What Alabama Voters Say  

A coalition dedicated to expanding quality pre-kindergarten education for 4-year-olds in Alabama has found voters support spending more money on the effort -- regardless of party affiliation. View our findings here.

Exciting news!  Pre-K Now has released a new brief, "The Case for Pre-K" highlighting the vast and emerging body of research that continues to demonstrate the potential of publicly funded, large-scale pre-k programs as a strategy for school reform.

Early Literacy Research Noted in Trainings and Workshops
Every Child Ready to Read at your library® 

Update Pre-Kindergarten in the South: Preserving the Region's Comparative Advantage in Education
The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) released a report on March 2 warning Southern states against endangering critical, hard-earned gains in early childhood education – In conjunction with the report’s release, SEF is making available some “web extras” that provide additional details to the SEF study. See them all here.

Kindergarten Teacher Survey
Alabama’s public kindergarten teachers have a front-row seat when it comes to seeing the difference that pre-K education makes in their students. That they overwhelmingly agree that pre-K is extremely important is significant. More than 2,300 of the state’s 3,200 public kindergarten teachers responded to a survey conducted by VOICES for Alabama’s Children and the Alabama State Department of Education. Click here to find out what they said.

Duncan: Early Ed Can Get Schools Out of 'The Catch-Up Business'
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the fullest picture yet of his vision for a birth-to-8 education system in a speech that emphasized the importance of "raising the bar" on the quality of early learning environments.
Read the full story here.