ECE Weather Report: Sunny, with Threat of Thunderstorms

The Summer Solstice ushered in a spate of clear, bright June days, promising infinite possibility and a more leisurely pace.  Nice fantasy.  School may be a distant memory for the nation’s students, but the wheels of ECE policymaking keep spinning, with legislators, agency and nonprofit heads, education reformers and historians, advocates, bloggers, state advisory councils, [... click post title to read more ...]


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Child Care: The First Frontier in the War on Obesity

This past week, at a bilingual child care center in Washington, Michelle Obama launched Let’s Move! Child Care, the latest phase of a national campaign to combat obesity.  Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within  A Generation,  a report released last year by a Task Force on the subject, targeted  the early years, from prenatal [... click post title to read more ...]


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Early Learning, Center Stage

I’m feeling a bit bipolar at the moment.  Wasn’t it just yesterday that I was lamenting the ugly tenor of the education reform debate, highlighting the scapegoating of parents?  And today, I’m coming down from the high of watching Arne Duncan and Kathleen Sebelius jointly announce $500 million worth of funding for the Race to [... click post title to read more ...]


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