by Adena White | Nov 2, 2022 | E8 Team
Excel by Eight (E8) has promoted Jessi Rice Woods to communities director. Rice Woods began working for E8 as a community consultant in January 2019, marking the beginning of the initiative’s shift from the Arkansas Campaign for Grade-Level Reading to its current...
by Adena White | Oct 3, 2022 | E8 Foundations
In early September, Excel by Eight partnered with the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Arkansas Asset Funders Network to host a roundtable discussion on “Child Care and the Economy.” The event featured business and industry...
by Adena White | Aug 30, 2022 | E8 Communities
In March 2019, Sevier County participated in the first round of Early Development Instrument assessments. The EDI results, combined with findings from a community input process and a child development questionnaire, showed room for improvement in the areas of physical...
by Adena White | Aug 25, 2022 | Education
One of the biggest threats to the child care industry is losing qualified teachers due to low wages. In fact, last summer, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) surveyed 7,500 providers and found that more than half of the respondents...
