By Bryan Boroughs, Vice President, Institute for Child Success Over the last several days, Congress completed some important work for America’s young children. That news was overshadowed in major news outlets by the controversies around the spending bill, DACA, and…
As many of our readers will know, funding for the federal government’s operations expires at midnight tonight, and Congress is working to enact a spending measure before that date. Yesterday, the U.S. House passed a bill that it sent to…
2017 was a powerful year for the children of South Carolina and beyond -- and with your help, the Institute for Child Success (ICS) will continue this great work into 2018! From Columbia to Seattle to Washington, D.C., hundreds of stakeholders attended ICS…
As part of Prematurity Awareness Month, the March of Dimes released their annual Premature Birth Report Card which revealed that the preterm birth rate increased nationally for the second year in a row – 9.8 percent of births in 2016…
By this point, most families of preschoolers have settled into their school-year routines. But for a startling number of American families, this routine is subject to change abruplty through disciplinary measures, including suspension and expulsion in pre-K. Why are suspensions…
By Alexis Herschkowitsch, Innovation Fellow In June, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings hosted a webinar to discuss year-two results of the world’s first Development Impact Bond (DIB) for education. For those unfamiliar, Development Impact Bonds work similarly to Social…
By Megan Carolan, Director of Policy Research Sunday, September 10 is Grandparents Day, a holiday that seems to get lost in the shuffle of back-to-school and cleaning up from Labor Day picnics. A national holiday falling on the first Sunday…
As students and families get ready for the return to school - with all the excitement and nerves that come with it! - ICS wants to share with you how we spent our summer. It was less about beach reading, and more…
A groundbreaking new resource offers research-based policy, practice and program options to states and communities working to improve third grade reading proficiency. What Works for Third Grade Reading is a collection of 12 working papers that address…