These BBA blog posts offer a range of perspectives on the importance of ECE investments:
- Educare: A Model for Early Childhood Policymaking, by Karen Howard of First Focus and Elaine Weiss demonstrates how a high-quality, birth-to-five system of supports for children and their families can substantially mitigate the impacts of poverty and other risk factors.
- In Pre-K’s Potential as Part of a Comprehensive Pro-Children Strategy, WE Upjohn Institute Senior Economist Timothy Bartik joins Elaine Weiss to place high-quality early education in the broader education improvement context.
- Lessons for K-!2 from Pre-K Classrooms, co-authored with Julia Dadds of Educare of Lincoln, highlights several ways that best early childhood education practices could be adapted to help make K-12 education more equitable and effective.