Early Childhood at the Table: A Forum on Social Mobility

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 ...]


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Tech 2.0: Getting it Right

Everybody’s talkin’ technology, indeed. My post a couple of weeks ago unleashed a lively discussion in the LinkedIn Early Childhood Education, Child Care, and CCR&R Professionals Forum (What a mouthful. It’s a wonder that this field develops any cohesive identity!).
Here were the questions I posed: How is the use of “screen time” by adults affecting [... click post title to read more ...]


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Education Reform: NY-Style

This week, I spent three hours at a public hearing of New York State’s Education Reform Commission, hosted by the Bank Street College of Education. I listened, along with a respectable, if not overflowing, audience—this was smack in the middle of the work day—to testimony that covered the waterfront: from system structure, to teacher quality, [... click post title to read more ...]


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