Sentences with phrase «like quality early education»

Our New Mexico members promote evidence - backed policies and investments in proven, effective programs like quality early education and voluntary home visiting, so that the next generation will be prepared to succeed in school and in life.

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(And apparently, parents are generally quite bad at recognising what «quality» early childhood education looks like.)

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.

Research shows quality preschool programs, like We Can Early Learning Curriculum, significantly reduce referrals to special education and virtually eliminate the learning gap for children from low - income families.

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.

Using nine specific quality benchmarks, including things like whether teachers had specialized training in early childhood education, if the maximum class size was 20 students or fewer and what the student to staff ratio was, Erin Baumgartner found that none of the 50 campuses included in the study met all nine of the quality benchmarks and that students of limited English proficiency were less likely to be enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs with six or more quality indicators.

Like early learning and K - 12 education settings, the benefits youth receive from out - of - school time (OST) programs hinge on the quality of the program.

We know that high - quality early - childhood education, additional pathways like career - and - technical education, community schools that provide wraparound services, and changing instruction to include project - based learning are ways to engage students, address poverty, and make every public school a place where parents want to send children, educators want to work and kids are engaged.

Educare unites early education professionals, private - sector leaders, policymakers, families and other like - minded champions to improve access to high - quality early childhood education across the country.

The Academy advocates to protect and expand federal anti-poverty and safety net programs, including those that provide health care (and access to health care through Medicaid and CHIP), early education (such as Head Start and Early Head Start), quality child care, affordable housing and home visiting, as well as critical nutrition assistance programs like WIC, SNAP, school meals, and summer feeding progearly education (such as Head Start and Early Head Start), quality child care, affordable housing and home visiting, as well as critical nutrition assistance programs like WIC, SNAP, school meals, and summer feeding progEarly Head Start), quality child care, affordable housing and home visiting, as well as critical nutrition assistance programs like WIC, SNAP, school meals, and summer feeding programs.

As early childhood education professionals, we know what high quality instruction looks like - and that academic preparation is only part of it.

High - quality early education can help children develop critical skills like social - emotional regulation and communication, which promote lifelong learning.