What's New
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Announcing 2013 Young Scholars Competition
FCD's Young Scholars Program (YSP) supports a new generation of scholars conducting research on the development of young children (birth-10) in immigrant families, particularly those who are low-income. Read more...
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Children Bear Greatest Burden of U.S. Deportation Policies
Study: Immigration enforcement even affects U.S. citizen children whose parents have not been deported Read more...
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American Children Born to Immigrant Parents Trailing Behind, New Study Finds
SAN FRANCISCO--American children with immigrant parents are more likely to live in poverty—with no health insurance coverage--and less likely to graduate from high school, a new study finds. Read more...
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USA: Children of immigrants are healthier than the rest
NEW YORK (AP) - American children of immigrant parents are healthier than children of those born in the United States despite having less access to health insurance and a lower economic status.The conclusion is one of many presented in a report released Wednesday by the Foundation for Child Development (Foundation for Child Development, in English), a national organization dedicated to promoting children's welfare. Read more...
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Immigrant Children Lag Behind, Posing Risk
The education, health and socioeconomic lot of the children of immigrants, the fastest-growing population group in the U.S., has raised concerns about how those children will perform when they enter the workforce. Read more...
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Children in Immigrant Families: Essential to America's Future
FCD has released Children in Immigrant Families: Essential to America’s Future, a FCD Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI) Policy Brief. The report is the first to compare the well-being of children in immigrant families (one in four children) to children with U.S.-born parents and finds significant gaps in income, education, and health. Key findings include: Read more...
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New PreK-3rd Data Available!
The PreK-3rd Data Resource Center at the University of Michigan Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to eight longitudinal Read more...
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Long-Term Effects of Oklahoma's Universal PreK Program
Oklahoma is one of three states in the nation to offer free voluntary PreKindergarten, since 1998, to all children in participating school districts. Read more...
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How Will Early Ed Fit Into New District-Level Race to the Top?
If school districts want to win between $15 million and $25 million in the next Race to the Top competition, they will have to focus on personalized learning, according to draft guidelines released by the U.S. Department of Education today. They will also need to come up with a way to link student performance to the evaluation of teachers and school leaders, such as principals. Read more...
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FCD's Top Ten!
Since the launch of our redesigned web site in August 2009, FCD and its grantees have posted over 300 reports, research articles, briefs, case studies, and other materials on the FCD web site. Of those resources, the "top ten" most downloaded are listed below. Take a look and revisit our high demand resources! Read more...
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