Scholars from the Brookings Institution collected data on 2017-2018 high school graduation rates from 37 states (including Maine) and found that despite interstate variation in overall graduation rates, in each state assessed, boys graduation rates were lower than girls (82 versus 88 percent overall). The U.S. Department of Education requires states to report overall graduation … Read more
More than one fifth of all college students are parents, who may be at risk of being pushed out of school by a system not designed to accommodate their needs. Parenting students often earn higher GPAs than their classmates without children, but are less likely to complete their degrees. Less than one third of mothers … Read more
AECF reports on child well-being prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, How adults with children in the household are faring during COVID-19, Federal and state responses to support families and children during the pandemic, and Strategies for meeting the needs of children and families now and following the pandemic. #childcare … Read more
Racial and ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity in early care and education (ECE) settings are emerging as critically important aspects of provider quality. Young children from a variety of racial and ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds benefit from culturally diverse experiences in the classroom, as well as experiences that support their households cultural background. This … Read more
A recent study in the Journal of Labor Economics evaluated the long-term impacts of Head Start on participants education and income in adulthood. The researchers used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979, a random sample of individuals aged 14-22 in 1979, until they were in their early 30s in 1994. About one-quarter … Read more
The state of Maine has sixteen Head Start grantees, operating eleven Head Start (HS) programs, three American Indian & Alaska Native Head Start (AIAN HS) programs, and thirteen Early Head Start (EHS) programs (see Table 1). In the 20152016 program year, sites operated by these sixteen grantees served 4,126 children and pregnant women. The majority … Read more
One program that connects the most economically vulnerable families with quality early childhood programming is Early Head Start (EHS). Subject to rigorous quality and staffing standards, implemented among the youngest children (prenatally through age 2), and delivered via a two-generation approach, EHS is a significant opportunity for providing quality care and education to a population … Read more
