Posted by Susan Ochshorn, on July 11th, 2011
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 ...]
Posted by Susan Ochshorn, on June 9th, 2011
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 ...]
Posted by Susan Ochshorn, on May 28th, 2011
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 ...]