What are the best ways for states to help young children?
The Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap has answers that were shared earlier this month at a virtual summit that drew “thousands of national and state leaders, scholars, and practitioners.” Videos of that event are posted here.
Released by Vanderbilt University’s Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center, the roadmap is an annual guide that draws on the science of child development. Specifically, the roadmap looks at:
• young children’s wellbeing
• proven, evidence-based policy strategies
• states’ implementation of 11 effective policy and strategy solutions, and
• how policy changes impact young children and their families, and how these changes reduce racial and ethnic disparities
Those 11 policy and strategy solutions are:
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Eye on Early Education is a blog of Strategies for Children, an organization that works to ensure that Massachusetts invests the resources needed for all children, from birth to age five, to access high-quality early education programs that prepare them for success in school and life. The blogger, 
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