Early Learning Websites
- Child Care Source
- Heart of America United Way
- Mid-America Head Start
- Partnership for Children
- The Family Conservancy
- United Way of Wyandotte County
Research and Studies on Quality Early Learning
Over the years a significant amount of research has proven the efficacy of quality early learning as it relates to a child’s brain development and school readiness. New findings from research conducted outside the early learning community now demonstrates how quality early learning also impacts the critical issues of military preparedness, college attendance and graduation, reading proficiency, and workforce development. In each of these studies, quality early learning is listed as a vital first step to prepare our children for success in school and life.
The following articles help tell the story of how quality early learning benefits our children’s lives, and our communities.
- Starting Smart and Finishing Strong: Fixing the Cracks in America's Workforce Pipeline
Through Investments in Early Childhood Development (U.S. Chamber / Institute for a Competitive Workforce) - Preschool?s long-lasting benefits are touted in study (Kansas City Star)
- VIDEO: Brain Hero (A collaborative project of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the University of Southern California
- National Institute for Early Education Research
- Young Mississippians: Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve
- Meeting the Workforce Needs of the Future by Meeting the Developmental Needs of Our Children Today
- The College Completion Agenda 2010 Progress Report (Executive Summary)
For more information please contact Jim Caccamo, MARC's Director of Early Learning at 816/701-8222, or send an e-mail to: jcaccamo@marc.org