This report informed education advocates and stakeholders about the innovative strategies that states used to include pre-k in their Phase 1 proposals for Race to the Top.

This 2010 report, authored by Marisa Bueno, Linda Darling-Hammond and Danielle Gonzales, reviewed research on training for pre-k teachers and concluded that educators with at least a bachelor’s degree coupled with specialized training in early childhood are best able to foster development of the cognitive, social and emotional skills children need to be ready for kindergarten.
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An estimated one in five children go without dental care each year. States play a key role in ensuring that low-income children have access to basic, preventive dental care. This 2010 report, The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children, found that two-thirds of states are doing a poor job. The report was produced by the Pew Center on the States with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the DentaQuest Foundation.

States that ignored public sector retirement challenges now face growing bill coming due—bills that may have significant consequences for taxpayers. This report from the Pew Center on the States examined the roots of the problem and how the economic crisis is spurring states into action.

Pew's annual report on state government is a nonpartisan, analytical look at the Great Recession's effects on policy and politics in the 50 states—including larger trends that have the potential to change state government in lasting ways. 
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