Here you will find reports/research/articles about the elementary years. Posting here does not imply Georgia Partnership endorsement. (Red = Georgia)

The Campaign for Grade Level Reading - 3rd Grade Reading Success Matters
Funder Collaborative

This is a collaborative effort by dozens of funders around the nation to close the gap in reading achievement that separate many low income students from their peers. Relating story. (March 2012)

Kindergarten teachers find success in block scheduling (Evans)
Columbia Times

Kindergarten teachers at Grovetown Elementary School this school year discovered a better way to instruct pupils through a method of block scheduling. (May 2011)

Early Warning!  Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters

Annie E. Casey Foundation

If educators want to shrink the number of students who drop out of high school each year, they must greatly increase the number who can read proficiently by the time they're in fourth grade (USA Today). (May 2010)

Preschoolers' depression can linger; adults opt for meds
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis 

Researchers followed 306 children ages 3 to 6 for 24 months and found that depression doesn't necessarily end when Susie gives back the doll. Children who were depressed at the beginning of the study were four times more likely to be depressed 12 or 24 months later than children who weren't depressed at the beginning of the study.

Present, Engaged, and Accounted For - The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades
National Center for Children in Poverty

This analysis finds that children who are chronically absent in kindergarten have the lowest performance in reading, math and general knowledge in 1st grade.   (October 2008)

Reading First Impact Study - Interim Report
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance

The program has had no measurable effect on students' reading comprehension, on average, although participating schools are spending significantly more time teaching the basic skills that researchers say children need to become proficient readers. (May 2008)

Instructional Time in Elementary Schools:  A Closer Look at Changes for Specific Subjects
Center on Education Policy

The findings in this analysis offer further evidence that NCLB has led to sizeable shifts in the curriculum. (February 2008)