Policy Recommendations for Literacy Learning
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National Center for Literacy Education - NCLE
Remodeling Literacy Learning: Making Room for What Works
-  Executive Summary
-  Full Report
Findings Key findings from the NCLE survey, explored in more detail in the body of the report, yield the following conclusions about how US educators are currently working together to meet rising literacy expectations and how best to support them going forward.

1. Literacy is not just the English teacher's job anymore.
2. Working together is working smarter.
3. But schools aren't structured to facilitate educators working together.
4. Many of the building blocks for remodeling literacy learning are in place.
5. Effective collaboration needs systemic support.

Policy Recommendations Policymakers at the school, system, state, and national levels have a central role to play in remodeling literacy education. To make room for sustained growth in literacy learning, policymakers must:

1. Provide the necessary support to ensure that educators know how to teach the elements of literacy pertinent to their content areas.
2. Embed the collaboration of educators in the school day. This is critical for deep student learning and is a necessary prerequisite to the success of other school reforms.
3. Fund professional learning that is ongoing, job-embedded, and collaborative; educators who engage in this kind of learning are better able to engage and advance literacy learning across grades and subjects.
4. Structure the use of educator time to maximize the development of collective capacity for improving literacy learning across a school or school system.
5. Promote accountability by encouraging educators in a school or system to reach shared agreements about successful literacy learning and the steps they will take together to fulfill these agreements.

Science in the Early Grades
The Progress of Education Reform, Education Commission of the States
Report explores the benefits of including a strong science curriculum in the early years and includes recommendations for policymakers. 
Excerpts from Key Takeaways
All children need high quality early science learning experiences...
Science supports children's learning and school readiness in other areas...
Children are ready and eager to engage in science exploration, from their earliest years. ..