 New America's Education Policy Program recently released a report from crawling to walking, ranking state progress on birth through third grade policies that support strong readers. The report ranks states on a broad set of policy indicators that can help ensure children are on track to read on grade level by the end of third grade. There are 65 indicators in seven policy areas. Accompanying the report are interactive maps by state progress displayed via New America's data visualization and policy analysis tool, ATLAS. This video is intended to function as an ATLAS user's guide for policy leaders, policymakers, researchers, and the public. The project can be found by entering atlas.newamerica.org and by selecting View All Projects and then clicking from crawling to walking. For an in-depth project description and to learn more about the methodology, select More underneath the project subheading. A snapshot of state progress on birth through third grade policies that support strong readers. This hyperlink brings up an overview, including our methodology and seven policy areas that we evaluated. Users can explore the various ATLAS maps to find out more about the seven policy areas and how states fared on specific indicators. The initial map displays states overall birth through third grade ranking as displayed on the left-hand side. An explanation of the indicator is below. Here's what it is. What is the state's overall birth through third grade ranking? Users can see the pink states are walking, purple states are toddling, and blue states are crawling in their progress. To view which states are in each category, select the check mark next to the rating. For instance, to view only the crawling states, remove the check marks from toddling and walking. The map can be dragged using the cursor and zoomed in and out to view various regions or states. Users can click on states to view their individual profiles. For instance, by selecting Arkansas, users can see a narrative of how the state fares in each policy area. To view maps of specific policy areas and indicators, select the ellipses next to the overall birth through third grade ranking. This brings up a comprehensive list of all indicators organized by policy area. The policy areas are organized in order of how heavy they were rated in the rankings, starting with educators, which was worth the most points, and ending with third grade reading, which is worth the least. To learn more about why we weighted categories this way, the research behind these policy areas and why we included certain indicators, select the plus sign next to the category. Using educators as an example, here users can learn more about the research in forming this policy area, and in each section, there are two links, one listing the specific indicators and data sources used, and one to view the full report with citations. Users can minimize this explanation by selecting the minus sign. To view maps of specific indicators, users must select an indicator. We will scroll down and use pre-K as an example. Under the pre-K heading, there are numerous state-level indicators, including the percentage of four-year-olds served in each state. Users can select this indicator and then view the map by clicking the X in the right hand corner. The ellipses can be used to return back to the list of indicators and access the other maps. If users wish to download the data, they can select the icon in the upper right hand corner. Atlas will be updated periodically to portray policy changes. Users can direct questions to early and elementary ed at newamerica.org.