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Home > Early Childhood Data> Issue Briefs Good Beginnings - Issue Briefs Good Beginnings develops Issue Briefs to provide the state current facts and figures about our keiki. "Ready or Not: Hawaii's Keiki Enter Kindergarten" Does it really take a village to raise a child? SPARK Hawaii thinks so. This well funded, multi-year effort seeks to improve the lives of vulnerable children in two communities. The strategy is twofold: (1) connecting parents, community based services, and elementary schools, and (2) changing policy at the district and state level...View Issue Brief: "Ready or Not: Hawaii's Keiki Enter Kindergarten" (293.7KB) "Quality Preschool Helps Parents Work and Children Learn" Over a decade of scientific research conclusively demonstrates that that the human brain develops more rapidly between birth and age five than during any other subsequent period. High quality pre-school programs play a critical role in this development... Good Beginnings 2004 Legislative Policy Brief.View Issue Brief: "Quality Preschool Helps Parents Work and Children Learn" (82KB) "Behind Before they Begin: Does Hawaii Prepare our Youngest Children for School?" At the beginnings of 2003, Good Beginnings produced our second issue brief, "Behind Before they Begin: Does Hawaii Prepare our Youngest Children for School?"View Issue Brief: Behind Before They Begin: Does Hawaii Prepare Our Youngest Children For School? "A Wise Investment: Spending for Young Children". In 2000, our first issue brief was research and compiled by Hawaii's Kid Watch Children's Budget Analysis and was entitled "A Wise Investment: Spending for Young Children". The brief covers school readiness efforts, programs that aid young children, the cost of early childhood programs and child care costs.View Issue Brief: A Wise Investment: Spending for Young Children Please contact our offices for free copies of these issue briefs. Good Beginnings Alliance is a member of Voices for America's Children. |
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