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New York Times reporter and author David Bornstein featured ACS client Every Child Succeeds in an October 16 blog post about addressing postpartum depression. Specifically, Bornstein highlighted Every Child Succeeds’ Moving Beyond Depression program, which trains therapists to treat depression in conjunction with home visitation. In a 2013 clinical trial, mothers participating in Moving Beyond […]

Shortly after the polls closed in Ohio on November 4, 2014, it became clear that Republicans had secured significant victories across the state with significant super-majorities in both houses of the General Assembly and nearly twice the number of state school board representatives. What does this outcome mean for key issues that affect ACS clients? […]

ACS client National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) was recently featured in the New York Times and on Seattle Public Radio. In the New York Times article, Kyle Snow, NAEYC’s applied research director, lent his expert perspective to an examination of the pros and cons of e-readers for early learning, and the […]

We often think of parents and early childhood experts as leading advocates for public investment in preschool programs, but Illinois preschools have a group of vocal advocates who aren’t frequently on the “usual suspects” list: law enforcement. According an article in the Chicago Tribune, law enforcement officials are aware of the direct correlation between the […]

A new blog post from the Brookings Institution calls on the nation’s business community to understand and support the importance of early childhood development if it wants to create a workforce for the future. Authored by Brookings Visiting Scholar Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, a former World Bank VP, the post highlights the fact that while education […]

Common sense should tell you that students living in poverty will not have the same advantages as those who are economically well off, and that those differences in circumstances will show up as differences in academic performance. That’s exactly what the latest round of state report-card data shows for Ohio schools, according to a Columbus […]

ACS President Lori McClung recently coached close to 100 executive directors, communication directors, and board chairs from NC Smart Start partnerships in the art of crafting a compelling story about their organizations. As part of the Smart Start conference in North Carolina, Lori taught her workshop attendees how to effectively frame messages about early childhood […]

This summer was an eventful one for one of ACS’s first clients, Towards Employment. Based in Cleveland, Towards Employment is building career pathways for economically disadvantaged and formerly incarcerated citizens. They help people prepare for a job, get a job, keep a job and advance in a career. Since 1976, they have helped over 120,000 […]

Having returned from The BUILD Initiative’s conference on Quality Raging and Improvement Systems (QRIS), ACS Senior Director Rebecca Cohen has six high-level takeaways to share: 1. Data and research about the state of early childhood education is getting better, but it’s still not complete. Look for new and deeper information from studies coming out this […]

Collaboration seems to be the model for our times, and it should be. No single person or group can solve the sticky problems that are seemingly entrenched in our education, justice and economic systems. Indeed, solving societal problems requires the engagement of that society — and that requires collaboration. But collaboration that doesn’t engage a […]