of third grade as part of its broader effort to create a “true cradle-to-career continuum,” said Jacqueline Jones, Senior Advisor for Early Learning to the Secretary of Education. “We’re doing everything we can to build a strong [...]
PreK-Third Grade Number One Education Trend in 2012
The Campaign has long proclaimed the importance of aligning prekindergarten instruction and curriculum with what’s taught in the primary grades. Now a respected education research organization has declared PreK-third alignment the No. 1 policy area to focus on in 2012. A new report from the Education Commission of the States predicts which issues have the [...]
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