Vision to Practice: Setting a New Course for Early Childhood Governance
During the past decade, the federal, state, and local governments, along with early childhood experts and advocates, have been giving increasing attention to reducing the fragmentation, uneven quality, and inequity that characterize early childhood programs and services. A constant thread hroughout this work is the proposition that governance is an essential ingredient for building a system that can bolster all the important elements necessary for children's healthy development and learning.
In this exploratory study, we tried to gain insight into the status of efforts to build governance into comprehensive early childhood systems.
Given wide attention and experimentation, the time is ripe to appraise what has been learned from responses to the call for better early childhood governance during the past decade. What new things have we discovered about what does and does not work? Is governance meeting the high expectations set for it (with coordination, alignment, equity, efficiency, accountability, and leadership all on its plate)? To what extent has thinking about governance coalesced among those who work on early childhood system building? Is governance still viewed as a crucial linchpin in early childhood system building and essential to ensuring effective and coordinated programs for children and families?
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| Author | Stacie Goffin, Jana Martella, and Julia Coffman |
| Publisher | Goffin Strategy Group |
| Publication Date | January 31, 2011 |
| Publication City | Washington DC |
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| Submitted to Point K | June 9, 2011 - 10:50am |
