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Early Childhood Development

Policy Articles

1) Preschool for All: High-Quality Early Education for All of Illinois' Children

2) No Child Left Behind Policy Brief: Implications for the Early Learning Field

3) Meeting the Challenge of Rural Pre-K

4) Early Academic Achievement of Hispanics in the United States: Implications for Teacher Preparation

5) Toward an Early Care and Education Agenda for Hispanic Children

6) Buenos Principios: Latino Children in the Earliest Years of Life

7) Screening and Assessment of Young English-Language Learning

8) A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

District Support for PreK

1) PreK-3rd: How Superintendents Lead Change

2) Levels of Leadership: Effects of District and School Leaders on the Quality of School Programs of Family and Community Involvement

Impact Articles

1) Effects of a School-Based, Early Childhood Intervention of Adult Health and Well-Being: A 19 Year Follow-Up of Low-Income Families

2) Cost-Effective Investments in Children

3) The Economics of Inequality

4) Dollars and Sense: A Review of Economic Analyses of Pre-K

5) The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool: Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and Fiscal Sustainability of States and the Nation

6) Evaluating Early Care and Education Programs: What Does Research Tell Us About Their Effects on Child Development?

7) The Business of Early Care and Education in Illinois: Provider's Tools for Improving Quality

8) Early childhood intervention programs:  What do we know? 

9) Child Outcome Standards in Pre-K Programs: What are the standards; what is needed to make them work?

10) School-Based Early Childhood Education and Age-28 Well-Being: Effects by Timing, Dosage, and Subgroups.

Brain Research

1) Science Does Not Speak for Itself: Translating Child Development Research for the Public and Its Policymakers

Parent Involvement

1) Developmental and Economic Effects of Parenting Programs for Expectant Parents and Parents of Preschool-Age Children

Language and Literacy

1) PreK-3rd: Raising the Educational Performance of English Language Learners (ELLs)

2) Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success

3) Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation

4) Culture as framework versus ingredient in early childhood education

5) Children, Language, and Literacy

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