Educare: On the Fault Lines of System-Building

On September 25, the day after Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott announced that Educare was coming to NYC, I posted a piece hailing the birth-to-five program’s arrival in Brownsville, one of Brooklyn’s most under-served neighborhoods.  I still celebrate this event.  But I’ve been having some conversations that I wanted to share [... click post title to read more ...]

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Welcome to the Big Apple, Educare

At long last, NYC is getting on the bandwagon, bringing education reform right down to the cradle.  Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Wolcott announced that they were expecting.  The baby, an Educare school, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, will arrive next year.
It’s about time.

Since 2000, when the Ounce of Prevention [... click post title to read more ...]

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New York ECE: On the Record and Racing to the Top

Hail, Nicholas Kristof, for moving the “national newspaper of record” toward our team.  It’s about time.  “Occupy the Classroom,”  his paean to early childhood education is, as I write, number six on the New York Times “Most Emailed” list.    How clever of him to transpose the country’s fixation on Wall Street and income inequality into a [... click post title to read more ...]

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