Unlocking ESSA's Potential to Support Early Learning
This report offers an introduction to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and explores major provisions that have implications for the early learning system.
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Framework for Connecticut's Statewide System of Early Childhood State and Local Partnerships
The Early Childhood Funder Collaborative, a project of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, developed this report for the purpose of developing recommendations for an infrastructure connecting state child-serving agencies with local communities and communities with each other.
What Early Learning in ESSA Can Look Like for States and Districts
First Five Years Fund (FFYF) has developed this resource to serve as a helpful tool for states writing innovative ESSA early learning plans. This shareable, downloadable resource highlights the law’s express early learning provisions, as well as others that could strengthen and expand early childhood initiatives at the state and local level.
A Comprehensive Guide to Education Data and Resources
HARTFORD, CT -- Connecticut Mirror education reporter Jacqueline Rabe Thomas has shared her education-related datasets.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
BRISTOL, CT -- On November 28, a $13,525 grant from The Broad View Fund at Main Street Community Foundation was awarded to support a collaborative exchange between Imagine Nation, A Museum Early Learning Center, the Bristol Preschool Child Care Center, and the Talcott Center for Child Development. Together, they will be launching an innovative curriculum called Bristol=Resilient Children.
Thursday, July 5, 2018
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- Reach Out and Read has launched a new research study being conducted in Connecticut. Thanks to the generous support of The Grossman Family Foundation, and The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr/ U.S. Bank Foundation, the study, "Rx for Success: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Technology-Based Dialogic Reading Training Incorporated into the Reach Out and Read Program" started enrolling families in April of 2018.