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Young Children of Black Immigrants Familes
There are 1.3 million children in Black immigrant families in the United States, most with parents from Africa and the Caribbean. Children in these families account for 11 percent of all Black children in America and represent a rapidly growing segment of the US population (the African immigrant population alone rose by 63 percent from 2000 to 2008). Yet despite these demographic changes, children in Black immigrant families remain neglected by research studies. Read more...
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Seven CBC Members Receive the First Focus 'Champion for Children' Recognition
First Focus Campaign for Children recently honored seven members of the Congressional Black Causus for their work in the House of Representatives on behalf of children. Read the article here. Read more...
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Leading Experts Propose Game-Changing Ideas to Improve the Lives of Children
Press ReleaseWASHINGTON, D.C. – A selection of seasoned policy experts and emerging stars have come together to provide game-changing proposals aimed at generating big ideas to significantly improve the well-being of children in the United States. Read more... -
Watch Children's Movement of Florida's New TV Commercial
The Children's Movement of Florida just released its first TV commercial. This commercial invites both candidates for governor to participate in this first ever debate devoted exclusively to children's needs. The debate will be held on Oct. 16 at the University of Miami. Watch the video below! Read more...
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PreK-3rd: How Superintendents Lead Change
FCD has recently published a new Policy to Action Brief by Geoff Marietta, PreK-3rd: How Superintendents Lead Change. The brief focuses on the integral work that superintendents play in implementing PreK-3rd. Read more...
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The recession's toll on children
Low-income children are more likely to develop cognitive deficits, undermining their chances for successful lives. New psychological interventions could help protect them.By Amy NovotneySeptember 2010, Vol 41, No. 8Excerpt from article: More than one in five American children now live in poverty, the highest rate in two decades, and one that surpasses that of most other industrialized nations, according to a June report from the nonprofit Foundation for Child Development. Read more... -
The Demographic Impacts of Repealing Birthright Citizenship
Here's a new report from our grantee Michael Fix and FCD Young Scholar Jennifer Van Hook.From the press release: WASHINGTON — Repeal of birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants would expand the unauthorized population by at least 5 million over the next four decades using conservative demographic assumptions, according to a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report. Read more...
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Florida gubernatorial debate to focus on children
By Sergio R. Bustos. The first ever gubernatorial debate to focus solely on the future of Florida's children will be held next month at the University of Miami and organizers expect both Democrat Alex Sink and Republican Rick Scott to participate. Working as partners with UM, the Children's Movement of Florida said Wednesday they will host the Oct. 16 debate, which will be broadcast statewide on television and on the Internet. Read more...
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Seattle Superintendent Endorses PreK-3rd as Powerful Way to Improve Schools
Seattle public schools chief Maria Goodloe-Johnson gave the PreK-3rd movement a boost today, endorsing a move to a PreK-12 system as the most powerful step education policymakers could take. “I believe that the single most powerful change we’re going to make…the one that’s going to have the largest and most long lasting impact on our kids…is to switch us from a K-12 system to a PreK-12 system,” Goodloe-Johnson said in draft speaking points to be delivered at an event in Seattle today. Read more... -
PreK-3rd: Putting Full-Day Kindergarten in the Middle
A new FCD Policy to Action Brief, PreK-3rd: Putting Full-Day Kindergarten in the Middle, calls for Full-Day-Kindergarten (FDK) to be an integral part of a 21st Century P-20 education system. Read more... - Page 8 of 9:
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