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  • September 20, 2021
    Positive Results from GAR Foundation’s STARS: Supporting Teachers and Ready Students

    Akron, Ohio (Sept. 16, 2021) – With the beginning of a new school year, GAR Foundation analyzed the first two years of data from its STARS (Supporting Teachers and Ready […]

  • March 25, 2021
    STARS 2.0: Still Seeing STARS

    Last week, we heard of the new $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, President Biden’s massive relief and stimulus bill that aims to support economic recovery for the millions of American […]

  • January 14, 2021
    Two Years of STARS: Supporting Teachers & Ready Students

    It’s fair to say that education begins the moment we see children as innately curious and open to the world around them. (That’s every child from birth!) That moment is […]

  • May 20, 2020
    How we can work together to help kids recover their learning

    As a community, we are responsible for helping to support our families and teaching professionals in order to advance our society. It’s not just an economic necessity, it’s a moral imperative that we practice a mind-shift now for a new future.

  • October 08, 2019
    Not just babysitting: initiative aims to improve early childhood education in Akron

    By: Jennifer Pignolet, Akron Beacon Journal For a moment, Tequlla Thomas almost had all four 2-year-olds sitting together on their floor cushions in preparation for story time at Lois Lester’s […]

  • August 20, 2019
    Governor Mike DeWine appoints Kirstin Toth to Early Childhood Advisory Council

    GAR Foundation’s senior vice president, Kirstin Toth, was recently appointed to Governor Mike DeWine’s Early Childhood Advisory Council.

  • June 20, 2019
    Shooting for the STARS in Akron

    By: Michael Douglas, Akron Beacon Journal, Editorial Page Editor Kirstin Toth shared a long article in the New York Times Magazine with the board of the GAR Foundation. The foundation […]

  • March 29, 2019
    Why the first five years matter…to our kids, to Akron, and our foundation

    Over the last year, GAR Foundation has been working with key community partners to take a closer look at a systems-focused strategy that will enhance early learning and childcare in […]

  • February 19, 2019
    What is STARS?

    A new early childhood learning initiative from GAR Foundation called STARS: Supporting Teachers and Ready Students will engage a group of 24 community-based preschools and day care providers in Akron to participate […]

  • July 26, 2018
    Ohio Early Childhood Race & Rural Equity Report

    Gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged children emerge much earlier than state and federal policy recognizes and persist long into adulthood–and race and rural geography play a role in these gaps. Groundwork […]

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