NIEER Newsletter

Hot Topics Early Childhood Program Participation 2019: First Look Just out is a new report based on data from the 2019 National Household Education Survey regarding early childhood care and education for children birth to age 5 and not yet in kindergar

Hot Topics Nebraska Survey Finds Child Care Providers Need Help During Pandemic Nebraska’s early care and education providers are under extraordinary stress from the pandemic and need more support to stay in business, according to a survey released by

Hot Topics  The Persistence of Reading and Math Proficiency: The Benefits of Alabama’s Pre-Kindergarten Program Endure in Elementary and Middle School Researchers examining the impact of Alabama’s First Class Pre-K (FCPK) program on children’s reading

Hot Topics NIEER Survey: More Than 4 Million American Children Lost Preschool Education Due To Pandemic as Classrooms Closed and Home Learning Opportunities Declined America’s preschools schools failed to meet children’s needs after shutting down in-pe

Hot Topics Early Learning Report Takes Aim at Education Inequity The Children’s Equity Project and the Bipartisan Policy Center published a new early learning equity policy agenda aimed at closing opportunity gaps in learning systems. “Start with Equit

Hot Topics Research Finds “Staggering” Early Developmental Inequalities within and between Countries: 25% Globally Suspected to be Delayed Research using early childhood development data from health surveys conducted in 63 low- and middle-income countr

Hot Topics Study: The Educare Intervention: Outcomes at Age 3 A randomized trial evaluated the effects of Educare, a center-based early education program designed to provide high quality experiences, on children’s learning and development at age 3. The

Hot Topics Special Report: Access to High-Quality Early Education and Racial Equity Universal high-quality preschool is estimated to close the reading skills gap between Black and White children entering kindergarten by 98 percent and the math skills g

Hot Topics Study: Academic Skills at Kindergarten Entry are Cause for Concern A study of the “academic skills” of children entering kindergarten between 2010 and 2017 suggests a slight decline in academic skills at school entry in recent years. It also

Hot Topics No Equity Without Excellence A new article offers insights into how to design and implement early education policy to advance equity. Broadly examining early childhood programs and policies in the Netherlands, the authors analyze the complex

Hot Topics Assessment Ensures High-Quality, Effective SEL Programs and Practices Penn State’s Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center points out opportunities for policy makers to support data-informed social emotional learning (SEL) in a new po

Hot Topics Preschool Teacher Named National Teacher of the Year For the first time, a preschool teacher has been selected National Teacher of the Year. Tabatha Rosproy, who teaches at Winfield Early Learning Center in Winfield, Kansas, was selected ove

Hot Topics New Web-based Tool for Early Childhood Educators and Families The University of Denver’s Marisco Institute offers a free resource for teachers, home visitors, and parents to support learning in mathematics for young children beginning with i

Hot Topics “Now is the time to invest in preschool education. Here’s why” Fortune has published a new opinion article by NIEER Founder and Senior Co-director Dr. Steven Barnett. With COVID-19 threatening the lives of millions and impacting every aspect

Hot Topics Improved COVID-19 Resource Page Information is now organized into three categories: top websites, state and city responses, and NIEER resources, making it easier to find the information you need. Resources will be updated on an ongoing basis

Hot Topics State of Preschool: Action Needed to Prevent Long-term Damage to Pre-K Amid COVID-19 Crisis; Pre-K’s Bipartisan Support Offers Optimism for Future NIEER’s State of Preschool report warns of the long-term dangers to pre-K from the current hea

Hot Topics New Guidance for Emergency Childcare Policy and Providers To ensure that childcare serving essential personnel during the COVID-19 emergency minimizes health risks, Rutgers Pediatrics Early Education Working Group has produced important guid

UPDATE – COVID-19 webinar added to Events section. Hot Topics US Should Prioritize Safety and Education of Young Children Amid COVID-19 How has China been able to educate more than 220 million children—including preschoolers—safely confined to their ho

Hot Topics Keeping a child-care center open amid coronavirus NIEER Policy Advisory Tracy Jost shared with The Washington Post the challenge she’s facing to maintain her child care center business during the COVID-19 pandemic. “This has been one of the

Hot Topics: COVID-19 Resources Guidance to Schools and Families for Remote/Online Early Education The Agency and Young Children Research Collective offers guidance to teachers, parents, and caretakers seeking to educate young children using online tech