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MSDE's full School Readiness report

The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) website and the Maryland Committee for Children website have information on various aspects of Maryland’s school-readiness efforts. These include:

• Children Entering School Ready to Learn: School Readiness Information, School Year 2006-2007. This report has school readiness data by state and county, by domain (skill areas such as “social and personal,” “language and literacy,” etc), by race/ethnicity, by type of prior care (for example, child care center or family child care), and by gender.
  » Children Entering School Ready to Learn
• Maryland Model for School Readiness (MMSR), a framework for assessment, instruction, family communication, and articulation among programs. MMSR can be used by child care providers, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs.
  » Information on MMSR
  » Information on a pilot program to train child care providers in the use of MMSR