Equity Starts Early: Strategies to Consider in Promoting High -
Quality Early Education offers an overview of how young children are doing in early learning and development and provides five action steps for states to prevent achievement gaps in the early learning years.
Not exact matches
We
offer hope to educators by providing critical professional development and work toward the creation of a system of
quality early care and
education for our youngest citizens.
The findings, which
offer a roadmap for broad,
quality implementation of preschool programs, expand upon studies that have long served as barometers for the value of
early childhood
education: the Abecedarian Project, which traces back to the 1970s, and the Perry Preschool Project, which commenced in the 1960s.
The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows:
Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tri
Early Identification and support •
Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tri
Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in
early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tri
early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high
quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tri
early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the
early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tri
early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment:
education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of
early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tri
early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local
offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal
This new book, which includes former Ed School Professor Hiro Yoshikawa, diagnoses the obstacles to
quality early education and
offers a blueprint for making sure every child's
early learning is fully supported.
The Saul Zaentz
Early Education Initiative at HGSE offers a unique early education leadership certificate to drive improvement in quality of early education and
Early Education Initiative at HGSE offers a unique early education leadership certificate to drive improvement in quality of early education
Education Initiative at HGSE
offers a unique
early education leadership certificate to drive improvement in quality of early education and
early education leadership certificate to drive improvement in quality of early education
education leadership certificate to drive improvement in
quality of
early education and
early education education and care.
This book is compiled by
Education Week and offers information and opinion on Obama's key educational priorities, which includes expanding early education, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and affor
Education Week and
offers information and opinion on Obama's key educational priorities, which includes expanding
early education, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and affor
education, improving teacher
quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and affordability.
The Saul Zaentz Professional Learning Academy at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education is offering a new Certificate in Early Education Leadership (CEEL) to provide leaders with the core knowledge, management skills, and tools necessary to build and advance high - quality early education across learning envi
Education is
offering a new Certificate in
Early Education Leadership (CEEL) to provide leaders with the core knowledge, management skills, and tools necessary to build and advance high - quality early education across learning environm
Early Education Leadership (CEEL) to provide leaders with the core knowledge, management skills, and tools necessary to build and advance high - quality early education across learning envi
Education Leadership (CEEL) to provide leaders with the core knowledge, management skills, and tools necessary to build and advance high -
quality early education across learning environm
early education across learning envi
education across learning environments.
NIEER
offers research - based advice and technical assistance to advance
quality early education.
Further inquiry would reveal that this Scandinavian country, together with its Western neighbors, also is a leader in empowering women in politics and perhaps therefore has only a few children who live in poverty, has one of the smallest income inequalities in society, gives every child a right to high -
quality early education,
offers universal healthcare and free higher
education to all, and has - probably for these reasons - one of the happiest people on the planet.
She'd also like to continue the expansion of home - visiting services started under the Obama Administration, create a national program to raise the
quality of
early education instruction and to
offer every new parent 12 weeks of paid leave.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council's (NRC) 2015 report, Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth to Eight,
offers recommendations for building a high
quality early childhood workforce with the knowledge, competencies,
education, and support to promote children's development and learning.
This newest publication analyzes the latest research on the ways that
early experiences, both beneficial and stressful, can have strong impacts on the health of the developing child, and
offers research, policy and practice recommendations for supporting children's lifelong health through high -
quality early childhood
education.
The Tutoring School also
offers some of the best ways to graduate high school
early without compromising a
quality education.
Serving more than 900,000 students, Colorado has endeavored to build a strong and integrated
early childhood
education program and ranks among the highest in the nation for
offering students a «chance for success,» according to EdWeek's
Quality Counts 2017.
Since we began
offering early care and
education programs in 1997, we have served over 14,000 children in our high
quality infant, toddler and preschool programs.
This policy brief from the
Education Commission of the States
offers model state policy components for
early college high schools that provide the necessary supports to ensure program access,
quality and transferability of credit.
Our intention with this legislative brief is to
offer a roadmap for Connecticut's children, based on four policy priorities: family economic security, inclusive, high -
quality early care and
education, youth opportunity and fiscal reform.
We provide support to
early childhood programs who are seeking or are in the process of accreditation so they can achieve the core
quality standards and
offer the best
education to our young children.
It also
offers research, policy and practice recommendations for supporting children's lifelong health through high -
quality early childhood
education.
Investing in
quality early childhood
education offers substantial benefits for both students and communities for years.
In addition to child care and preschool services,
Early Head Start and Head Start
offer prenatal
education, job - training and adult
education, and assistance in accessing housing and insurance.50 However,
Early Head Start presently serves only approximately 3 % of low - income families.51 The Child Care Development Block Grants Act of 2014 and subsequent appropriations also provide child care subsidies for low - income working families and funds to improve child care
quality, in addition to new and needed protections to keep children safe and healthy when they are being cared for outside the home.52
Ready At Five has developed a variety of programs and curricula that are designed to support
early educators, parents, librarians, and other service providers in
offering high -
quality early care and
education to Maryland's youngest learners.
Ready At Five has developed a variety of programs and curricula, such as VIOLETS, that are designed to support
early educators, parents, librarians, and other service providers in
offering high -
quality early care and
education to Maryland's youngest learners.
The ECA Learning Hub
offers on - demand studio -
quality webinars, presented by a range of experts in the
Early Childhood
Education and Care sector.
This publication analyzes the latest research on the ways that
early experiences, both beneficial and stressful, can have strong impacts on the health of the developing child, and
offers research, policy and practice recommendations for supporting children's lifelong health through high -
quality early childhood
education.
Governor's $ 2.3 billion
education plan focuses on student success
Offer opportunities for our youngest learners with high -
quality early learning, $ 156.3 million total.
Aug2013Strengthening Families Through
Early Care and
Education Website» The Strengthening Families website
offers a variety of resources to support
quality in family engage...
We
Offer: •
Quality early education for young children • Programming and support for children with special needs • Caring and well trained staff • Support and resources for parents and families • Leadership and advocacy opportunities for parents • Limited transportation assistance
The findings show that the high -
quality, center - based
early childhood
education offered at Educare has a positive impact on the development of financially disadvantaged infants and toddlers.
The Professional Development Incentive Award
offers incentives to
early childhood practitioners who complete specific tracks of
early childhood professional development / training options designed to impact the
quality of
early care and
education for young children and their families.
The next steps for Michigan include increasing the number of child care centers that participate in the Great Start to
Quality system, expanding
offerings for children from birth to age 3, and improving the links between
early education and k - 12.