Raising America
A new PBS documentary series, The Raising of America will make the case for universal preschool and tax-funded day care for infants and toddlers, reports EdSource Today, which interviews co-producers...
View ArticlePreschool: We don’t know what works
Preschool is not a no-brainer, write University of Virginia professors Daniel T. Willingham and David W. Grissmer in a New York Times commentary. Research is murky on how to design preschool programs...
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Instead of universal preschool …
Federal early childhood programs are “incoherent” and “largely ineffective,” Russ Whitehurst, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, told the House Committee on...
View ArticleShakira will tweet on early ed
As part of the White House Summit on Early Education, Shakira and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be tweeting on early education this morning, starting at 10 am EST. Shakira, a native of...
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Early childhood ed: Can we all play nicely?
To get beyond the education wars, reformers should focus on early childhood education, advises New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. He thinks the reform movement has “peaked,” leaving “bruised”...
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