Lanier County Family Connection Is Looking For New Volunteers to Keep Book Nooks Full Across the Community
Lanier County Family Connection is looking for over 10 new volunteers to keep book nooks, or little libraries, full across the community.
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Linking Stable Housing to Child Well-Being
Research links housing instability, homelessness, and poverty to adverse effects on young children’s health, development, and future school performance.
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Early Childhood Education: Quality and Equity
This summary provides an overview of the current research about how best to embed and adapt quality improvement systems and measures of quality to include equity in early childhood education.
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Freedom Schools Provide Haven of Support and Learning for Students in Peoplestown
Funding from Coaching for Literacy enabled Emmaus House, in partnership with the Get Georgia Reading—Campaign for Grade Level Reading, to transition the program to meet the educational and socio-emotional needs of K – 3 children, funding critical supplies, training, books, and literacy kits.
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Remembering Former First Lady of Georgia Sandra Deal
Sandra Deal believed every living thing on the planet has the capacity to do remarkable things if placed in fertile soil. That’s why she and her husband, former governor Nathan Deal, wanted our schools to be top-notch.
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Early Childhood Social and Emotional Development and the Impact of High-Quality Early Childhood Education
There are more than 900,000 children birth through age 6 in Georgia, and 126,000 of those children may require mental health services.
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Improving Transition for Young Children from Early Education to Elementary School
A growing body of research is focusing on the importance of streamlining and improving coordination in the transition from early education settings to the public school system.
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Engaging Our Youth to Improve Georgia’s Civic Health
What do young people need from their communities? How can decision-makers change local systems to better support younger constituents?
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Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Education: Beyond Academics
Longitudinal research shows that participating in high-quality early education is associated with positive outcomes in a wide range of quality-of-life areas.
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A Story of Impact: Early Education and Literacy in Cook County
The COVID-19 pandemic kept many of the Cook County Library’s youngest patrons away for over a year, but Briella was one of the first to return, along with her mom, Sarah McRae, and her younger sister Shelby.
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Longitudinal Study of Georgia’s Pre-K Participants to Third Grade
Researchers at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted an extensive assessment of the Georgia Pre-K program’s impact on children as they continue through the third grade.
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Coming Together to Protect Our Children
In the early days of the pandemic, there was an assumption that children were not as vulnerable to the coronavirus as adults. Now, the virus is having an impact on more children and youth, and this is affecting their opportunity for in-person learning, which is critical to a child’s ability to thrive.