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How state policies for Center Directors and Principals leading Pre-K programs differ, and why they shouldn't.

Literacy provides a window to the world, ensuring all children seize their potential for future success.

There has been many articles about the too-common issue of preschool expulsion. Where can early childhood educators turn if they want to better understand the issue, its root causes, and how they can become part of the solution?

Babies' first few recognizable words are memorable, inciting video calls to Grandma, proud social media posts and the like. More words means a toddler can better express needs, wants, thoughts, and feelings.

Children who enter kindergarten with foundational math, reading, and vocabulary skills are more likely to succeed in school than those who do not.

As early experiences shape the architecture of the developing brain, they also lay the foundations of sound mental health. Disruptions to this developmental process can impair a child's capacities for learning and relating to others - with lifelong implications.

BUILD Initiative and the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes recently released A Learning Table to Improve State Early Childhood Teaching and Learning Policy: Reflections and Recommendations After Three Years of Implementation.

A new report, out today, provides 186 pages of answers to one of the toughest questions in education: What does it take to get preschool right?