NEW! “We Live One Day at a Time” The stories of nine families with low incomes during the first six months of the pandemic, by MDRC's Marissa Strassberger. w/ OPRE & MEF Associates mdrc.org/TC9

.Meghan McCormick on how to strengthen pre-K assessments of children’s skills: ✅Assess more comprehensive set of skills ✅Reduce burden of collecting assessments ✅Invest in data infrastructure across pre-K & elementary school via Fordham Institute fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

Why and How to Improve #PreK Assessments: What Do #HeadStart Providers Think? by MDRC's Marta Benito-Gomez & Rachel Fu, Pillars Research and Strategy newamerica.org/education-poli… via @newamerica

Thrilled to share this brief about the conceptual framework underlying the Variations in Implementation of Quality Interventions (VIQI) project!

Postsec researchers - come join me at MDRC! We're looking for an impact associate (usually a new PhD). Bridget Long Prof Dynarski is at @dynarski.bsky.social Lindsay Page Luke Miratrix Robert Kelchen Dr. Shaun M. Dougherty Jon Baron MDRC Job Posting sree.mcjobboard.net/jobs/87118?utm…

Today at SREE's #SREE2022! 9 am: Strengthening Measures of Early Learning to Be More Equitable, Scalable, and Impactful w/ MDRC's Meghan McCormick, Ximena Portilla, Michelle Maier, & JoAnn Hsueh mdrc.org/Ttc

New Annenberg Institute at Brown working paper with Christina Weiland Allison Friedman-Krauss Jennifer K. Duer Shira Mattera examining five separate mixed delivery PreK systems. Summary of findings here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Fall gathering of MDRC family well-being and children’s development fall gathering - ❤️❤️ this crew!

With @lillmoff Amanda Weissman Kehui Zhang Michelle Maier Catherine Snow Meghan McCormick JoAnn Hsueh & Jason Sachs U-M Marsal Family School of Education Ed Policy Initiative MDRC Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) BPS Early Learning

Families and children crew MDRC at @SRCDtweet in snowy Salt Lake City! Ximena Portilla Michelle Maier

Yesterday, the FCD community celebrated the Foundation’s 120+ year history of building better lives for young children at an amazing #SRCD23 President and CEO reception w/@VivianT88.🎉 It was wonderful to reconnect in person and so inspiring as we look forward to the work ahead!

Great to have some of the “fam” back together 💕

Instructional alignment is associated w/ #preK persistence: Evidence from BostonPublicSchools via Meghan McCormick, Cullen MacDowell, Christina Weiland, JoAnn Hsueh, Michelle Maier, Mirjana Pralica, Samuel Maves, Catherine Snow, & Jason Sachs sciencedirect.com/science/articl… via Elsevier | ScienceDirect

NEW! Theory of Change for Coordination and Individualization of Family Support Services in Head Start Programs, by MDRC's Michelle Maier w/ OPRE mdrc.org/work/publicati…

Thrilled to highlight DC Public Schools evidence-based work in #prek and our collaboration with Cheryl Ohlson, Christina Weiland & Erica Greenberg.

The latest debate on preK ignores the impact of high-quality curricula & aligned professional development, writes Meghan McCormick for @newamerica. The best bet is to implement evidence-based curricula that explicitly target specific learning domains. newamerica.org/education-poli…

What Do We Know About Building & Sustaining the Child Care & Early Education Workforce? Cross-Cutting Themes from a Literature Review, Environmental Scan, & Data Scan, by Michelle Maier & Sydney Roach w/ OPRE, Chapin Hall, & MEF Associates mdrc.org/work/publicati…

Too many preschool programs use curricula that under-deliver for kids and teachers. We can do better. New National Academies report lays out a vision for turning the page & shifting to evidence-based, content-rich, culturally responsive curricula: nationalacademies.org/event/42549_04…

NEW! At the Starting Line: A Guide to Laying the Foundation for an Early Childhood Classroom Coaching Initiative, by Carly Morrison & Olivia Mirek MEF Associates mdrc.org/work/publicati…