Mar
10
2011
Action for Children NC, the Covenant with North Carolina's Children, the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., NC MomsRising, the NC Pediatric Society, the Child Care Coalition and others will join forces for a day of educating the General...
Mar
01
2011
Increase investments in early education, says a group of more than 80 leading business people, educators and elected officials who participated in a year-long study group organized by the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Study group members were...
Mar
01
2011
Following last week’s release of President Obama's fiscal year 2012 budget, First Focus issued a new series of fact sheets that detail the impact of the spending proposal on children and families.
Child Health
Child Nutrition
Early Childhood
K-12 Education
Income Support
Child Housing
Child Welfare
Feb
24
2011
This weekend on News & Views, Dr. Olson Huff, board chair of The North Carolina Partnership for Children, talks about the importance of early childhood investments.
To hear a preview of Dr. Huff’s radio interview with Chris Fitzsimon, click below:
UPDATE:...
Jan
31
2011
America’s middle-class children have been steadily falling further behind their more privileged peers for the past quarter century – but the worst of the fallout has been held in check by essential policies and programs that could be unraveled,...
Jan
18
2011
Abstact exerpted from Phi Delta Kappan:
New discoveries in neuroscience suggest that school readiness interventions might come too late if they start after the child is three years old. Many of the skills needed to succeed in school are shaped...
Dec
21
2010
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has posted a fantastic interview with Art Rolnick, an economist and former research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He talk about how he came to write a report with Rob Grunewald about economics...
Dec
14
2010
While the year has been difficult and the road ahead will be challenging, Zero to Three reminds us that there were some policy improvements for infants and toddlers in 2010.
Download Improvements in Infant-Toddler Policy: Top 10 Policy Achievements of 2010.
Dec
13
2010
Sharing this cartoon that we received . . .
2010,the red broom co.
Dec
13
2010
"There’s an education reform strategy that has 50 years of solid research behind it, with proven results that demonstrate how to improve student achievement. It’s a solution backed by both political parties to help narrow the achievement gap, increase...