This brief presents the latest information regarding early
childhood expulsions and suspensions with a special emphasis on how continuing gender and race disparities violate
the civil rights of many of our youngest learners and contribute to our nation’s costly achievement gap by locking our
boys and African-American children out of educational opportunities and diminishing the ability of early education to
provide the social justice remedy it was designed to produce.
This resource is intended to support child care administrators, IDEA
Part C and Part B 619 Coordinators, early childhood advocates, and other relevant stakeholders
in leveraging this new opportunity
This brief summarizes FFN strategies implemented by the second cohort of five grantees that started their testing and
learning experiments in 2017 (see Exhibit 1), and presents a cross-cutting summary of learnings and recommendations
for future informal care projects and the Packard Foundation’s grantmaking in this area.
This blog post outlines why Infant Mental Health Consultation is a wise investment of Child Care Development Block Grant dollars. It describes what Infant Mental Health Consultation is, why it is important, and offers examples of it in use.
This presentation, from the 2018 BUILD QRIS National Meeting, presents the research about early childhood suspension and expulsion, explores the role of state policy in prevention, the role of QRIS, and the equity issues that are critical to this work.
Today’s discussion is a 'call to action' with diverse humanitarian response
teams and federal/state/local child advocates who support preparation,
recovery and equitable outcomes for young children and families when
disaster strikes.
This slide deck is from the session titled How Do We Know What’s Working: Embracing Data & Assessment in StateExpulsion Prevention Strategies at the 2018 QRIS National Meeting. It reviews research on the drivers of expulsion and addresses the question: how do we know if we are reducing and preventing exclusionary practices?
This meeting resource notes the highlights of a presentation - Reflections on the Use of Data in a State Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Expulsion and Suspension in Early Childhood – at the 2018 QRIS National Conference.
This fact sheet, from the 2018 BUILD QRIS National Meeting, provides links to resources describing the early childhood programs at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and Wake Technical Community College.
Visit this website to download a tool that lays out a rubric for policy options to promote young children’s social-emotional development. It will support the development of state-level strategies to improve early learning settings and provide an approach to preventing suspension and expulsion.
