| Author(s): | Mead, S |
| Title: | Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts |
| Source: | http://www.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/... |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Organization: | New America Foundation |
| Short Description: | This report seeks to describe how New Jersey became a national leader in early education and PreK-3rd, identify its successes and challenges, draw lessons from its experience for policymakers in other states and nationally, and provide recommendations for New Jersey policymakers to translate progress to date into sustained, large scale learning gains. |
| Annotation: | The next few years will be a critical time for education in New Jersey. The state can consolidate the gains it has made in educating young children in recent years: expand access to quality pre-K, strengthen existing infrastructure for quality, and move PreK-3rd alignment from rhetoric in code to reality on the ground in the state’s school districts. Or it can struggle to maintain a status quo that—although still better than what exists in most of the country—falls short of providing all the state’s disadvantaged youngsters the seamless, high-quality PreK-3rd early learning experience they really need to succeed.
This report seeks to describe how New Jersey became a national leader in early education and PreK-3rd, identify its successes and challenges, draw lessons from its experience for policymakers in other states and nationally, and provide recommendations for New Jersey policymakers to translate progress to date into sustained, large scale learning gains. |
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