Completed Systems/Governance Projects

EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION WORKFORCE INITIATIVE

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FINANCING UNIVERSAL EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN

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AN ANALYSIS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD GOVERNANCE EFFORTS

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ASSESSING STATE STANDARDS AND ASSESSMENTS

The National Educational Goals Panel defined five inter-related dimensions of readiness for young children: health and physical development; emotional well-being and social competence; approaches to learning; communicative skills; and cognition and general knowledge. Building upon this work, researchers at the Center are collaborating with the Regional Educational Laboratory at SERVE and the National Association for the Education of Young Children to learn how each state has developed and defined early learning standards for its children. Detailed interviews with state-level early care and education experts will shed light on the degree to which the framework developed by the Goals Panel has been implemented and identify any other theoretical and/or philosophical paradigms that have influenced state standards. Moreover, the final report derived from this survey will be the most comprehensive source of information available on early learning standards in the country.

Read the Related Report: Standards For Preschool Children's Learning and Development: Who Has Standards, How Were They Developed, And How Are They Used? (.pdf)

Funding Source: A.L. Mailman Family Foundation.

ACHIEVING QUALITY EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION:
ACTING ON WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED FROM QUALITY 2000

The goal of this follow-up project is to popularize and support the implementation of the recommendations generated from Not By Chance, the final and widely read report of Quality 2000, an initiative designed to create a long-range, integrated vision for early care and education. The eight major recommendations called for improvement of program quality, development of a child-based, results-driven system, engagement of parents and families as partners in children's programs, development of licenses for early childhood staff, expansion of the content of education and training for early childhood staff, licensing of all early childhood programs, direct investment in the infrastructure of early care and education, and the creation of local and state boards responsible for the infrastructure and governance of early care and education. The project is focused on communication and outreach to the public, policy makers and the early care and education field. Additional work will include a toolkit for engaging states and communities in the work of creating comprehensive visions for early care and education. This project advances new ideas about reforming America's early childhood education
system.

Funding Source: Carnegie Corporation of New York.