Key strategies:   

• Best practice home visitation
• Quality early care and education

Supporting strategies:

• Social, emotional and physical health
• Parenting education

Public policies:

• Integrate and align state early learning systems as outlined in state Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge Grant applications
• Develop longitudinal data collection systems that track child data birth through high school
• Increase the quality of and investments in early care and education programs
• Improve and expand state home visiting programs
• Expand professional development systems and other supports and incentives to move programs to quality
• Improve early learning content standards and align with K - 12 standards
• Develop a comprehensive Kindergarten entry assessment in conjunction with a definition of Kindergarten readiness
• Maintain and support access to physical, mental and dental health care for children
• Increase funding for child care settings in ways that are collaborative with public schools but market-based 
• Increase articulation of ECE course work between two and four-year higher education institutions