The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather disasters pose significant challenges to the delivery of Early Head Start (EHS) and Head Start (HS) services, impacting children's access to early childhood education. This study investigates how extreme weather events disrupt EHS/HS programs and their implications for enrollment and service delivery.

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SRI researchers measured student outcomes on the Analytic Writing Continuum for Literary Analysis (AWC-LA). Despite disruptions to program implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic, the study found positive effects on student writing quality, conventions, and productivity.

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SRI estimate of the number of new arts teachers required to fulfill the promise of California’s Arts and Music in Schools Act by region and county.

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In this paper, we explore the characteristics of teacher residency partnerships, examining several examples between one IHE, the Alder Graduate School of Education (Alder), and LEAs in California.

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Abstract The California State University (CSU), Chico’s Computational Literacy Across Secondary Settings (CLASS) program, funded by a five-year Teaching Quality Partnership (TQP) grant in 2019, aimed to recruit, prepare, and retain highly qualified teachers in high-needs rural areas. A key feature of the program was the inclusion of Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI) and computational thinking […]

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This paper describes the quality of educational videos for young children on YouTube.

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This brief presents key findings from focus groups and interviews with resource parents (that is, foster parents), ECE center-based program directors, and ECE home-based providers about their experiences caring for children ages birth through 5 in foster care.

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