Focusing on Latino Parents’ Strengths
It can be easy to focus on what students from these backgrounds lack, rather than what they bring to the table.
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Gauging Public Support for Education Spending
Americans overwhelmingly want us to do more in early childhood.
Introducing ‘Seeding Reading’
Today’s children are surrounded by digital media of all kinds. How will they ever learn to read?
Child Care as an Intergenerational Solution to Poverty
Increased access to child care is an especially promising anti-poverty policy because it is intergenerational.
Getting the Common Core Political Handicapping Right
Lots of coverage of the Common Core State Standards mentions polling showing that the standards' opponents are only a minority of Americans.
Pediatricians Use Video Tools to Promote Early Literacy
The pediatrician’s office is becoming a new player in helping children learn foundational skills for communication.
White House Summit on Working Families
It’s increasingly difficult for working parents in the United States to do all the things they’re “supposed to do.”
Embattled AZ Schools Chief Was Major Opponent of Full-Day Kindergarten
Huppenthal was a central figure in our story of full-day kindergarten in Arizona.
Making the Common Core Work for Latino Students
As exhausting as they can be, today’s children are a critical economic resource.
What Are School Enrollment Boundaries For?
How the District's education politics remain fundamentally driven by the politics of privilege, class, and race.
Teacher Prep Review Paints Grim Picture, but with Possible Silver Lining
NCTQ’s inaugural 2013 Review was met with outcry and criticism from many teacher education programs.
Early Vocabulary Development and the Common Core
The early education community sometimes flirts too closely with that danger.
Why We Can’t Forget the Early Grades
More focus is sorely needed on improving children's transition from pre-K into elementary school.
How Brilliant Are Promise Neighborhoods?
Are Promise Neighborhoods the best we can do in the context of a poorly-organized system?
Summer Learning: Literally Meeting Children Where They Are
Just because summer vacation usually means a break from class time, it does not also mean a break from learning.