Take a closer look at third grade reading proficiency in Massachusetts, and one thing is clear, as the charts on race and ethnicity and income shown here demonstrate. We must address troubling achievement gaps and at the same time help support children across all racial/ethnic and income groups become strong readers by the end of [...]
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Children Across MA Need Support in Reading
Posted in Demographics, Reading proficiency, Research on May 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Young Children in MA are More Diverse than Adults
Posted in Demographics on March 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Politics is in the air, and for those of us concerned about young children, we must ensure that their needs are on the election year agenda. One look at data from the 2010 U.S. Census highlights the demographic differences between the voting age population and the population of young children, birth to age 5, in [...]
Census 2010: Fewer Young Children in MA, More Urban
Posted in Business and economy, Demographics on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A quick look at the 2010 U.S. Census findings for Massachusetts tells a compelling story about the need to invest in our youngest residents. In an aging state whose prosperity depends on a pipeline of skilled, well-educated workers, the burden of sustaining the commonwealth’s future prosperity is resting on fewer small shoulders. Increasingly, the state’s [...]
Fast Facts Demographic and Educational Data Updated
Posted in Demographics, Infants and toddlers, K-12, Pre-kindergarten on November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Are you curious about the number of low-income children in your community? The high school graduation rate? Third grade reading? Preschool enrollment? Check out our Fast Facts for these and other demographic and educational tidbits. Fast Facts is a Web-based tool, with a drop-down menu that makes it easy to find data on every city [...]
Children’s Well-Being Stagnant Since 2000
Posted in Business and economy, Demographics, Research on August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The well-being of children in the United States has stagnated since 2000, after improving over the mid- to late 1990s, and the economic downturn affects millions of children, according to the 2011 KIDS COUNT Data Book released last week by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. One in five children lives in poverty, with 2009 income [...]
Census Shows Diversity of MA Children and Youth
Posted in Demographics on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The population of children and youth, under 18, in Massachusetts is increasingly diverse, according to newly released data from the federal 2010 decennial census. While we await the detailed age breakdown that will provide data on our youngest residents, from birth to age 9, to inform our work around early education and reading proficiency, the [...]
Very Young and Very Diverse
Posted in Demographics, Research on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In what the Brookings Institution calls a “momentous” sign of the country’s increasing diversity, white children for the first time do not comprise a majority of 3-year-olds. According to analysis by Brookings demographer William Frey, 49.9% of the nation’s 3-year-olds are white. Among 3-year-olds enrolled in nursery school, preschool and kindergarten, the majority are still [...]
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