DATA AND RESEARCH TEAM (DART)
As part of Boston's Birth to Five School Readiness Initiative, the Mayor of Boston has called for the development of a five-year action plan and ten-year vision to prevent the achievement gap from birth. A 60-member Action Planning Team (APT) has been convened to create this plan. The Data and Research Team (DART) will support the development of the plan by reviewing data about young children and their families across all fields, supporting a data-driven planning process, and building a permanent base for data sharing in Boston.
Over the summer, the APT has broken into subcommittee to further its work. The subcommittees are organized around the things children need to be ready for school - High Quality, well aligned EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION; A FAMILY that is in the strongest position to assist the child's learning and development; Proactive SYSTEMS that promote healthy development and prioritize early detection and intervention for factors that impede healthy child development; and a COMMUNITY and a CITY that makes early childhood development a key civic priority. To launch each of these groups, the DART prepared a data presentation for each of their first meetings. Those presentations are linked here:
Early Care and Education
Family
Systems
City & Community
Children Ages Birth Through Five By Boston
Neighborhood
83% of Boston children 0-5 have
a son/daughter relationship to
the primary Householder
48% of Boston Householders raising children 0-5
have beyond a high school diploma.
43% of the householders with 0-5 years olds
are foreign-born, a share
much higher than the city average at 26%
47% of Householders with children 0-5 have a
native language other than English, a share higher
than the city average at 33%.
61% of Boston children experience 1 or 2 care and education arrangements per week, in addition to their parents.
Boston children spend at least 28 hours on average in care and education weekly.
71% of Boston children receive care and education in a location closer to their home than closer to where their parent's work.
For the full presentation click here.
Archives
Click here for a visual display of this process and the role of the DART.
Relevant data and research resources will be posted here following the meetings of the Action Planning Team (APT), Data and Research Team (DART), and Data Hubs.
July 2007
First Meetings of the APT - Subcommittees, Week of July 9, 2007
First Meetings of the APT - Subcommittees, Week of July 9, 2007
Over the summer, the APT has broken into subcommittee to further its work. The subcommittees are organized around the things children need to be ready for school - High Quality, well aligned EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION; A FAMILY that is in the strongest position to assist the child's learning and development; Proactive SYSTEMS that promote healthy development and prioritize early detection and intervention for factors that impede healthy child development; and a COMMUNITY and a CITY that makes early childhood development a key civic priority. To launch each of these groups, the DART prepared a data presentation for each of their first meetings. Those presentations are linked here:
Early Care and Education
Family
Systems
City & Community
March 2007
DART Meeting, 3/2/2007
DART Meeting, 3/2/2007
Children Ages Birth Through Five By Boston
Neighborhood
83% of Boston children 0-5 have
a son/daughter relationship to
the primary Householder
48% of Boston Householders raising children 0-5
have beyond a high school diploma.
43% of the householders with 0-5 years olds
are foreign-born, a share
much higher than the city average at 26%
47% of Householders with children 0-5 have a
native language other than English, a share higher
than the city average at 33%.
61% of Boston children experience 1 or 2 care and education arrangements per week, in addition to their parents.
Boston children spend at least 28 hours on average in care and education weekly.
71% of Boston children receive care and education in a location closer to their home than closer to where their parent's work.
For the full presentation click here.
Archives
March 2007
DART Members:
- Catherine Ayoub, Director, Risk and Prevention Program; Harvard Graduate School of Education
Doug Baird, President, Associated Early Care and Education
Tim Davis, Director of Research, The Boston Foundation
Dean Elson, Senior Director of Evaluation, Jumpstart
Laurie Glassman, Director, Child Care Choices of Boston
Milena Gostanian, Director of Child and Family Services, Crittenton Women's Union
Kelly Graceffa, Work-Family Services Coordinator, Child Care Choices of Boston
Nigel Jacob, Special Assistant to the Mayor, MIS, Mayor's Office
Barbara Jacobs, Director of Program Development and Evaluation, Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD)
Carleton Jones, Strategic/Capital Planner, BPS Strategic Planning
Charlotte Kahn, Director, The Boston Indicators, The Boston Foundation
Martina Kukin-Toponarski, Research Assistant, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Jennifer Louis, Lead Research Analyst, Department of Early Education and Care
Greg Perkins, Assistant Director of PDR, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Clare Sanford, Director, Community Impact, United Way of Massachusetts Bay
Phyllis Sims, Senior Epidemiologist, Boston Public Health Commission
Rod Southwick, Director of Research and Evaluation, Department of Early Education and Care
DART Facilitators:
Katie Britton
Senior Assistant for 0-5 Strategic Planning
Mayor's Office
p: 617-635-3189
Katie.Britton@cityofboston.gov
Corey Zimmerman
Research and Policy Director
Boston EQUIP / Associated Early Care and Education
p: 617-695-0700 x 229
czimmerman@associatedece.org
Other Resources:
Boston EQUIP
Boston Indicators Project
Boston Redevelopment Authority
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