The Think BabiesTM NC Alliance recently shared its 2021 Policy Priorities for NC infants, toddlers and their families. The Alliance seeks to ensure that North Carolina’s youngest children, prenatal to age 3, benefit from effective and equitable public policies, programs,…
Click here to access a new 20-minute video tutorial on how to navigate the brand-new Pathways to Grade-Level Reading Data Dashboard.
The Pathways Data Dashboard supports a statewide effort to improve the collection, analysis and use of early childhood data…
Raleigh, NC (June 29, 2020) – An interactive, online dashboard of early childhood data measures that influence third-grade reading was released today by the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation (NCECF), as part of the Pathways to Grade-Level Reading (Pathways) initiative.…
Updated June 1
Two of NCECF’s partners have released updated data resources on how young children are faring in NC. The Pathways Data Dashboard, to be released this month, will complement them.
NC Child’s County Data Cards
NC Child has…
NCECF is following the work of state level Councils and Commissions that are making decisions about NC’s early childhood policy, sharing the Pathways Measures of Success Framework and Action Framework with them, and encouraging the use of an equity lens…
This op-ed was published in the Raleigh News and Observer and Charlotte Observer on October 13, 2019.
By Janet Singerman
Our state has enjoyed broad bipartisan support for early childhood investments – recognizing that the foundation for future learning, health…
Nearly one in ten North Carolina babies are born at a low birthweight, which can lead to long term delays in development and learning. We can do better. Better for our babies, and better for our economy, which depends on…
Twenty-two House Republican legislators have co-sponsored a bill to increase health coverage for low-income North Carolinians. The NC Health Care for Working Families legislation would:Expand Medicaid coverage to more than 540,000 people ages 19 to 64 who make no…
The recently-released 2019 State of Babies Yearbook by national organization Zero to Three provides a snapshot of how North Carolina’s babies and toddlers are doing. The report assesses states on a series of 31 health, family and education data indicators,…
The Legislature is in session, appropriations committees are meeting, and Governor Cooper has released his budget priorities for the 2019-2021 biennium, with a strong focus on early childhood.
Key birth-through-age-eight highlights in the Governor’s budget include:Increase in the NC…