Category Archives: Publication

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Financing human capital development for economically-disadvantaged children: Applying pay for success social impact finance to early childhood development

ReadyNation Working Paper, June 10, 2013

This 2013 working paper describes how PFS can be applied to funding of early childhood development programs. Citation: Dubno, J. A., Dugger, R. H., & Smith, M. R. (2013). Financing human capital development for economically-disadvantaged children: Applying pay for success social impact finance to early childhood development (working paper). Washington, DC: Ready Nation.

The Special Data Dissemination Standard

This 2013 document is a standard of best dissemination practices for subscribing nations to guide the public release of economic information but the principles can be applied to special education information as well. For state or local organizations using the DaSy Data System Framework to improve their own data use, note that portions of this […]

Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability: Helping Stakeholders Get the Most from a Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS)

This 2013 brief discusses best practices, state examples and State Support Team (SST) tips on how to effectively use stakeholder engagement towards creating a sustainable Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS). Published by: Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SDLS) State Support Team (SST) Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability: Helping Stakeholders Get the Most from an Statewide Longitudinal Data […]

Elevator Speeches

This 2013 brief describes best practices in explaining Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) to high-level, non-technical decision-makers or policymakers in a succinct way. Published by: Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SDLS) State Support Team (SST) Elevator Speeches

Early Wins

This 2013 issue brief offers advice on strategically planning early wins. An early win is the implementation of a small outcome or objective that can be realized quickly and early in a project’s timeframe. Published by: Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SDLS) State Support Team (SST) Early Wins

The K-12 Reform Agenda: Challenges and Opportunities for Early Childhood Education

This 2013 session explores how recent state education reforms (e.g., Common Core, teacher evaluation, assessments) can challenge research-based early learning practices and policies and provide opportunities for early childhood and K-12 stakeholders to collaborate to improve policies and programs for young children from birth-3rd grade. Presented at the Improving Data, Improving Outcomes Conference in 2013. […]

Planful Changes: Using Self-Assessments to Improve Child and Family Outcome Measurement Systems

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The 2013 session describes the Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO) Center’s self-assessments and how states are using them for planning and systems improvement. The session is targeted to those who are not familiar with the ECO frameworks. Presented by: 2013 Improving Data, Improving Outcomes Conference Planful Changes: Using Self-Assessments to Improve Child and Family Outcome Measurement […]