Minnesota
October 2007 (Updated) - Minnesota State Early Childhood Profile - Minnesota policies that promote health, education, and strong families to help with early development and school readiness and contextual data related to the well-being of young children, National Center for Children in Poverty.
November 2006 - Minnesota Early Childhood Initiative: Lessons Learned 2003-2006 - The story of the early childhood coalitions organized by the six Minnesota Initiative Foundations in Greater Minnesota.
June 2006 - Building Connections: Six State Case Studies of Early Childhood System Building at the State and Local Levels (Minnesota at page 17), Build Initiative.
March 2006 - The State of Preschool: 2005 State Preschool Yearbook - Ranks all 50 states on access to, resources for and quality of state preschool initiatives in the 2004-2005 school; Minnesota ranks 18th in resources for preschool and scores 4 out of 10 on quality review, National Institute for Early Education Research.
May 2005 - Minnesota ranks 34th out of 40 states for pre-Kindergarten expulsions. Minnesota’s prekindergarten expulsion rate of 3.4 per 1,000 is over 4 times higher than its K-12 expulsion rate of 0.8 per 1,000, Prekindergarteners Left Behind: Expulsion Rates in State Prekindergarten Systems, Yale University Child Study Center (Minnesota fact sheet).
January 2004 - Feeling the Pain: The Emerging Impact of Minnesota's $86 Million Cut to Child Care - The effects of last year's drastic cuts to Minnesota child care assistance programs are beginning to emerge and it is clear that working families and children are struggling and/or returning to welfare.
2003 - Preventing Crime with Quality Child Care: A Critical Investment in Minnesota's Safety, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids.
2003 - Minneapolis Public Schools 2002-2003 Districtwide Assessment Results, Contains startling Kindergarten Readiness data.
October 2003 - Child Welfare Research Agenda for the State of Minnesota - A summary of the most pressing research questions affecting work with children and families of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Gamble-Skogmo Land Grant Chair in Child Welfare and Youth Policy.
October 30, 2003 - Mueller, Marsha R., "Parent Involvement in Kindergarten and Third Grade Education: What Former Participants in Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) and Other Parents Report," Minnesota Center for Survey Research [Tip: page through for the "Key Findings" boxes]
March 2003 - Early childhood care and education in Minnesota: A status report - Describes the current status of Minnesota's early childhood care and education system, Wilder Research Center.
November 2000 - Action Plan for Early Care and Education in Minnesota - A report of the Minnesota Early Care & Education Finance Commission.
National
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Check for recent reports, National Center for Education Statistics.
Head Start Fact Sheets - National Head Start Association.
Key Research on Factors Affecting Early Learning and Cognitive Development - Connect for Kids.
Linking Economic Development and Child Care, Cornell University.
National Center for Children in Poverty: Policy Framework - Provides a framework for understanding public policy issues important to child development.
State Early Childhood Policy Technical Assistance Network (SECPTAN)- A network of early childhood researchers, consultants, policymakers, and practitioners providing credible and unbiased help to state decision makers on policy issues.
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May 2007 - Dollars and Sense: A Review of Economic Analyses of Pre-K - Quick reference and analysis of current pre-k impact studies, Pre-K Now (Press Release).
January 2007 - The Science of Early Childhood Development: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do - The need to address significant inequalities in opportunity, beginning in the earliest years of life, is both a fundamental moral responsibility and a critical investment in our nation’s social and economic future, National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
January 2007 - Cost-Effective Investments in Children - Review of benefit-cost evidence identifies four areas of investment that merit expanded federal funding, Budgeting for National Priorities project, the Brookings Institution.
June 2006 - The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool: Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and the Fiscal Sustainability of States and the Nation, Committee for Economic Development.
January 2006 - Reaching All Children? Understanding Early Care and Education Participation Among Immigrant Families - Summary of research on early education in immigrant families, including rates of Head Start participation, including research-based policy recommendations, Center for Law and Social Policy.
December 2005 - The Effects of State Prekindergarten Programs on Young Children’s School Readiness in Five States, National Institute for Early Education Research, Rutgers University.
November 2005 - Spending Smarter: A Funding Guide for Policymakers and Advocates to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness - National Center for Children in Poverty.
June 2005 - Head Start Impact Study: First Year Findings (Table of Contents), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (Executive Summary).
April 2005 - Early Childhood Education for All A Wise Investment, Recommendations arising from “The Economic Impacts of Child Care and Early Education: Financing Solutions for the Future” a conference sponsored by Legal Momentum’s Family Initiative and the MIT Workplace Center.
Spring 2005 - School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps, The Future of Children, The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. [Requires free registration.]
February 2005 - Getting Ready - Findings from the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative, Sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Prepared by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT.
January 2005 - Building the Foundation for Bright Futures - Final Report of the National Governor's Association Task Force on School Readiness.
October 2004 - Exceptional Returns: Economic, Fiscal, and Social Benefits of Investment in Early Childhood Development, "The timing of these fiscal benefits resulting from a nationwide ECD program should appeal to those concerned about the fiscal difficulties posed by the impending surge of retiring baby boomers......For example, the government-wide budget savings in 2030 and in 2050 from ECD investments begun next year would be enough to offset about one-fifth of the deficits in the Social Security trust fund projected for those years. This potential contribution to the solvency of the Social Security system would be achieved without raising social security taxes or cutting benefits" (executive summary), Economic Policy Institute.
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September 2004 - Child Care Assistance Policies 2001-2004: Families Struggling to Move Forward, States Going Backward, National Women's Law Center.
August 2004 - Investing in Early Childhood Education in Ohio: An Economic Appraisal, Ohio Could Save $782 Million in Taxpayer Money by Investing in Children, The report shows that Ohio could save more than $782 million in taxpayer funds by simply providing twice as many spaces in preschools across the state. The author, Clive R. Belfield of Teachers College, Columbia University uses economic analysis and new empirical evidence to describe and calculate the economic payoff from an expanded investment in early childhood education for the state of Ohio.
August 2004 - From Kindergarten Through Third Grade Children ’s Beginning School Experiences, National Center for Educational Statistics.
June 2004 - Full-day and Half-day Kindergarten in the United States: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 - (shortcut, read the 5 page conclusion) National Center for Education Statistics.
February 2003 - Analysis of the Messages of the Early Childhood Movement, Annenberg Public Policy Center.
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (2000) - Use this online Table of Contents to read the sections that interest you.
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