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Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice |
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Where Early Childhood Research, Policy, and Practice Intersect |
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High-quality early care and education (ECE) is vital to school readiness, improved academic performance, higher school completion rates, and greater earning power. ECE PolicyWorks is a consulting firm that links
early childhood research, policy, and practice, laying the foundation for healthy, successful, productive citizens. |
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Testing 1,2,3: Accountability Run Amok |
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ECE Policy Matters—"April is child abuse
prevention month," proclaims Fritzwire, a no-nonsense e-bulletin
that arrives daily with policy-related updates from the nation's
capitol. You wouldn't know it here in New York City. Recently, I
listened to one of the many sad stories circulating around the precincts
of the public schools, whose students from third through eighth grade
have been busy filling in bubbles on the English Language Arts exams.
One parent told me how her high-achieving, logical first child was
reduced to tears upon returning to his Brooklyn school after spring
break to what has become a torturous rite of passage . . .
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Sexual Politics and Family Values: Let's Get it
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Huffington Post—From the Iowa caucuses to the
Super Tuesday primaries, this campaign season has been a horror for
women and children, bookended by Rick Santorum's rant against early
childhood education and Rush Limbaugh's recent atrocity. Policies that
support women and their families, and the future citizens they spawn, are
sorely lacking in the United States. It's high time that the U.S. joined
the community of peer nations that are nurturing and sustaining the most
precious resource we have: human capital . . .
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Paid Family Leave: Strengthening Families and Our
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Susan Ochshorn is co-author of Paid Family Leave:
Strengthening Families and Our Future with Curtis Skinner, Director of
Family Economic Security at the National Center for Children in Poverty,
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University (April) . . .
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Bammy Awards |
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The nominating and voting period for the
Educator’s Voice Award of 2012, to honor excellence in education,
has now ended. Council of Peers member Susan Ochshorn, nominated in the
category of Education Commentator/Blogger, nominated Anna
Allanbrook, David Kirp, Anne Mitchell, Terri Rose, and Tammy Dunn. Stay
tuned for announcement of winners in June, and the Bammy Award ceremony,
at the Arena Stage, in DC, in September . . .
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