The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s new KIDS COUNT policy report, The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success, sends a clear message that to meet the needs of kids, we need to focus on three goals

New National Scorecard on Children’s Progress Shows Troubling Obstacles to Reaching Key Milestones

Voices for Vermont’s children has released its new children’s health report: The State of Our Children: KIDS COUNT in Vermont Health Report.

The rate of youth in Vermont between the ages of 16 and 24-years-old who are neither in school nor working jumped 50 percent between 2000 and 2011.

Reading proficiency by the end of third grade is a critical benchmark in a child’s educational development.

Bridging the Gap, Voices’ report documenting the poverty-based achievement gap in Vermont and recommending a two-pronged approach to eliminating it: