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Policy Briefs

Policy Briefs, Articles, and Reports
National Center for Children and Families

This page provides links to recent publications, as well as complete publications lists for Sharon Lynn Kagan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.

Also see:

Publications of Sharon Lynn Kagan

Selected Publications of Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Complete Publications of Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

To order or inquire about a specific publication listed in the above publications links, please see: How To Request NCCF Publications.

Policy and Research Publications by NCCF Co-Directors and Researchers:

Using Assessment to Improve School Readiness and Head Start Program Quality
The National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University
(Sept. 2007)

Education in a Global Era
Sharon Lynn Kagan, Ed.D., Vivien Stewart, M.Phil.
Phi Delta Kappan International, Vol. 87 - Number 3 (Nov. 2005).

Cause for Celebration? Sustained Effects of Early Childhood Education
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D.
NHSA Dialog, 8, No. 1, pp. 1-4 (July 2005)

Ladders of Learning: Fighting Fade-Out by Advancing PK-3 Alignment
by Kristie Kauerz , NCCF graduate fellow, examines issues surrounding curricular alignment of prekindergarten, kindergarten and early elementary education through third grade. Published by the New America Foundation (January 2006).

Questions and Answers: A Conversation with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Issue Topic: Evaluating Family Involvement Programs
The Evaluation Exchange, Vol. X, No. 4 (Winter 2004/2005)
The Harvard Family Research Project

Child Care Quality: Centers and Home Settings That Serve Poor Families, co-authored by NCCF Co-Director Sharon Lynn Kagan, with Bruce Fuller and Yueh-Wen Chang (University of California - Berkeley), and Susanna Loeb (Stanford University, CA). Reprinted from Early Childhood Research Quarterly 19 (2004), a journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, published by Elsivier/Science Direct.

Do You Believe in Magic? What We Can Expect from Early Childhood Interventions
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D.
Social Policy Report, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2003) , a quarterly publication of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).

Policy Matters: Setting and Measuring Benchmarks for State Policies
Improving the Readiness of Children for School: Recommendations for State Policy - A Discussion Paper for the Policy Matters Project
Sharon Lynn Kagan, Ed.D.
Elizabeth Rigby, Ph.D.
National Center For Children and Families
Teachers College, Columbia University
Published by Center for the Study of Social Policy
February 2003

State Policies That Work: Improving The Readiness Of Children for School
(Brief No. 2, the Policy Matters Project)
Sharon Lynn Kagan, Ed.D.
Elizabeth Rigby, Ph.D.
National Center For Children and Families
Teachers College, Columbia University
Published by the Center for the Study of Social Policy
February 2003

Standards For Preschool Children's Learning and Development:
Who Has Standards, How Were They Developed, And How Are They Used?
Catherine Scott-Little
Sharon Lynn Kagan
Victoria Stebbins Frelow
(Published by SERVE, in Association with the School of Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2003)

Related Publications and Reports

Full-Day Kindergarten: A Study of State Policies in the United States
Kristie Kauerz
(Education Commission of the States , June 2005)

No Child Left Behind Policy Brief:
Implications for the Early Learning Field
Kristie Kauerz and Jessica McMaken
(Education Commission of the States, June 2004)