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Releases provides me adequate information about the latest issues and trends in
regards to early childhood education.
The article 10-Year National Preschool Study Finds Decreased Support for
Quality and Greater Disparities in Access posted on August 14, 2013 goes right
in line with this week’s discussions.
However it gives it a different spend.
It’s actually referencing the decline in funding from the government due
mainly because of the recession.
The article talks
mainly about how the burden for early childhood programs now lays on the state. The unintended consequence of that is that
now educational opportunities are not going to be equal nationally. By moving the power to the states means that
some children will receive a better education, which means that now every child
will not have the same competing chance when they get older. These cuts do not go in line with what economists,
neuroscientists, or politicians support for the early childhood field.
Like most
policymaking, these government cuts were put in place based on a particular
understanding of what returns public dollars would yield in the educational
system. Yet it seems that educational policy is not in sync with new
research-based understandings of child learning. For us to have a more
effective and holistic approach to educational policy, we need to better
understand the role that early childhood education plays in the overall
learning of a child. (Nobleza, 2013)
It’s amazing about
the amount of information that is available on this site. It focuses on trends that are evident in
individual states as well as nationally.
It touches on topics centered on early childhood development such as
poverty, politics, and government cuts.
References
Nobleza, M. (2013). A
Creativity-Focused Agenda for Early Childhood Education Policymaking.
Retrieved from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-nobleza/a-creativity-focused-agenda_b_3992121.html
National Institute for Early Education Research, (2013). 10-Year National Preschool Study Finds
Decreased Support for Quality and
Greater Disparities in Access. Retrieved
from
http://nieer.org/news-events/news-releases/10-year-national-preschool-study-finds-decreased-support-quality-and
How sad that the focus has shifted to the state level with obviously less funding than what the federal level could provide. The recession has hit many areas hard, but we will always have a future in children. I believe this is the future we need to invest in.
ReplyDeleteThank you Sherry, for a great summary of the NIEER e-newsletter article. I would like to see federal/state partnerships in the hope that they could lead to more focused funding. You also summed up the value of the website as an excellent resource for early childhood practitioners. I enjoyed reading your post.
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Sherry, this is a great resource for federal and state programs. I will subscribe with this website because I work for the federal program of the Early Head Start. This is a great post.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great resource thank you for sharing it. I will definitly continue to look at this website.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how the federal and state governments are out of sync with what the educational system truly needs: funding. It seems they think creating problems to help with the problems that arise is better than stopping the problems by training the parents and teaching the children at a young age. The website you shared does have some truly wonderful articles and I will continue to visit this site again and again.
ReplyDeleteThis website has a lot of information. Thank you for sharing the information that you learned and your thoughts.
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