By Megan Carolan, Director of Policy Research It is easy, sometimes, for cities to dominate the conversation on education policy in America, especially in the world of early childhood. In recent years, we have seen major preschool initiatives as central…
Thanks for Joining Us! - Nurturing Developing Minds Conference & Small Talks Events ICS was pleased to partner with the Children's Hospital and The Bradshaw Institute of the Greenville Health System on the 2018 Nurturing Developing Minds Conference and Research Symposium.…
By Megan Carolan, Director of Policy Research In the less than ten years since it arrived on the American social policy scene, Pay for Success financing has helped finance 24 U.S. projects, including 7 focused on early childhood programs (as…
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…
2019 update: ICS has released two pieces of research on preschool suspension and expulsion - one focusing on the major trends on this issue nationwide and another looking specifically at rates in South Carolina. Learn more on our blog about…
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…