November 30, 2011 — Erikson’s Early Mathematics Education Project was featured in a Wall Street Journal article about the project’s work with Chicago’s teachers and its expansion under the “i3″ grant. More »
November 29, 2011 — Valerie Strauss published Samuel Meisels’ guest blog post on the Common Core Standards in the Washington Post. More »
November 7, 2011 — Kathy Brock interviewed Chip Donohue for this ABC 7 (WLS-TV) story about toddlers using iPads. More »
November 4, 2011 — Dana Goldstein wrote about Samuel Meisels' Work Sampling System for a Slate article about assessing kindergarteners. More »
October 13, 2011 — Samuel Meisels was quoted in this Chicago Sun-Times article about a symposium focused on developing local strategies to put children on track for success. More »
October 11, 2011 — Jill Barshay interviewed Chip Donohue for this Hechinger Report article about a Los Angeles first-grade classroom using the "blended learning" approach, in which students learn from computers as well as teachers. This story was also published in the Sacramento Bee. More »
September 20, 2011 — The Fussy Baby Network was listed as a resource in this Public News Service article about the increased risk of child abuse during the recession. More »
September 14, 2011 — Rebecca Vevea interviewed Tracy Moran for this Chicago News Cooperative story about her work to help train child care providers to improve the nutritional quality of the food they serve and incorporate more physical activity in their programs. An edited version of the story also appeared in The New York Times. More »
September 13, 2011 — Maureen Kelleher wrote about the U.S. Department of Education's visit to the Early Mathematics Education Project's training session, as well as the project's expansion under the "i3" grant in this Education Week article. More »
September 8, 2011 — Rebecca Harris wrote about the U.S. Department of Education’s visit to the Early Mathematics Education Project’s training session, as well as the project’s expansion under the “i3″ grant in this Catalyst Chicago article. Read “Federal grant expands early math project with a new PreK-3 focus” on catalyst-chicago.org » More »
August 24, 2011 — Maureen Kelleher interviewed Samuel Meisels for her Education Week blog to get his views on the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge Grant. More »
August 23, 2011 — Aisha Ray gave a presentation for this Education Week webinar, along with Oscar A. Barbarin III, Hertz Endowed Chair in Psychology at Tulane University. More »
August 3, 2011 — Michelle Manchir interviewed Margret Nickels for this Chicago Tribune story about the importance of mentors for children and the decline in availability of programs like Big Brothers Big Sisters. More »
July 29, 2011 — Howard Ludwig interviewed Gillian McNamee for this Southtown Star article about whether parents should let their children win at games. More »
June 21, 2011 — Rebecca Harris included our New Schools Project in this round-up of initiatives focused on the early childhood education continuum in this Catalyst Chicago article. More »
June 11, 2011 — Samuel Meisels expressed his thoughts on the Department of Education's Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge Grant in this guest blog post for New America Foundation's Early Ed Watch. The post was shared and quoted in the blogs In Quotes and The Quick & The Ed, and again in a later blog post for New America Foundation. More »
May 31, 2011 — Chris Maxwell explains how the New Schools Project works, as well as its goals and successes, in this podcast for New America Foundation. More »
May 24, 2011 — Erikson's Early Math Project and its work to improve math education for the youngest students was featured on WBEZ. More »
May 20, 2011 — Erikson’s Early Math Project was featured in The New York Times’s Chicago pages, as reported by the More »
May 6, 2011 — Maureen Kelleher wrote about the findings of Erikson's study of Illinois's pre-k programs in this Education Week article. More »