Supporting Research

• Itasca Report: Evaluation of Minnesota’s Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge- Scholarships and Title I PreK Incentives, Minnesota Departmant of Education, Published 2013.

• NAZ Report:Evaluation of Minnesota’s Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge- Scholarships and Title I PreK Incentives, Minnesota Departmant of Education, Published 2013.

• St. Paul Promise Neighborhood Report:Evaluation of Minnesota’s Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge- Scholarships and Title I PreK Incentives, Minnesota Departmant of Education, Published 2013.

• Inequality Policy Brief: Responding to Rising Inequality: Policy Interventions That Ensure Opportunity for All, Hass Institute, UC Berkley, Published 2014.

• Minnesota’s Tomorrow:Equity Is the Superior Growth Model, PolicyLink, published 2014.

• Minnesota School Readiness Study: Developmental Assessment at Kindergarten Entrance Fall 2009, Minnesota Department of Education, published April 2010.

• Minnesota’s One Child School Readiness Dividend, by J. Diaz and R. Chase, Wilder Research, published July 2012.

• Ounceofprevention.org

• In Brief: The Science of Early Childhood Development. Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain. Center on the Developing

• The State of Preschool 2011. National Institute for Early Education Research. 2011

• The cost burden to Minnesota K-12 when children are unprepared for Kindergarten. Richard Chase, Brandon Coffee-Borden, Paul Anton, Christopher Moore and Jennifer Valorose. Prepared for The Bush Foundation, December 2008.

• Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return. Arthur J. Rolnick and Rob Grunewald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2003.

• HCRC’s Midwest Expansion of the Child-Parent Center Education Program: http://www.humancapitalrc.org/midwestcpc/index.cfm

• Closing the Achievment Gap in Academic Performance, Ounce of Prevention Fund

• Preventing the achievement gap, Heckman Equation

For more information, please contact:

Drew Henry, MinneMinds Campaign Manager
952-851-7228
dhenry@tunheim.com