The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

These are some of the findings of a new report released by the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at The University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. Similarly, if their environment is full of adversity or a lack of stability or violence, that actually negatively impacts their brain development.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

But November election results show that several states are stepping up : In New Mexico, voters passed an amendment to increase funding for early childhood education, making funding early childhood education part of the state’s constitution. These election results are not the only good news for families and children.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

If we are to improve educational outcomes among low-income students of color, then it’s not just the black students who need black teachers; it’s white students too. Better teaching should be aimed at the source of schooling problems – future policy makers. Black teachers may have a larger policy impact when they teach white students.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020. “[Now] some of them have blossomed, some of them have overcome that.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

It was the Fall of 2020, and I delivered my testimony on Zoom to the Texas State Board of Education. This was the first time in many years that Texas was revising its sex education standards, which would impact millions of students in Texas for many years. This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The program has never been funded at the level that it needs to be to be able to meet the need, said Rachel Wilensky, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy. Do we pay our providers more and serve fewer [families] or serve more families and pay our providers less? I think of it as a whack-a-mole problem.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Across the country, parents and educators are struggling to assess and alleviate the pandemic’s toll on young children. We will see the short-term impacts,” said Cynthia Osborne, director of the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at the University of Texas at Austin. “We But we will also see this for decades to come.

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