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…
In an op-ed for The Greenville News, Merl Code, member of the ICS Board of Directors, and Jamie Moon, President of ICS, reflect on South Carolina's improved ranking on KIDS COUNT and the partnerships that made it possible. Read the full…
By Mary C. Garvey, Associate Director of Pay for Success Financing “If you’ve done one Pay for Success project, you’ve done one Pay for Success project.” This saying in the Pay for Success (PFS) movement speaks to how different each PFS…