Advocacy

WHY ARE THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF A CHILD’S LIFE SO IMPORTANT FOR BRAIN DEVELOPMENT? Babies are born learning. Years of scientific study prove that the single most important period of brain [...]

WHAT IS FADE OUT? Fade out is the theory that gains made in high-quality early learning settings diminish over time, namely by third grade. HOW IS FADE OUT MEASURED? While there is no universally [...]

As Indiana’s state-funded pre-K program continues to expand, attracting and retaining qualified teachers must be a top priority, a new report from Early Learning Indiana finds. According the [...]

In 2017, Early Learning Indiana’s donors, partners, trainers, teachers and staff put our focus on boosting access and quality for early education. It’s been a year of impact for Hoosier [...]

Two newly-released national reports on the cost, quality and availability of child care are shedding new light on the challenges Hoosier families with young children are facing. The ChildCare [...]

It will take more than stretching dollars and pinching pennies to bring high-quality pre-K to Hoosier families, a new report from Early Learning Indiana finds. In its latest “Mile Marker” policy [...]

Indiana can and must do a better job of aligning its preschool and elementary school programs to fully reap the benefits of early education, a new policy brief released this morning from Early [...]

80 percent.   That’s how many superintendents across the country think too little is being invested in early education, according to a recent Gallup poll. The poll, conducted this past June, also [...]

INDIANAPOLIS – Today, Early Learning Indiana awarded $248,500 in capacity building grants to four early education providers, as a part of its ongoing mission to expand access to high-quality [...]

Earlier this week the National Center for Education Statistics released results from its Early Childhood Program Participation Survey – and the results were both confounding and not terribly [...]