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Health Care for Immigrant Families: Current Policies and Issues
WASHINGTON – Low-income immigrant children are less likely than their U.S.-born citizen counterparts to see a doctor even when they are insured. Similarly, immigrant adults are less likely to use emergency rooms than low-income natives, a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report that examines health care coverage and usage among immigrants and the U.S. born finds. Read more...
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Meet the PreK-3rd Grade National Work Group!
The PreK-3rd Grade National Work Group promotes high-quality learning experiences for children from Prekindergarten through Third Grade. The group is committed to building knowledge and understanding of effective PreK-3rd grade policy and practice, with an emphasis on instruction and engagement in learning. Read more...
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Immigration Reform: Building Fences With Shadows or Bridges of Hope and Dreams?
The Southwest is a place of great opportunity, enchantment, and grandeur, and yet, also a place of poverty and inequality in the United States. Through its children, it is also a place that will play an expanding and critically important role in either the successes or failures of our nation. In fact, the border region (defined here as the seven states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado) accounts for: Read more...
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Using Student Achievement Data to Evaluate Teachers
As of 2012, 20 states and DC require evidence of student learning to play a role in evaluating teacher performance. As a result, while states and school districts are struggling to find sound methods to measure young students' achievement, they are nevertheless rushing to implement evaluation systems without thinking through the risks, according to a new policy paper from the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation. Read more...
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PreK-3rd: Getting Literacy Instruction Right
PreK-3rd: Getting Literacy Instruction Right, the ninth in the FCD series of Policy to Action Briefs outlines the elements of strong PreK-3rd literacy instruction including: what high-quality instruction looks like,what supports enable teachers to carry out strong literacy instruction, and what policies enable schools to carry out strong PreK-3rd reading instruct Read more...
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FCD's 2013 Young Scholars!
Since 2003, FCD has made grants to 41 early career researchers through the Young Scholars Program. The 2013 Young Scholars and their studies, which will help create a greater understanding of the lives of new American children are: Read more...
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Free ICPSR Data Workshop! Coordinated Data Analysis: Maximizing Early Care and Education Data
As part of their Summer Program, ICPSR is hosting a free data training workshop regarding coordinated data analysis. Read more...
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New York Times: Studies that Highlight Benefits of Early Ed
Investments in Education May Be MisdirectedBy EDUARDO PORTERJames Heckman is one of the nation’s top economists studying human development. Thirteen years ago, he shared the Nobel for economics. In February, he stood before the annual meeting of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Read more...
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Unauthorized Immigrant Parents and Their Children’s Development
A new report from the Migration Policy Institute by Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Jenya Kholoptseva considers how parental unauthorized status affects child development. Read more...
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Improbable Scholars: PreK-3rd in Union City, NJ
Union City, New Jersey: Union City Public Schools has overcome the crippling effects of poverty and prejudice to close the achievement gap between its low-income Hispanic students and their wealthier peers across New Jersey. Read more...
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