“2024 State of Preschool” Report: Access and Quality Issues Linger Despite Record Enrollment and Investment Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 6/18/2025 on 6/18/2025 Publicly funded preschool provides children with vital educational opportunities at some of the most consequential stages in their cognitive and social development. While most U.S. states and the District of Columbia have state-funded preschool programs, a new report by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University finds that in 2024 preschool …
A Better Way to Support Early Educators Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 1/1/2025 on 1/1/2025 Heising-Simons Foundation is helping transform the early childhood education workforce. Written by Michael Blanding This article is part of The Stories that Make Us, featuring key efforts in the Foundation’s history. Students and a teacher at EDvance outside. Teachers at EDvance inside. Students and teachers at EDvance outside. A student and a teacher at EDvance …