Expanding Opportunity for America’s Youngest Learners (Executive Summary)

The Ready To Learn program is the country’s single largest investment in children’s media. Under it, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) partnered with PBS KIDS to design a program to develop, test, and share early learning resources centered around four pillars: reach, results, resources, and relationships.

This is an executive summary of Expanding Opportunity for America’s Youngest Learners—a report that provides an overview of the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn initiative, and shows how 30 years of federal investment in educational media supported families, communities, and school readiness for millions of children.