Interest in children's success as readers has existed for a long time. With growing attention to our nation's global competitiveness, school success with math and science is joining reading as important topic areas for children's early learning. As a result, new research is exploring predictors of school success with math and science as well as for reading. Towards this end, researchers from the National Center for Research in Early Childhood Education (NCRECE) reexamined longitudinal data from a ground-breaking study that identified kindergarten readiness factors. Their findings, which are presented in two related studies, confirm the value of a broad-based, early childhood education (ECE) curricula that incorporate multiple content areas and facilitates children's overall development.