Leonie Haimson to Mayor de Blasio: Cancel the Tests for Gifted and Talented Programs NOW!
Parent advocate Leonie Haimson has written an urgent plea to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza. They acknowledge that the...
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St. Louis: Privatizers and Assorted Billionaires Pick Over Bones of Public School System
Tracee Miller, a member of the St. Louis Board of Education, writes that she was shocked and dismayed to discover that a proposal to raise...
Sound Advice for Parents of Young Children
Denisha Jones, an expert in early childhood education and a lawyer (and a member of the board of the Betwork for Public Education) has prepared...
Distance Learning is Horrible for Kindergarten Students
A reader with the anonymous sobriquet “Kindergarten Interlude” writes: For my kindergartners distance-learning was never fun. And Lord knows for me it is not just...
A Conversation about the Pandemic and Early Childhood Education
Every Wednesday at 7:40 pm EST, the Network for Public Education has hosted a conversation about education. All the conversations are archived here. In the...
Sing “Happy Birthday” to the Woman Who Wrote the Song
Today is the birthday of Patty Smith Hill, who wrote “Happy Birthday to You.” I recall that she was a leading advocate for early childhood...
SomeDAM Poet: College Ready in Kindergarten
When Arne Duncan was Secretary of Education, he touted the idea that every student should be college ready. There has been considerable debate about which...
Economic Policy Institute: How Much Would It Cost to Supply High-Quality Early Childhood Education?
The Economic Policy Institute has created an interactive state-by-state analysis of the cost of high-quality early childhood education. At present, most ECE workers/teachers are grossly...
Nancy Bailey on The War Against Little Children
Nancy Bailey describes here the determined effort by policymakers to stamp out play and childhood, all in the name of teaching reading long before...
Why Standardized Tests Are Worthless for Evaluating Teachers and Students
This is a wonderful article that appeared in Education Week, written by Margaret Pastor, a veteran educator in Maryland. When I started reading, I...