Posts tagged ‘school readiness’
Striving Together
Wow! Our community is making meaningful strides in improving school readiness for all children, and 4C is proud to be playing a significant role in this achievement.
Strive, a partnership involving the communities of Cincinnati, Newport and Covington whose purpose is to “create a world class education system where every child succeeds from birth through college,” just issued its 2010 report card, and progress is everywhere to behold. The single measure used to report on school readiness is the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment-Literacy (KRA-L) in Ohio and the DIAL 3 in Kentucky. Since 2005, the percent of “ready” children in Cincinnati Public Schools has risen from 44% to 53%, using the KRA-L; in Newport the increase has been from 60% to 70% using the DIAL 3.
Strive has created a structure to measure progress system-wide and that has increased the focus on results – a huge improvement. The two strategies where investments have been made, and are paying off, are home visitation of at-risk mothers (with an array of supports), and efforts to improve the quality of child care.
The national and local data is clear – high quality child care results in improved child outcomes, and at-risk children gain the most advantage from high quality early childhood education. 4C is providing coaching and technical assistance to child care centers on both sides of the river, and the improvements are visible everywhere. It is exciting to be a part of a region that is so committed to supporting children and families.
