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2020 NIEER Report: Federal/State Partnership Needed to Expand High-Quality, Full-Day Preschool

By Ashley Walker | Apr 29, 2021

As expected, the COVID-19 pandemic set back state preschool enrollment and funding across the country, according to the 2020 edition of The State of Preschool Yearbook by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at the Rutgers Graduate School of...

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RAPID-EC Survey Highlights Challenges for Families During COVID-19

By Celeste Yager-Kandle | Apr 9, 2021

New data from the RAPID-EC Project (Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development-Early Childhood) highlights the challenges families with young children face during the COVID-19 pandemic. “How Are Our Children? Updates and Policy Implications from the...

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Child Care in Rural Oregon: A Report from The Ford Family Foundation

By Rafael Otto | Feb 12, 2021

A new report from The Ford Family Foundation in Roseburg, Oregon examines approaches to addressing systemic inequities in Oregon’s child care system. Oregon has struggled with child care availability for years. In 2019, 90 percent of the state was designated a...

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On Purpose: Stories from the Lives of Oregon Nonprofit Leaders

By Ashley Walker | Jun 23, 2020

On Purpose, a new book by David Dickson, profiles thirty-four Oregon nonprofit leaders, and features Swati Adarkar, CI’s president and CEO, in the chapter titled, “The Pragmatic Idealist.” Dickson writes of Adarkar’s childhood trips to India, which shaped her...

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Bonamici Report: Child Care in Crisis

By Ashley Walker | Jun 15, 2020

What We're Reading Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici has issued a report on the state of child care in Oregon and across the nation. “Child Care in Crisis: Solutions to Support Working Families, Children and Educators,” is informed by conversations with providers,...

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A Growing Presence on Opinion Pages: Early Childhood

By Helen Shum | May 27, 2020

If you’re struggling to keep up with the sheer number of recently published opinion pieces relevant to early childhood, you’re not alone. The coronavirus pandemic is bringing more attention to a number of longstanding issues that affect children's healthy...

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2019 NIEER Report Lauds SSA, Sounds Warning for COVID-19 Impact

By Ashley Walker | May 13, 2020

The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) has released its annual State of Preschool Yearbook, lauding recent developments in Oregon and raising the alarm about impacts from COVID-19. The report cites the 2019 passage of Oregon's Student Success...

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EdWeek: Oregon Earns a B on Early Years, C+ for Overall Education Quality

By Helen Shum | Jan 22, 2020

Education Week’s latest report on education quality gives Oregon a C+ and a ranking of 32nd in the country. When broken down into three stages of a student’s life, (early foundations, school years, and adult outcomes) the analysis finds that Oregon does slightly...

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Why Are Kindergarten Teachers Quitting?

By Melissa Duclos | Jan 21, 2020

“I have been a teacher’s aide for 15 years... We are asking these 5- and 6-year-olds to do things that they are not emotionally able to do, and we are now seeing many young children with anxiety.” Psychology Today recently published a collection of comments from...

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Report: The State of Child Care in Oregon

By Helen Shum | Jan 15, 2020

The Oregon Early Learning Division has released its first of three reports on the state of publicly funded child care. The reports are mandated by passage of HB 2346 last March. The State of Early Care & Education and Child Care Assistance in Oregon offers a...

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