For many pregnant women in America, prenatal care is not accessible or affordable. ~Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village (p.75) Helping children become great learners starts early, and America has much to learn if it really wants to invest in the next generation. Many other countries have already learned these lessons. In her 1992 […]
Universal Preschool Cookie-Cutter Pressure: Head Start’s Troubling Framework
There is no such thing as a “developmentally appropriate curriculum” for three- and four-year-olds. Common sense should tell us that. ~Dr. Peter Gray, The Case Against Preschool in Psychology Today. Universal preschool might better be called daycare, a program for young children to socialize, have free play, and experience lovely learning-rich experiences before school. It […]
Head Start and the Hunger Games
CNN Money reported that 57,000 children will lose out on Head Start due to the Sequester and $85 billion in federal budget cuts. Head Start staffers, some who are parents of the children, will see pay cuts or be fired. http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/19/news/economy/headstart-funding-cuts/ One would think preschool for the poor would be improving. But maybe when […]