English-language enrichment, coupled with the development of learning readiness and social skills, will prepare these students to function at their highest capacity in a mainstream classroom. It is an ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. As California expands transitional kindergarten, English learner advocates are urging school districts to prioritize children learning ...

One critical component of the governor’s strategies should be to lay a strong foundation for our state’s youngest English/dual-language learners so they can be better prepared for later grades. This ...

they can understand—present nearly “insurmountable barriers” to ensuring their children benefit from early-childhood education and are as kindergarten-ready as many of their peers, the report states.

In this volume, leading researchers and implementation experts from an array of disciplines provide evidence-based, cost-effective, and actionable strategies for delivering quality early childhood ...

Early learning is taking center stage in education, and for good reason. As schools across the country face resource constraints and potential teacher shortages, innovative approaches to early ...

Early learning educators share what a future might look like, in which every child in the country has access to high-quality early learning experiences and the resulting long-lasting impacts. Carrie ...

While COVID has meaningfully impacted our K-12 and higher education systems in the U.S., the early years have arguably been even more challenged. Child care supply has been decimated and parents of ...

Our Community. Our Neighborhood. Our Kids. Education Begins at Birth - Make sure every child is ready for success! The Action for Early Learning Initiative is a Drexel-led collaboration working to ...

Ensuring children’s success in school has to start with quality early childhood education. Drexel UCP supports this effort through the West Philadelphia Action for Early Learning Initiative (AFEL) – a ...