Weekly Early Childhood Education News Report
May 23-27, 2016
Presidential Candidates
- Could a President Hillary Clinton Change Child Care As We Know it?
Education Week - Advisers to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Debate Education Policy
Education Week
National News
- Thirty Million Reasons Why PNC Foundation is Working to Close the Vocabulary Gap
Inside Philanthropy - To Help Kids Thrive, Coach Their Parents
The New York Times - ‘Helping Children Succeed’ Starts At Birth; A Case For The Power Of Nurture
NPR - How Child Care Made Humans Smart
TIME - Without More Even Investment, Universal Pre-K Won’t Be Universal
The Nation - Abecedarian vs Africadarian in Early Childhood Development
The Huffington Post - Helping Poor Kids Get Grit. Part 1: The Importance of Grit.
The Huffington Post - Helping Poor Kids Get Grit. Part 2: Building Grit – Early Childhood and Beyond.
The Huffington Post - Plan points way from poverty to prosperity
Bellingham Herald Online - To Teach Kids To Read And Write, Sometimes You Have To Get Creative
NPR/National Public Radio
Alabama
Arizona
- Valdez: Why taxpayers should pay for your child care
The Arizona Republic
California
- Bringing brain development 101 to kids who miss preschool
KPCC-FM - California is way behind on child care and it’s time to ante up
Sacramento Bee - Assembly Democrats Push For Increased Funding For Child Care, Welfare
Capital Public Radio – Online - Close to Home: Why we need to expand access to early childhood education
The Press Democrat
Colorado
- DU receives $3.2 million gift from former kindergarten teacher
The Denver Business Journal Online
Florida
- Day care dilemma: Experts worry cost, demand for quality too much of a strain on working families
The Florida Times-Union - Senate candidates stake out a range of positions on education issues
POLITICO States
Idaho
- Idaho Still Lacks State-Funded Preschool
Magic Valley Overtime
Iowa
- Iowa’s literacy gap, by the numbers
Des Moines Register - Preschool – The solution to black achievement gap?
Des Moines Register - Stand up for regulated family child care
Des Moines Register
Louisiana
- New Orleans middle-class parents want public pre-k, but there’s no room
The Times-Picayune
Maryland
- How a preschool test can endanger Head Start program funding
The Washington Post
Michigan
- Money’s not enough: The unconventional way Detroit is filling Head Start classrooms
Detroit Free Press - When classrooms become all work and no play, kids lose valuable learning experiences
Michigan Radio – Online
Missouri
- Joplin Recovery Fund awards last of $6.1 million in grants
Columbia Missourian Online
New Mexico
- New Mexico preschool teachers make less than dog walkers
nmpolitics.net
New York
- How one poor Brooklyn preschool is competing with the best
The Christian Science Monitor Online - Quality of pre-K varies in New York, data shows
The Hechinger Report
Ohio
- Head Start teachers are on the front lines of fighting region’s childhood poverty crisis
WCPO-TV - Toddlers discover that learning rocks
Crain’s Cleveland Business Online - Cincinnati Public Schools to seek $48 million yearly levy hike
WCPO-TV
Pennsylvania
- City Council Members Join Education Activists In Push For Affordable Pre-K
WESA-FM - Philadelphia mayor looks to fund pre-K with controversial soda tax — by the ounce
PBS NewsHour
Texas
- Texas needs universal pre-K access
San Antonio Express-News
Vermont
Washington
- We expel preschool kids three times as often as K-12 students. Here’s how to change that.
The Seattle Times
Washington, D.C.