Todd Grindal

The labor market case for early childhood education Free early childhood education boosts parental labor force participation and income, providing lasting benefits for families and the economy.

The labor market case for early childhood education www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Can video observations provide the same insights as in-person classroom visits? Our study found they can, offering a scalable, cost-effective way to support early educators.

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Learning Science and Engineering From Videos and Games: A Randomized Trial of PBS KIDS The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! - Megan Silander, Todd Grindal, Sarah Nixon Gerard, Tiffany Salone, 20... Preschool-age children receive little formal instruction regarding science and engineering concepts. Digital media interventions have been effective in supporti...

Can preschoolers build science and engineering skills by watching cartoons and playing digital games? Our new paper says yes!

Results from an experimental study just published in Educational Researcher, w/ colleagues from SRI & ED.
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Early Care and Education Is an Essential Component of the Foster Care System: A View From Arkansas - SRI This brief presents findings from a foster parent survey about the impact of ECE on their ability to accept new foster placements and the challenges they face in searching for ECE.

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Research focused on critical problems & delivering actionable results isn’t rare. This is what colleagues across the country are doing with support from federal research funds.

These projects help create stronger communities and better experiences for kids.

It is definitely not waste. [8/🧵]

Early Care and Education Is an Essential Component of the Foster Care System: A View From Arkansas - SRI This brief presents findings from a foster parent survey about the impact of ECE on their ability to accept new foster placements and the challenges they face in searching for ECE.

We’re now collaborating with government, non-profit and faith-based groups to develop & test low- or no-cost strategies to help foster parents find the care they need. (More to come on the results of those collaborations soon) [7/🧵]

To help foster families better access care, we needed to understand what matters most for them in their child care decision-making.

They told us they prioritize:

✅ Full-day care
✅ Convenient location
✅ Trauma-informed staff
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Foster families told us that they needed help in the child care search process.

Most said that rely on their own time, effort, and community networks—formal supports that are intended to help just aren’t reaching them. [5/🧵]

We learned that high-quality child care represents essential infrastructure for the foster care system.

One illustrative finding was that more than a third of surveyed foster families said they’d declined placements—even when they had room in their home—because they couldn’t find child care. [4/🧵]

Early Care and Education Is an Essential Component of the Foster Care System: A View From Arkansas - SRI This brief presents findings from a foster parent survey about the impact of ECE on their ability to accept new foster placements and the challenges they face in searching for ECE.

Last week, my colleagues and I released two briefs from a portion of this collaboration that is focused on supporting children in foster care [3/🧵]

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Early Care and Education Is an Essential Component of the Foster Care System: A View From Arkansas - SRI This brief presents findings from a foster parent survey about the impact of ECE on their ability to accept new foster placements and the challenges they face in searching for ECE.

Our team has collaborated for several years with state agency leaders in Arkansas who are deeply committed to improving outcomes for young children.

Working together, we’re generating insights and strategies to help families and childcare providers improve children's early experiences [2/🧵]

Several recent discussions of federally funded research raised questions about its value. The message from some people—sometimes overt, sometimes implied—is that it’s “waste.”

This thread provides one example of how research projects are addressing real problems for children and families. [1/🧵]

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Pathways to Pre-K In this brief, we map out families’ experiences across application and enrollment to illustrate how families come to enroll, or not enroll, in Pre-K3, DC’s public prekindergarten program for 3-year-ol...

This week, the #DC school lottery will match thousands of families with their first public school. But there is more than one path to enrollment bliss--especially in #pre-k. Check out our new brief on Pathways to Pre-K for more.
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