 Human Services Sessions Overview
Presentations and Handouts
NCSL Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts
August 6-10, 2007
2007 Annual Meeting Early Education Sessons
Economic Returns: The Impact of Early Education on the U.S. Economy Today and Tomorrow
Accountability in Early Childhood Education: Approaches and Recommendations for States
Using Neuroscience and Evaluation Research to Inform Early Childhood Policies
Economic Returns: The Impact of Early Education on the U.S. Economy Today and Tomorrow
The session showcased business leadership in promoting early learning, highlighted new research showing the economic returns of pre-kindergarten to state government and contributions to state and national job growth. Click on links below to view speaker presentation slides. This session was made possible through a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Moderator: Senator Leticia Van de Putte, Texas, out-going NCSL President
Speakers:
Accountability in Early Childhood Education: Approaches and Recommendations for States
State legislators are seeking evidence that early childhood programs are effective and are helping children learn. Leaders of the National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force shared forthcoming recommendations around assessing young children and the programs serving them, and highlighted successful state early childhood evaluation and accountability efforts. NCSL will make the report available once it is released this fall.
Speakers:
- Tom Shultz, Project Director, National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force
- Sharon Lynn Kagan, Associate Dean for Policy and Research at Teachers College, Columbia University
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- Eugene Garcia, Vice President, Education Partnerships, Arizona State University
Using Neuroscience and Evaluation Research to Inform Early Childhood Policies
This session addressed effective ways to incorporate the science of early childhood and early brain development to inform public policy. This session included discussion of how legislators can use science in legislative decision-making and shared findings from a groundbreaking new report that integrates the science of child development with information on the effectiveness of program approaches.
Moderator: Steffanie Clothier, NCSL
Speakers:
- Representative Ruth Kagi, Washington
- Representative Pete Hershberger, Arizona
- Jack P. Shonkoff, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
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- Gillian Najarian, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
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