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• An End-of-Year Treat: 2009 Highlights from Early Ed Watch

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Lisa Guernsey December 23, 2009 Well be closed for the holidays, but before we start pouring the egg nog, we couldnt resist the chance to highlight some of the posts weve run in the past ...
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• Does Your Child Care Center Provide Paid Sick Days?

  
  Washington Policy Watch — Authority: 118
  By Karen Pesapane, National Partnership for Women and FamiliesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keeps updating its guidelines to help child care and early childhood programs – - and all of us – - respond to influenza during the 2009-2010 flu season.Guidelines for providers include separating children ...
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• The littlest victims: A different schedule for disabled kids?

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 419
  EarlyStories could not help but be struck by the photo of three special needs children in wheelchairs in the New York Daily News, in an excellent article that described how some disabled children are forced to leave school well before the end of the day. The story found that across the city, these children are ...
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• Report on Pa.’s Pre-K Counts Shows Importance of Quality

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Maggie Severns December 18, 2009  Pennsyvlania’s Pre-K Counts program has prevented delays in children’s cognitive development, reduced rates of behavior problems, and has helped 80 ...
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• Long-haired Texas tyke isolated in strict pre-k class

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 419
  hair , according to articles in the Dallas Morning News. Taylor Pugh is in Big Trouble for making an end run around the dress code rules at Floyd Elementary School in Mesquite Texas , the kind of place where students "cant go to class out of dress code, according to the associate superintendent. Its also the ...
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• FY10 Funding for Federal Early Ed Programs

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Sara Mead December 15, 2009 Fiscal year 2010 started in October, but Congress is only now wrapping up its work on the FY2010 appropriations bills that fund federal government activities ...
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• Video Series: How to Use Media As Tool for Teaching Literacy

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Lisa Guernsey December 14, 2009 Research continues to show how important it is for children to be reading proficiently by third grade. And yet videos, online games and other electronic ...
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• Newcomer poses hard questions about Texas Pre-K

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 419
  EarlyStories welcomes new websites, collaborations and any efforts by journalists to understand the complicated landscape of early childhood education in the U.S. The area gets little media attention, so it was nice to see the brand new Texas Tribune taking on the issue in Texas, with this promising start:"The ...
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• Education Reform Starts Early

  
  NewAmerica.net — Authority: 109
  White Paper Lessons from New Jersey’s PreK-3rd Reform Efforts December 11, 2009 December, 2009 ...
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• In New Jersey, Education Reform Starts Early

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Sara Mead December 11, 2009 A report released today by the New America Foundation finds that New Jersey has made tremendous strides in improving disadvantaged childrens access to ...
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• Washington’s 2010 budget leaves state morally bankrupt

  
  Washington Policy Watch — Authority: 118
  The Governor’s 2010 supplemental budget, released today, is disastrous for Washington’s children. Among millions of dollars worth of cuts to every kind of basic service, the cuts to early learning and K-12 education are especially tragic. Here’s why.First off, the Governor’s budget completely eliminates the ...
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• Trying to Break Down the Walls Between HHS and the Dept of Ed

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Lisa Guernsey December 8, 2009 It is no secret that government has a way of creating isolated bureaucracies that never talk to each other or, worse, promulgate policies that make it ...
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• Head Start or healthy start? Veggies,workouts for toddlers

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 419
  Head Start, which doesnt get a lot of media attention, is back in the news for offering preschool children in its program a chance to establish healthy eating habits. The federally funded program is now pushing fresh fruits and vegetables, along with low-fat milk,and making sure children spend time playing, according ...
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• NY Times: Charter schools are the new chic?

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 419
  EarlyStories found it fascinating to read the New York Times style piece Sunday, entitled, "Scholarly Investments. First thought: What on earth is a story about charter schools doing on the style page? The answer of course, can be seen in the picture of Ravenel Boykin Curry IV, who helped found two Girls ...
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• Urging Solutions on Chronic Absence in Elementary Schools

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Lisa Guernsey December 4, 2009 Earlier this week, an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times made a strong argument about how to address a hidden but real problem in elementary ...
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• Pre-school bargains? Not in San Francisco

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 419
  call for more programs that charge $10,000 or less. It seems that residents of the city by the sea are taking out second mortgages in some cases to afford preschool feels of between $12,000 and $20,000. Those prices are daunting, of course, but anyone familiar with the insanity of preschool in Manhattan might ...
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• Ignoring Early Education

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Sara Mead December 2, 2009 Today, the Brookings Institution released a new report on media coverage of education . The report’s title— Invisible: 1.4 Percent is Not Enough —pretty ...
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• Why Ask Why? New Research Looks at Childrens Questions

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Maggie Severns December 1, 2009 At some point, most people who spend time around young children encounter a youngster who likes to play the “Why?” game. For those who are not familiar ...
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• Brookings: Where has all the education journalism gone?

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 419
  report from the Brookings Institution. The report, entitled: "Invisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not Enough, finds scant coverage of critical issues like teaching, learning and curriculum; most stories "dealt with budget problems, school crime and the H1N! flu outbreak, according to the report, ...
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• The Outcry Over Preschool Test-Prep and Gifted Kindergartens

  
  Early Education Initiative: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Lisa Guernsey December 1, 2009 The story appeared 10 days ago on the front page of The New York Times , but judging from the flood of online comments and the letters to the editor ...
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