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Enhancing Policy and Practice for Young Dual Language Learners: What Does the...
It’s critically important that more and better data on English Language Learners (ELLs) be collected so the early childhood field can move ahead with much-needed analyses that can help inform policy on...
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Are Hispanic Children Losing Out in Preschool?
As revealed in The State of Preschool 2010, enrollment in state-funded pre-K programs nationwide has been negatively impacted by these bad budget years. Enrollment of 4-year-olds nationwide grew by...
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Missed Opportunities: Pre-K Lags for Hispanic Children
Hispanic children and families have been hit particularly hard due to recent funding cuts in state-funded pre-K. While the State Preschool Yearbook does not break down data by ethnicity, our data on...
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2013 State Preschool Yearbook Finds Need for Renewed Investment
Today NIEER released its 2013 State Preschool Yearbookat CentroNía/DC Bilingual Public Charter School in D.C. This newest installment of the Yearbook series covers policies, enrollment, and funding for...
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Readiness and Opportunity Gaps in Early Education, 60 Years After Brown v....
Saturday marked the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal, and marking a major step forward in the Civil Rights...
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Anticipating quality for all children
I remember the anticipation each fall as school was about to begin. So much was going on in my mind. Who was going to be in my class? What kind of year was it going to be? What were we going to learn?...
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Young immigrants and dual language learners: Participation in pre-K and...
In a recent webinar, NIEER discussed what it means to be Hispanic and a DLL (a dual language learner) or Hispanic and come from a home with immigrant parents. We showed that Hispanic children, DLLs,...
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Buried treasure: Discovering gold in the NIEER State of Preschool Yearbook
Similar to birds migrating north every year, a wealth of information on early education flies annually into the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), as specialists from state...
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What the State of Preschool can tell us about Dual Language Learners in state...
The NIEER State of Preschool Yearbook collects data on a variety of topics relating to early childhood, including how states are serving dual language learners. According to Child Trends, nearly 22...
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Finishing the job we started: the next best step in early childhood education
By Valora Washington and Jeffrey Gross. Valora Washington is the Founder and Director of the CAYL Institute (www.cayl.org) and CEO of the Council for Professional Recognition (www.cdacouncil.org)....
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