Early childhood is not a hot topic in the nation’s intellectual salons.  Which makes the Boston Review’s “New Democracy Forum” on promoting social mobility nothing short of a revelation.  Since early fall, I’ve been lugging around the magazine, whose cover is graced by an adorable infant and a cover line that asks: “IS THIS [... click post title to read more ...]

I spend a lot of my waking hours thinking about how we can inject ECE into the national conversation.  So when young kids pop their downy heads into the mainstream, and early child development and poverty go viral, my day is made.
Last week, after my regular rant at Huffington Post, “Education Is the Economy, Stupid,” [... click post title to read more ...]

Sargent Shriver, the architect of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, died in mid-January.  As I read his obituary, I was overcome by a wave of nostalgia for a storied age of U.S. social policy.
Here’s a snapshot of that period:  In 1963, the same year that Martin Luther King told the nation of his “dream,” an [... click post title to read more ...]