Report

• Falling Short: Most States Lag on Dental Sealants

  Jan 08, 2013 - Pew’s 50-state report finds that most states are not doing enough to use a proven strategy for preventing tooth decay, unnecessarily driving up health care costs for families and taxpayers.

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• Infographic: Preventing Costly Child Abuse

  Mar 19, 2012 - Some of our nation’s costliest social problems—like child abuse and neglect—are rooted in early childhood. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time to recognize the proven policies that help break the cycle of abuse and that promote the social and emotional well-being of children and families. Learn more about how home visiting gives families a solid foundation and helps states save money.

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• A Costly Dental Destination: Hospital Care Means States Pay Dearly

  Feb 28, 2012 - Already stressed state budgets are shouldering an extra burden to cover expensive emergency room (ER) treatment for toothaches and other avoidable dental ailments, according to a new report by the Pew Center on the States.

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• Q&A With Libby Doggett

  Feb 10, 2012 - On February 16-17, 2012, the Pew Center on the States is co-sponsoring a research summit on the quality of home visiting programs and services, along with Every Child Succeeds and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Pew Home Visiting Campaign Director Libby Doggett discusses the goals of the conference and how it will help accelerate advancements in the field.

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  Dec 08, 2011 - Water fluoridation is one of the most cost-effective strategies for improving dental health, yet some communities are still debating whether to start or stop fluoridating their water. Dr. Bill Maas, a dental policy expert and advisor to the Pew Children’s Dental Campaign, talks about how fluoride helps improve dental health and what’s at stake.

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• Q&A

  Oct 27, 2011 - Pre-K Now Director Marci Young discusses the state of pre-k education and how the campaign’s momentum will be carried forward.

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  Sep 22, 2011 - Erin Currier, a project manager with Pew’s Economic Mobility Project, discusses how people move up and down the economic ladder over their lifetimes and across generations.

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  Sep 14, 2011 - Nationwide, more than 16 million children go each year without seeing a dentist. Pew’s Shelly Gehshan discusses the gap in care.

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• Improving Access to Dental Care

  Sep 09, 2011 - A recent report by The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reinforces the validity of eight policy benchmarks recommended by The Pew Children’s Dental Campaign to strengthen children’s dental health.  The IOM report’s key recommendations

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• Q&A

  Sep 07, 2011 - With the school year now underway, Marci Young, director of Pew’s Pre-K Now project, explains how the federal initiative will affect state programs.

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• Q&A

  Aug 23, 2011 - 2011 08 23 2011 08 23   Libby Doggett, Director, Pew Home Visiting Campaign Voluntary home visiting programs match parents with trained professionals who provide information and support during pregnancy and throughout a child’s first three years. Early intervention

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• On the Home Front: Early Care and Education a Top Priority for Military Families

  Mar 14, 2011 - Securing quality early care and education programs for their young children is vital to military parents at home and when deployed. | Pre-K Now 

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• Paying Later: The High Costs of Failing to Invest in Young Children

  Mar 01, 2011 - Spending less on early childhood programs today means higher costs for taxpayers tomorrow. | Partnership for America's Economic Success 

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• Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K Fiscal Year 2011

  Dec 08, 2010 - Despite persistent budget shortfalls, leaders of both parties in a majority of states supported high-quality pre-kindergarten investments in FY11| Pre-K Now 

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• It Takes a Team: How New Dental Providers Can Benefit Patients and Practices

  Dec 06, 2010 - Most private-practice dentists who hire new types of dental providers can serve more patients while maintaining or improving their financial bottom line. | Pew Children's Dental Campaign 

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• Study: Dental Therapists Offer Quality Care, Patients are Highly Satisfied

  Nov 16, 2010 - Roughly 17 million children in America go without dental care each year. Some states are investigating the use of dental therapists to help expand access to dental care.

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• Expanding Children's Access to Dental Care: The Minnesota Story

  Sep 13, 2010 - Advocates campaigned for the law to license dental therapists, expanding dental coverage to underserved children in the state. | Pew Children's Dental Campaign 

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• Lessons in Early Learning

  Aug 27, 2010 - Montgomery County used federal dollars to implement an education reform strategy built on a foundation of providing high-quality pre-k education. | Pre-K Now 

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• Engaging Families in Pre-K Education

  Jul 06, 2010 - By involving parents, grandparents and other caregivers, pre-k programs can enhance children's learning at home and at school. | Pre-K Now 

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• Improving Dental Care for Medicaid-Insured Children in Washington State

  Jun 29, 2010 - A program in Washington state has made a remarkable impact in confronting dental disease among Medicaid-insured children under six. | Pew Children's Dental Campaign

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• Formula for Success: Adding High-Quality Pre-K to State School Funding Formulas

  May 25, 2010 - When the right policies are in place, the school funding formula offers the best options for providing pre-k programs with secure funding. | Pre-K Now 

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• Leadership Matters: Governors’ Pre-K Budget Proposals Fiscal Year 2011

  May 20, 2010 - Despite widespread fiscal distress, the nation's governors are proposing to essentially hold state investments for pre-kindergarten steady for FY 2011.  | Pre-K Now 

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• Pre-K & the Race to the Top

  May 10, 2010 - This report informs education advocates and stakeholders about the strategies states used to include pre-k in their proposals for Race to the Top. |  Pre-K Now 

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• The State of Preschool 2009: State Preschool Yearbook

  May 05, 2010 - This latest Yearbook presents data on state-funded pre-kindergarten during the 2008-2009 school year.

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• The Case for Home Visiting: Strong Families Start With a Solid Foundation

  May 04, 2010 - Voluntary home visiting programs match parents with trained professionals to provide information and assistance during pregnancy and throughout their child's first three years. This support not only helps families thrive, but saves states money on costly social problems.

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• The Case for Pre-K

  Apr 06, 2010 - For state and federal officials seeking to improve school performance, 50 years of evidence shows that high quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten is among the best strategies for education reform. This brief highlights findings from the latest evaluations of state-funded pre-k programs that continue to document gains in key measures of student learning.

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• The Economic Costs of Cutting Early Childhood Programs

  Apr 05, 2010 - Investing in early childhood development helps save states money in the short and longterm. | Partnership for America's Economic Success 

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• A Matter of Degrees: Preparing Teachers for the Pre-K Classroom

  Mar 09, 2010 - Teacher effectiveness is one of the most important factors impacting the quality of pre-kindergarten programs. But defining the optimal preparation for early childhood educators has been a subject of ongoing debate.

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• Pew Children's Dental Campaign Q&A

  Feb 23, 2010 - Shelly Gehshan, director of the campaign, discusses the crisis in children’s dental health and policy solutions within states’ reach. Read more. 

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• The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children

  Feb 23, 2010 - An estimated one in five children go without dental care each year. States play a key role in ensuring that low-income children have access to basic, preventive dental care. A new report finds that two-thirds of states are doing a poor job.

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• Cutting Lead Poisoning and Public Costs

  Feb 22, 2010 - A new study identifies the potential for significant cost savings from reduced rates of lead exposure. | Partnership for America's Economic Success 

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• Reimbursing Physicians for Fluoride Varnish

  Dec 16, 2009 - Fluoride varnish is an inexpensive but important tool in improving children's dental health. A new Pew factsheet shows that states can reduce the significant barriers children face in accessing cavity-preventing varnish by reimbursing physicians for dental health care.

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• Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K Fiscal Year 2010

  Oct 22, 2009 - “Votes Count” analyzes states’ pre-k budgets and reveals which legislatures and governors are committing the resources necessary to develop the successful students central to tomorrow’s work force.

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• New Beginnings: Using Federal Title 1 Funds to Support Local Pre-K Efforts

  Sep 01, 2009 - With an infusion of Title I dollars through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, school leaders have an opportunity to expand local pre-k programs to more children. This policy paper outlines the increased federal investments in Title I and highlights districts that have used this funding stream successfully to establish and strengthen their early education programs.

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• Beyond the School Yard: Pre-K Collaborations with Community-Based Partners

  Jul 01, 2009 - When state and federal funding for pre-k falls short, school administrators can collaborate with community-based programs to expand higher-quality early learning opportunities to more young children. This report highlights the benefits and challenges of collaboration between K-12, Head Start, faith-based organizations and other community-based groups.  

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• Help Wanted: A Policy Maker’s Guide to New Dental Providers

  May 28, 2009 - The Pew Center on the States and the National Academy for State Health Policy, with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, conducted a comprehensive literature review and interviews with leading experts in several states to learn about existing proposals for new dental providers.  The report explores three provider types—dental therapists, community dental health coordinators and advanced dental hygiene practitioners — along with steps that state policy makers can consider to develop these new providers in their states. A companion brief is also available.

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• Leadership Matters: Governors’ Pre-K Budget Proposals Fiscal Year 2010

  May 05, 2009 - "Leadership Matters" evaluates budget proposals for the next year and governors’ remarks in recent state of the state addresses to determine which leaders count voluntary, high-quality pre-k among their top education and economic development strategies.

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• The State of Preschool 2008

  Apr 08, 2009 - The 2008 State Preschool Yearbook is the sixth in a series of annual reports profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States.

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• Quality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population

  Jan 16, 2009 - Quality Counts 2009 is the 13th edition of Education Week’s series of annual report cards tracking state education policies and outcomes.

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• Reading, Writing and Hungry

  Nov 19, 2008 - Rising food and energy costs are making food insecurity an increasingly alarming issue for everyone, especially children.

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• The Pre-K Pinch: Early Education and the Middle Class

  Nov 01, 2008 - This report reveals how eligibility requirements and prohibitively high costs for private pre-k education lead many middle-class families to sacrifice basic household needs to pay for early education and care for their children, or to settle for low-quality options with unproven benefits.

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• Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K Fiscal Year 2009

  Sep 24, 2008 - This report highlights the business community's interest in pre-k as a strategy to build human capital and the workforce of the future and also ranks – from a parent's perspective – the places families would have the best and worst chances of enrolling their children in a high-quality, state-funded pre-k program; ten states make the notable lists.

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• The Hidden Costs of the Housing Crisis

  Jul 09, 2008 - Without a safe, stable home to call their own, young children face tremendous obstacles to the critical cognitive, behavioral and social development that occurs during their earliest years, concludes Joydeep Roy of the Economic Policy Institute in a paper for the Partnership for America’s Economic Success.

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• Meaningful Investments in Pre-K: Estimating the Per-Child Costs of Quality Programs

  May 01, 2008 - When state leaders seek to increase investments in pre-k, they face a number of choices and potential tradeoffs. This brief, written jointly with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and Early Childhood Policy, examines the costs associated with quality in pre-kindergarten programs.

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• Leadership Matters: Governors’ Pre-K Proposals Fiscal Year 2009

  Apr 24, 2008 - For fiscal year 2009, 16 governors and the mayor of the District of Columbia acted boldly to protect and grow high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten programs. Their proposals total $261 million in increased funding for pre-k and would make early childhood education programs available to 60,000 more children, if passed by state legislatures. Tested by fiscal challenges, these leaders remained committed to pre-k. Others named here failed to recognize that pre-k is vital to both children’s success in school and the health of the economy.

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• The State of Preschool 2007

  Mar 19, 2008 - The 2007 State Preschool Yearbook is the fifth in a series of annual reports profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. This latest Yearbook presents data on state-funded prekindergarten during the 2006-2007 school year. The first report in this series focused on programs for the 2001-2002 school year and established a baseline against which progress may be measured over six years. Tracking these trends is essential, since changes in states' policies on preschool education will influence how successfully America's next generation will compete in the knowledge economy.

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• Funding the Future: States' Approaches to Pre-K Finance

  Feb 01, 2008 - This report highlights strategies and sources that states and some cities are tapping in order to expand and supplement current pre-k funding during tough fiscal times.

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• Quality Counts 2008

  Jan 09, 2008 - Education Week’s 2008 report card grades the states across six areas of education performance and policy. While the U.S. posted a grade of C overall, the average state earned a D-plus on public school achievement, the poorest showing of any graded category. Marks were also low for state efforts to improve teaching, where 10 states earned a grade of D or lower.

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• Report: Quality Counts 2008 Press Report

  Jan 08, 2008 - Education Week's annual report card grades the states across six areas of education performance and policy. While the U.S. posted a grade of C overall, the average state earned a D-plus on public school achievement, the poorest showing of any graded category. Marks were also low for state efforts to improve teaching, where 10 states earned a grade of D or lower.

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• Report: Investing in Children

  Dec 03, 2007 - Issue brief and full report from the Partnership for America’s Economic Success showing that, between 2006 and 2017, the share of Gross Domestic Product that the federal government will invest in children is projected to decline by 14 to 29 percent.

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• Time for Reform: A Matter of Justice for American Indian and Alaskan Native Children

  Nov 19, 2007 - American Indian and Alaskan Native children are overrepresented in the nation's foster care system at more than 1.6 times the expected level, according to this report by the National Indian Child Welfare Association and the national, nonpartisan Kids Are Waiting campaign, a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Yet, tribal governments are excluded from some of the largest sources of federal child welfare funding.

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• Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Early Childhood Learning and Program Quality

  Oct 31, 2007 - A report from The National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force that details their final set of recommendations for state early childhood accountability systems, and for linking such efforts to standards-based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grades.

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• Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K Fiscal Year 2008

  Oct 24, 2007 - In fiscal year 2008, high-quality, voluntary, state-funded pre-kindergarten again received substantially increased financial and legislative support from lawmakers in the majority of states. New state pre-k funding exceeds $525 million, an increase of more than 12 percent over FY07 expenditures, bringing total state investments in early education across the country to $4.8 billion.

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• Pre-K for Military Families: Honoring Service, Educating Children

  Jul 03, 2007 - This report recommends that state policymakers help the children of our nation's military personnel meet the unique social, emotional, and education challenges of the military lifestyle by providing them with high-quality pre-k.

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• Report: Dollars and Sense: A Review of Economic Analyses of Pre-K

  May 01, 2007 - This Pre-K Now report reviews 10 studies on the economic impact of pre-k and shows why a growing number of business leaders and economists are increasingly convinced that high-quality pre-k is a sound investment.

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• Report: Leadership Matters: Governors’ Pre-K Proposals Fiscal Year 2008

  Apr 03, 2007 - Every year, more governors prioritize high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten politically and fiscally and do so more assertively. Find out whether your governor is part of the trend in our annual report on governors' pre-k budget proposals.

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• Report: The State of Preschool 2006

  Mar 14, 2007 - The 2006 State Preschool Yearbook is the fourth in a series of annual reports profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. The 2006 Yearbook presents data on state-funded prekindergarten during the 2005-2006 school year.

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• Funding the Future: States’ Approaches to Pre-K Finance

  Feb 08, 2007 - The year 2005 saw more than $600 million in funding increases for pre-kindergarten. To better understand this substantial new investment, Pre-K Now presents an in-depth look at the diverse sources tapped by states to fund pre-k.

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• Pre-K Education

  Jan 01, 2007 - The Pew Charitable Trusts seeks to fundamentally change the way this country invests in education for its young children.  This brochure describes our pre-K strategy and investments.

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• The State of Preschool 2005

  Mar 23, 2006 - The third in a series of annual reports produced by the National Institute for Early Education Research that profile state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States.

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