Jill McCarroll

With the start of 2025, many of us are making new year’s resolutions, thinking ahead to what we can change and improve upon in the coming year. We here on the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2023–24 (ECLS-K:2024) team are doing the same. We are planning for another year of study activities and are excited that the new data being added to the ECLS program will be able to inform research, policy, and practice over the coming years.

Hello December! With Thanksgiving wrapped up, this is the perfect time to thank all the staff that support the ECLS study. We recognize all that principals, teachers, and other school staff do for the ECLS study, and we are very grateful! In most schools, staff have been hard at work for weeks, or even months, communicating with our school recruiter staff, and we thank them for all of their effort.