Promote and Share the BBA Principles
Early Childhood Education
Ensure access to home visiting supports and prenatal health care. Infants whose mothers receive prenatal support through the Nurse Family Partnership program are more likely to be healthy.
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Learning begins at birth, education should too. By kindergarten, poor children lag behind their better-off peers by as much as two years.
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Provide early parenting supports to prepare all children for school. Every dollar spent on nurse visits can save up to $6 in averted welfare, juvenile-justice, and health-care costs.
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School Improvement
Demand a stop to NCLB that goes beyond waivers. Great schools focus on whole-child enriching education, not tests.
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Education should expand children's horizons, not narrow their worlds. As testing of basic reading and math skills increase, critical other subjects are neglected and even omitted altogether.
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Demand reliable, holistic teacher evaluations that prioritize development over elimination. High-stakes testing has led to apparent widespread cheating in Pennsylvania, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.
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Comprehensive Strategies
Effective Common Core Standards Must Support the Whole Child, and all Children. A narrow focus on some parts of the curriculum, to the exclusion of social and emotional learning, and without supports to enable all children to benefit, will only widen existing gaps.
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Narrowing the achievement gap requires us to attack poverty, not schools. Decades of research affirm James Coleman’s findings that family and community factors are major drivers of achievement gaps.
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Expand the availability of school-based health centers. New York students with centers at school were over 50% less likely to be hospitalized for asthma than those without (10.5% versus 17%).
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Increase access to children’s mental health services. Children exposed to toxic stress factors have a greater chance of developmental delay.
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Feed all students well so their teachers can teach. Nearly half of elementary and one third of middle school teachers report having to bring food to class for their students.
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Ensure good nutrition for all children. High rates of severe obesity among low-income students impede their learning and classroom behavior.
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Children need year-round enrichment. By ninth grade, up to two thirds of the achievement gap can be attributed to disparities in summer learning opportunities.
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Acknowledging poverty’s impact on schools isn’t excusing teachers from their responsibility. Failing to do so is excusing society from ours.
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Reduce poverty to improve learning. Not a single Texas school with an 80% poverty rate prepares more than 20% of its students for college.
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