Prosper Lincoln News
A mid-way progress report of Prosper Lincoln (2018)
Published 3-28-2018 The Prosper Lincoln team would like to thank you for stepping up to this important agenda. Our Developers are now past the half way mark on the 4-year strategic plan and now is a good time to provide you with an update on our progress. Here are a...
Gallup BP10 Assessment to Identify Future Builders from Lincoln Students
One of Prosper Lincoln’s strategic objectives related to the Innovation & Entrepreneurship focus area is to provide opportunities that will connect students to innovation. Thanks to the Future Builders Challenge, high school students in Lincoln can identify their...
Read Aloud Lincoln efforts encourage early childhood education
On behalf of the Prosper Lincoln community agenda, the Read Aloud Lincoln campaign has launched. Read Aloud Lincoln is a two-year initiative that includes a passionate group of partners who want to spread the word to parents and caregivers that 15 minutes of reading...
New research finds it hasn’t gotten easier for poor kids to catch up
The kindergarten-readiness gap between low-income and high-income students has not closed in a generation, even though parents are more involved than ever in their children’s education and state-funded pre-K, nutrition programs, and prenatal care are more accessible...
Leading the Way: A Guide for Business Engagement in Early Education
High-quality, affordable, and accessible childcare has a significant impact on the economic growth and competitiveness of our companies and country. Yet America is facing a childcare challenge that threatens the productivity and strength of the workforce of today — as...
Building partnerships with business to build a pipeline of qualified employees
Lincoln businesses now have a partner in helping them find the next great employee. Our local American Job Center (AJC) provider is ResCare Workforce Services, a national service provider dedicated to connecting talent to business. The AJC is building partnerships...
Fostering a Love of Literacy: Through Libraries, Schools, and Families
When leaders at the Oakland (California) Public Library’s Melrose branch realized that they weren’t drawing a good crowd to their traditional story times—even though the sessions featured some dynamic children’s librarians—they decided they needed to try a different...
Three Principles to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families
Recent advances in the science of brain development offer us an unprecedented opportunity to solve some of society’s most challenging problems, from widening disparities in school achievement and economic productivity to costly health problems across the lifespan....
Could we improve America by treating 2-year-olds better?
In Wichita, Kansas, single mother Tiffany McNitt sometimes cries after dropping her kids, aged 2 and 3, at their babysitter’s house on her way to work. It’s not just that she’ll miss them—she worries her children aren’t learning anything and are already falling...
East High Students Build Little Free Library…and relationships
Last spring, after a classroom discussion on the importance of reading, East High senior Chantel Bade mentioned that she'd like to keep a supply of books at the trailer court her dad manages. That thoughtful idea blossomed into a school-wide effort to build and stock...