Reporter Eileen FitzGerald of the Danbury News-Times explores all-day kindergarten and how Connecticut school districts implement it.

Gerrit Westervelt of the BUILD Initiative notes that GOP and Dems are seeing eye-to-eye when it comes to early education. More than 2/3 of the nation's governors - 17 GOP and 18 Democrats - applied for the Early Learning Challenge grant. He notes it's quite clear there is a strong, bipartisan national movement to improve early education and that movement isn't going away.

A look at how toxic stress can impact a child's life.

An editorial that ran as part of a series in the Hartford Courant on what should be the agenda for 2012. The Courant supports universal preschool and says these actions need to be more than just "good intentions."

Governor Malloy announced that the Obama Administration has awarded a $5.2 million performance bonus to Connecticut for ‘ongoing and strong efforts to identify and enroll’ children in public health care coverage.

Governor Malloy has outlined six principles to serve as a roadmap to education reform in the 2012 legislative session.

A powerful video produced by MSNBC on families - many of them bringing in two incomes - needing government assistance through SNAP and the challenges they face in keeping their families fed. Many find themselves grocery shopping at midnight, even 4 a.m., when the money is deposited into their SNAP accounts.

The US Department of Education has announced the proposed Office of Early Learning to oversee Early Learning Challenge Grants and to coordinate early learning programs within the department. Jacqueline Jones, the senior advisor for early learning to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, will lead the office, which will be housed in the Education Department's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Our slide in the world's rankings as it impacts creating an educated workforce is discussed in this piece out of California. The United States ranks 15 out of 27 in OECD countries and second out of 27 countries in the percentage of students who enter college, but leave without earning a degree.

Fourteen communities, including Hartford, Bridgeport, Wethersfield, New Britain, Vernon, Danbury and others, are working with the national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, want to attack underlying issues that prevent children from learning to read well.