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.
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Grooming Employees for the Future
Plagued by the challenges of looming retirements, a competitive job market and compensation issues, city governments are finding ways to cultivate their own employees.
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Staying Connected—Even When It’s Against the Odds
Our best strategy for supporting literacy in Georgia is to work together, form connections, and engage with one another. So, we need to consider strategies to maintain our social emotional engagement so that we are all “refueled.”
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What Georgia’s Reading: Early Reader Recommendations
Check out these summer reading recommendations for preschoolers and early readers provided by East Cobb UMC Preschool staff.
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What Georgia’s Reading This Summer: Chapter Book Recommendations
Check out these fun titles for new chapter book readers from Cleo Joyce, programming manager at Forsyth County Public Library.
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Literacy Emerges From the Shadows
Get Meriwether Reading is reaching children by merging the arts with their literacy initiatives.