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Constance Kamii: A Review of the Common Core Math Standards for K-3
Defending the Early Years (DEY), an advocacy group for young children, has published an excellent critique of K-3 Common Core math standards by Dr. Constance Kamii, a scholar of early childhood...
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Lyndsey Layton: Arne Duncan Will Stay On Until the Last Buzzer
Lyndsey Layton of the Washington Post has written a sympathetic article about Arne Duncan and the waning of his powers as Secretary of Education. He is a nice guy. He is a close friend of the...
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Early Childhood Educator Feels the Pain of Income Inequality
In a brief discussion of income inequality on the blog, I pointed out that it was unfair that a handful of people live in luxury while large numbers of people worry about paying their rent. It is not...
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Amy Moore: If State Won’t Fund Schools, At Least Let Us Teach
Amy Moore has a simple proposal for the governor and legislature of Iowa: If you won’t fund our state’s public schools adequately, then let us have the freedom to teach. Moore teaches fifth grade and...
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Susan Ochshorn: Monetizing the Vocabulary Gap
Susan Ochshorn of The ECE Policy Wirks notes an insidious trend: entrepreneurs have discovered Hart and Risley’s vocabulary gap between children who live in poverty and those who live in professional...
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Nancy Carlsson-Paige on Testing and Play
Nancy Carlsson-Paige, professor emerita at Lesley College and eminent defender of childhood, recently was honored with the Deborah Meier award by Fairtest. She is a founding member of Defending the...
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New Jersey Dems Want Social Impact Bonds to Reduce Special Education, Reward...
New Jersey Democrat Theresa Ruiz, chair of the Senate Education Committee, has a truly terrible idea. She wants to introduce “social impact bonds” that would pay off investors to reduce special...
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Amy Moore: If State Won’t Fund Schools, At Least Let Us Teach
Amy Moore has a simple proposal for the governor and legislature of Iowa: If you won’t fund our state’s public schools adequately, then let us have the freedom to teach. Moore teaches fifth grade and...
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Susan Ochshorn: Monetizing the Vocabulary Gap
Susan Ochshorn of The ECE Policy Wirks notes an insidious trend: entrepreneurs have discovered Hart and Risley’s vocabulary gap between children who live in poverty and those who live in professional...
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Nancy Carlsson-Paige on Testing and Play
Nancy Carlsson-Paige, professor emerita at Lesley College and eminent defender of childhood, recently was honored with the Deborah Meier award by Fairtest. She is a founding member of Defending the...
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New Jersey Dems Want Social Impact Bonds to Reduce Special Education, Reward...
New Jersey Democrat Theresa Ruiz, chair of the Senate Education Committee, has a truly terrible idea. She wants to introduce “social impact bonds” that would pay off investors to reduce special...
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Eva Moskowitz Cancels Pre-K Program with City Rather than Accept Regulation
Eva Moskowitz agreed to open a pre-K program on behalf of the City of New York. But she refused to sign the contract that other charter schools (and all public schools and facilities) agreed to sign....
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Susan Ochshorn: Please, Mr. Gates, Help the Children!
Reactions to the mea culpa of Sue Desmond-Hellman, the CEO of the Gates Foundation, continue to roll in. Sue D-H admitted that “mistakes had been made” in the education arena and promised to listen to...
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Susan Ochshorn: Some Thoughts for the Democratic Platform
Susan Ochshorn of ECE Policy Works offers these thoughts for the Democratic platform: 1) Children are rarely mentioned in this document. They are our precious “human capital,” the future of our nation...
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John Thompson: What If Reformers Had Paid Attention to Research-Based...
Teacher and historian John Thompson writes here about the reflection that seems to be occurring among “reformers” as they realize that their test-and-punish reforms produce limited gains and limited...
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Dana Goldstein: Bill de Blasio’s Fight for Universal Pre-Kindergarten
Dana Goldstein writes here about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign to establish a universal program of free, public pre-kindergarten, equally available to the poor, the middle-class, and...
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A Member of the State Board in Ohio Resigns, with Good Advice for His Colleagues
A. J. Wagner formally resigned as a member of the Ohio State Board of Education, due to family circumstances. He wrote this letter of advice to his colleagues. He said that he “joined the Board...
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The Biggest Problem in Early Childhood Education Today Is….
In this post, which appeared on Valerie Strauss’s “Answer Sheet” blog, Nancy Carlsson-Paige explains that the biggest problem in early childhood education today is the erosion of time for play....
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Susan Ochshorn: Listen to the Voices of Teachers of Early Childhood Classes
Susan Ochshorn of the ECE Policy Works writes here about the marginalization of those who teach early childhood. Governor Chris Christie defamed them as “babysitters.” No one asked for their expertise...
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California Teachers Form Statewide Alliance to Fight for Real School Reform
Teachers organizations from across the state of California have formed an alliance to fight for genuine School reform. CALIFORNIA: 8 Teacher Union Locals Unite Against the Trump/DeVos Agenda, Fight for...
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