The Standard
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.
Project
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.
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State boards ought to be reckoning with how to value and support teaching as a profession and an art.
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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.
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As you engage in standards making on your state board, expect no credit, but keep your head down and stay focused on substance.
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A network of states move the needle on quality without usurping local control.
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Change management requires authentic, context-informed practices that are more social and emotional than technical in nature.
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State boards can take a lesson from the work of leading states.
