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Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

Category: Early Education

Providing children with the experiences they need to succeed in school before starting kindergarten is critical. But what should those experiences be? Who should pay for them? As parents, school leaders and policymakers struggle to answer these and other questions, we cover what’s working, and what’s not, in early education.

Facing declines in reading proficiency, rural libraries step in

by Jackie Mader January 21, 2021January 21, 2021

Three years ago, Darlene Thomas-Burroughs, branch manager of the Hardeeville Library in the rural town of Hardeeville, South Carolina, heard about a new way that library employees could help kids boost their reading scores. Intrigued, she signed up for the seven-month program, offered by Partners for Education at Berea College and the federal Promise Zone […]

OPINION: The Biden administration has a real chance to boost early childhood education

by Nonie Lesaux, Stephanie Jones and Emily Wiklund Hayhurst January 19, 2021January 20, 2021

OPINION: To solve the workforce crisis, America has to invest in child care

by Rick Snyder January 12, 2021January 13, 2021

OPINION: How the gig economy puts children’s development at risk and what we can do about it

by Dana Suskind January 11, 2021January 6, 2021

COLUMN: As Betsy DeVos steps down, critics hope it is time to put the public back in public education

by Liz Willen January 8, 2021January 11, 2021

Making ‘Paw Patrol’ educational

by Jackie Mader January 7, 2021January 7, 2021

She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

by Liz Willen December 24, 2020December 28, 2020

As Harlem Children’s Zone moves to export its model nationwide, Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods offer cautionary tales

by Amadou Diallo December 11, 2020December 21, 2020

As the pandemic trudges on, what to say to our kids

by Jackie Mader December 10, 2020December 9, 2020

OPINION: The pandemic is no excuse to lose focus on kindergarten readiness

by Kirsten Baesler December 9, 2020December 7, 2020

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