By 2020, any Ohio child care provider accepting Publicly Funded Child Care subsidies must enter into Ohio’s quality rating and improvement system. This paper examines the availability of child care and explores how this landscape may change, examining the locations most at risk for losing child care sites and highlighting possible deserts.

STAR Read-Aloud Practices are designed to develop and strengthen young children’s awareness of and knowledge about print. They utilize evidence-based reading techniques developed from years of research.

A practitioner-friendly, scientifically based curricular supplement designed to develop and strengthen young children’s early foundations in language and literacy. Lessons are organized around adult-child readings of high-quality storybooks and supplement – not replace – an educator’s instruction. It is widely used in early childhood programs in the United States and internationally.

This month, PDK released results from the 50th annual poll of public attitudes about public schools. The survey offers the most trusted source of opinion data on K-12 education issues ranging from school funding and teacher pay to safety and school day hours.

For early childhood advocates, the latest federal preschool development grant offers a chance for Ohio to improve the quality of programming not just in Pre-K, but in childcare programs from birth to age five. 

Giftedness is about more than just being smart; it’s about experiencing the world in a different way than the people around you. This difference is exactly why gifted education is so important for children of all ages…

Earlier this month, Ohio’s State Board of Education expressed its support for early childhood spending through two actions. The first was approval of a budget plan that would protect the state’s early childhood program in the event of budget cuts. The second is found in a document outlining priorities for additional funding.

A number of studies have found that fictional stories can reduce prejudice and make us more empathetic towards people who are different from us.

Dad said “public school was a ploy by the government to lead children away from God”, while grandma added we should be in school and not “roaming the mountain like savages.” So begins the compelling memoir of Tara Westover, raised in the rural shadows of Buck’s Peak in Idaho.

Not unlike the majority of education policy, most of the decision-making power related to giftedness falls to the states. This devolution of power results in very different approaches to how gifted students are identified and served across state lines.

Last month, the Center for American Progress (CAP) published a list of recommendations for newly elected governors to take on early childhood within their first 100 days. Let’s take a look at how Ohio Governor-elect Mike DeWine aligns with these recommendations.

According to a recent poll from the First Five Years Fund (FFYF), a national, bipartisan advocacy group, American voters are consistent in their support for early learning and care. This holds true regardless of survey respondents’ political affiliation.