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Category Archives: Early childhood program design issues
Early childhood programs and parental responsibility
My local newspaper, the Kalamazoo Gazette, recently had an interesting interview with the Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, Jase Bolger. According to reporter Julie Mack, [Speaker Bolger] also expressed reluctance about spending more tax dollars on social programs … Continue reading
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Designing better funding for early childhood programs
Steve Barnett and Jason Hustedt have a new issue brief for the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), on financing early learning programs. This issue brief analyzes many aspects of the financing of early learning programs. But I want … Continue reading
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How difficult is “high-quality” preschool?
Well-known blogger Matt Yglesias had a post on preschool recently. In this post, Yglesias argued that implementing preschool programs at a large scale, at high-quality, is difficult. Yglesias’s argument is overstated. The research suggests that most states and local governments … Continue reading
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Teacher pay in early childhood education
Some readers have brought to my attention a recent study of how typical annual earnings vary with college major. This study, by Anthony Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, and Michelle Melton at Georgetown University, relies on 2009 data from the American Community … Continue reading
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Comments on Michigan’s just enacted budget
The State of Michigan has just passed its 2011-2012 budget. The Early Childhood Investment Corporation of Michigan has provided some news coverage of the implications of this budget for early childhood program. As the article’s lead says, the budget is … Continue reading
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More on Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge
Sara Mead, in her blog at Education Week, has some additional useful comments on the $500 million early learning competitive grant program announced by the federal government yesterday. To elaborate on my comments yesterday, $500 million is a great deal … Continue reading
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Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge
The U.S. Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services announced yesterday a $500 million competitive grant program for state plans for early learning. The details will be released later this summer, with states then having 6 to … Continue reading
The potential for “peeksee” financing of pre-k programs
I have been involved with some discussions of potential new sources of financing early childhood programs. These discussions have been coordinated by the aptly-named “Early Childhood Finance Innovations” Working Group. This Working Group has been convened by the Kauffman Foundation, … Continue reading
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Coordinating early care and learning
I received a request for my comment on Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s recent proposal to consolidate early childhood programs in one office. (This request came in response to a recent post of mine, in which I asked readers to suggest … Continue reading
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Top ten points of my book
A reader requested my summary of the “Top Ten” points of my book. Unfortunately, for reasons of logic, I think I need to do this list in order from 1 to 10 rather than in David Letterman’s reverse order. I’ve … Continue reading
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