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Full-Day Kindergarten: Expanding Learning Opportunities
Full-day kindergarten isn't just smart education policy; it's smart economic policy. And it benefits everyone: children, families, schools, communities, and businesses.
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Early Childhood Behavioral Health: Focusing on Early Intervention and Prevention
Early childhood behavioral health is the capacity of the child from birth through age six to experience, regulate and express emotions; form close and secure interpersonal relationships; and explore the environment and learn. Infant mental health refers to how these issues affect development in the first three years of life. Early childhood behavioral health is synonymous with healthy social and emotional development.
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Leaving Young Children Behind: A Lost Opportunity for School and Workforce Success
A well-educated, globally competitive workforce is the cornerstone of
a vibrant economy and prosperous communities. Research shows that
high-quality early care and education is one of the best strategies for
cultivating a skilled workforce by narrowing the achievement gap and
giving young children a solid foundation in critical early social and academic
skills.
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Early Childhood Development: A Proven Investment
High-quality early childhood education is a critical component of K-12 success, and research shows it can help close the achievement gap. By increasing access to high-quality early childhood development supports, Ohio has the opportunity to ensure children are ready to learn and succeed in school, compete in the global economy and contribute to thriving communities.
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Can Early Care and Education Programs Change the Economy? An Overview of Selected States
A thriving state economy depends on a cutting-edge business climate. In order to create such an environment, it is necessary to enhance factors such as access to raw materials, proximity to markets, quality of public services, and quality of labor. While many states vie for new businesses by offering "public subsidies" or "tax benefits," studies have shown that this approach may not influence relocation decisions.
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Early Care and Education: Forty Years of Research
The impact of high-quality early care and education (ECE) has been a source of debate for scholars and policy makers for decades. But research shows not only that early childhood is the bes time to influence brain development, but that high-quality programs benefit both children and the society by giving children the basic social, emotional, and academic tools to learn before they start school. Studies also demonstrate significant economic returns for the public due to commitment to high-quality ECE.
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Long-Term Economic Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood Programs: Proven Programs Boost Economic Development and Benefit the Nation's Fiscal Health
Various studies have examined the benefit-cost ratios of publicly-funded early childhood development programs, and several have found their net benefits to be both positive and large. But what are their longer-term economic impacts - in terms of improving job growth and fiscal health - on federal and state governments?
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Early Childhood Development: A Proven Investment in School Success
High-quality early childhood education is a critical component of K-12 success, and research shows it can help close the achievement gap. By increasing access to high-quality early childhood development supports, Ohio has the opportunity to ensure children are ready to learn and succeed in school, compete in the global economy and contribute to thriving communities.
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Giving Ohio's Children a Fair Start: Early Childhood Investments in the 2008-2009 State Budget
groundWork is pleased to release its latest report “Giving Ohio’s Children a Fair Start: Early Childhood Investments in the 2008-2009 State Budget”. The report provides a thorough analysis of Ohio’s early childhood programs for the last biennium, including number of children served, funding allocated, and recommendations for the next biennium.
Investments in early childhood in the last biennium have created and enhanced opportunities for the physical, emotional, social, and educational development of Ohio’s youngest children. Programs such as full-day kindergarten, Early Childhood Education, the Early Learning Initiative, Child Care, Help Me Grow, and the Early Childhood Mental Health Program have promoted the healthy development of over 330,000 Ohio children in 2009.
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Ohio’s Early Childhood Education Program Works for Kids
An Analysis of KRA?L Scores from Districts Starting Public Preschool in the 2007?2008 School Year
In SFY2008, Ohio funded Early Childhood Education (Public Preschool) programs in 61 new school districts. The children in those programs began kindergarten in the fall of 2008 and their Kindergarten Readiness Assessment?Literacy (KRA?L) scores show what research has consistently shown – that high?quality early
education experiences prepare children to enter kindergarten ready to learn and reduce the need for expensive remediation.
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Early Childhood Outcomes in Ohio and Across the Nation
The results are in: high-quality early care and education is creating big results for young children in Ohio and throughout the country.
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Ohio’s Help Me Grow Program: Serving Ohio’s Vulnerable Infants and Toddlers
Help Me Grow is Ohio’s birth to three program that provides state and federal funds to county Family and Children First Councils to provide home visitation services for expectant parents, newborns, infants and toddlers up to age three. Help Me Grow serves two populations- families with infants and toddlers with or at-risk for developmental delays or disabilities and families who are at-risk due to certain criteria, including teen pregnancy, a history of abuse and neglect, and other factors. Help Me Grow is a voluntary program and is designed to support the child and the child’s family with the goal of enhancing the child’s development.
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Early Care and Education: Strengthening Children’s Development and Ohio’s Workforce
Ohio has invested in high-quality early education programs with the support of sound research indicating the incredible opportunity for children to learn and develop in the first years of life. The quality of life for a child and the contributions the child makes to society as an adult can be traced to the first few years of life, with 85 percent of a child’s brain being formed by the age of five. During the first six years of life a child undergoes tremendous growth and change. If this period of life includes support for language, motor skills, social skills and social-emotional functioning, the child is more likely to succeed in school and later contribute to society.
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