Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Vision
- Eight Policy Recommendations for Accelerating Progress
- 1. Realize a Seamless Early and Elementary Learning Continuum
- 2. Improve Systems to Better Attract, Prepare, Empower, Develop, and Retain High-Quality Educators
- 3. Develop Two-Generation Strategies to Engage Families
- 4. Embrace Children鈥檚 Language and Culture as an Asset
- 5. Put More Attention on Kindergarten and the Early Grades
- 6. Promote Efficiency and Coordination to Improve Outcomes for Children
- 7. Emphasize Continuous Improvement as the Goal of Data Collection
- 8. Secure Predictable, Sustainable, and Increased Funding for Children鈥檚 Earliest Years
Eight Policy Recommendations for Accelerating Progress
To realize the vision above, we make eight recommendations and suggest specific actions for each recommendation. In the pages that follow, we outline these actions and pinpoint which actors鈥攆ederal, state, and local policymakers, as well as educators and administrators鈥攕hould help move the work forward.
1. Realize a seamless early and elementary learning continuum
2. Improve systems to better attract, prepare, empower, develop, and retain high-quality educators
3. Develop two-generation strategies to engage families
4. Embrace children鈥檚 language and culture as an asset
5. Put more attention on kindergarten and the early grades
6. Promote efficiency and coordination to improve outcomes for children
7. Emphasize continuous improvement as the goal of data collection
8. Secure predictable, sustainable, and increased funding for children鈥檚 earliest years