Learning Curve essays examine early education; analyze the workforce; identify the local, state, and national policy and systemic decisions that can help close accessibility and equity gaps; and explore how states and cities serve their youngest students.

• November 2021: Examining the landscape of prekindergarten programs (Michael Little)
• April 2022: State Policies Shape the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of the Prekindergarten Workforce (Erica Greenberg, Grace Luetmer)
• June 2023: Means-Tested State Prekindergarten Programs Are More Segregated Than Universal Prekindergarten Programs (Walker Swain, Shuyang Wang, Joseph-Emery Kouaho)
• June 2024: Different Settings, Different Experiences: Equity and Quality in DC’s Mixed-Delivery Public Prekindergarten System (Erica Greenberg, Rachel Lamb, Leonardo Restrepo, Christina Weiland)
• December 2024: How Public PK3 Mitigated School Enrollment Declines during the Pandemic (Anika Alam, Breno Braga, Justin B. Doromal, Erica Greenberg, Tomás Monarrez, Leonardo Restrepo, Rachel Lamb)