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Cara Jackson offers tips on using evidence-informed resources to help states, districts, & schools improve literacy instruction. 

Summer EBT can improve food security among school-age children, and successful implementation is dependent on partnerships between agencies and retailers. 

Co-loading Summer EBT benefits on the same card with Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program benefits results in high Summer EBT redemption rates.

This blog asks how we can promote attendance in Head Start, which expands access to early care and education for children from low-income households.

Read more about how branding amplified the story of our evaluation work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Electronic Benefit Program demonstration project.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

The blog explores the challenge of Head Start's teacher shortage amid the “back to school” season, and the need to address fair compensation for educators.

Public charter schools may operate independently of local district requirements, but a systems-thinking approach to leadership development still makes sense.

Child care providers provide vital, professional services that have a real impact on families; this blog explains why we need to compensate them accordingly.