Opportunities and Challenges for Preschool Expansion
As states adopt a bigger role in preschool, state leaders need to be ready to steer through tough questions of quality, access, funding, and continuous improvement.
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California’s Transitional Kindergarten: Lessons Learned
States can learn from California's statewide launch of transitional kindergarten, which has impacts on other ECE providers, workforce preparation and compensation, professional development, funding, and program evaluation, as well as implications for system governance.
Preschool for All
The state role in early education keeps growing. This Standard details the ways that states have expanded access to quality preschool, the research that supports these efforts, and the growing pains these initiatives are likely to experience.
Early Literacy Work Group
NASBE formed the Early Literacy Work Group so that state board members and staff can learn from national experts about early-literacy trends and research and from other states that have employed effective policies and practices to increase young children’s reading success.
Doing More by Doing Less
State boards ought to be reckoning with how to value and support teaching as a profession and an art.
How Background Knowledge Builds Good Readers and Why Knowledge Building ELA Curricula Are Vital
A common base of content knowledge and coherent, comprehensive, and sequential curricula to deliver it are prerequisites for reading comprehension. Most students are not getting what they need.
A Trip to the Theater
As you engage in standards making on your state board, expect no credit, but keep your head down and stay focused on substance.
What Role Do States Play in Selecting K-12 Textbooks?
A network of states move the needle on quality without usurping local control.