Dr. Michael Warren, MD, MPH, FAAP, former Deputy Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health, frequently lectured on the first 1,000 days of a child’s life, examining the protective factors that allow for healthy development. In this presentation, Warren...
New research from the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy studied how to increase parent participation in text-based children's early learning programs and identified "a simple enrollment change that yields big...
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the Tennessee Department of Education released estimated data regarding learning loss for Tennessee students resulting from COVID-19 school closures through the summer months. Preliminary data projects an estimated 50% decrease in...
In 2014, Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation released “An Impact Analysis: Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in Tennessee, 2004-2014,” demonstrating how the Imagination Library program is making a difference in early childhood literacy based on 10 years of research...
The Hechinger Report writes on the efficacy of book delivery programs, summarizing a recent study done to measure the impact of free books on developing a child’s early literacy skills. The article notes, “Literacy experts have long known that reading to toddlers,...
Seeding Success, a Memphis-based education collaborative, partnered with Shelby County Schools to analyze academic and non-academic variables for approximately 19,000 Kindergarten through Fourth Grade students between the academic years 2013/14 and 2015/16 who were...
Porter-Leath, sponsoring organization for Books from Birth, Shelby County’s Imagination Library affiliate, surveyed Early Head Start, Head Start, and Pre-K families in 2017-2018 who were also enrolled in Books from Birth to measure the program’s impact on early...
The Urban Child Institute, in partnership with Memphis City Schools, evaluated Shelby County’s Books from Birth program, the local Imagination Library affiliate, and its effects on kindergarten readiness in 2012 with a follow-up study in 2014. Their analysis indicates...
In 2007, the Tennessee Board of Regents completed the first large-scale study of the Imagination Library’s impact on the learning preparedness of children enrolled in public schools at that time. Tennessee Kindergarten and Pre-K teachers collectively affirmed that...
“An Analysis of Early Literacy Assessment Performance Among Knox County Imagination Library Participants: 2014-15 Knox County Kindergarten Class” In this study, early literacy data was collected through Knox County Schools’ formative testing to determine how former...
