Early Childhood

Jun 19, 2018

First in Future: Executive Director of the Public School Forum of North Carolina Keith Poston

Summary: What do you think about public schools? Do teachers get paid enough? Are there too many administrators? Do we test students too much? Not enough? Should we keep students closer… 

Apr 10, 2018

KidsReadyNC Initiative Invests in North Carolina’s Children

For Lisa Hayworth, working at a community college drove home the importance of early childhood development, and if that connection seems a bit far removed—it shouldn’t. Educators at all levels… 

Mar 13, 2018

IEI ‘First in Future’ Podcast: Page Lemel and KidsReadyNC

First in Future: Where Emerging Ideas Take Flight is a podcast of the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University that connects you with people thinking big thoughts about the… 

Mar 13, 2018

First in Future: Transylvania County Commissioner Page Lemel

Summary: Next month the Institute for Emerging Issues will be launching KidsReadyNC, a four-county Tier 1 and Tier 2 focus on early childhood education.This initiative is an 18-month effort to help selected… 

Mar 12, 2018

kidoNomiCs Forum Wrap-up

Two days, 700 attendees, more than 50 speakers, presenters and panelists — and thousands more viewing the live broadcast and webstream. These are just some of the numbers behind the 2018 kidonomics Forum IEI… 

Mar 6, 2018

‘First in Future’ Podcast: Childhood Literacy with Munro Richardson

First in Future: Where Emerging Ideas Take Flight is a podcast of the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University that connects you with people thinking big thoughts about the… 

Feb 24, 2018

It Takes a kidoNomiCs Village

It takes a village to raise a child. We’ve all heard that adage, but recently our two-day kidonomics Forum here in Raleigh drove home the truth of that message for me.… 

Feb 19, 2018

Guest Blog | Early Childhood Accomplishments to Build Upon

In North Carolina, we stand on the shoulders of great women and men who recognized that our state’s future was deeply connected to our youngest children. As a result, more… 

Jan 30, 2018

Q & A with kidoNomiCs Forum Speaker Jim Hansen of PNC Bank

With our 2018 kidonomics Forum just one week away, we’re reaching out to a few our of Forum speakers to get their take on why early childhood development is important… 

Jan 23, 2018

Guest Blog | Early Childhood Shapes Potential in Many Different Ways

For many parents, the start of their career as a parent advocate is when their child enters Kindergarten. They join the PTA, they sign up for the book fair and…