I recently came across a slightly old, but hardly dated article in Forbes that highlighted 14 “Revolutionary Educators,” key thought leaders who have taken on the achievement gap between young minority children and their white peers.
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July 26, 2010 5:31 pm | 
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Greetings from Mumbai, India, where I was the keynote speaker at India’s first global conference on early childhood education, hosted by EducationWorld Magazine. At this conference, I had the opportunity to meet and address over 300 owners, teachers, and journalists with a special interest in early childhood education, which is just starting to develop as a formal part of the education delivery system in India.
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Uncategorized | Elanna | July 19, 2010 3:10 pm | Comments (0)
There are probably very few parents in the country who haven’t heard of the PTA. PTA chapters can be found in over 25,000 local communities, in all 50 states, in U.S. schools on military installations in Europe and the Pacific, and most likely somewhere very close to you.
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Uncategorized | Elanna | July 12, 2010 10:20 am | Comments (0)
It is hard to believe that Sesame Street has been around for over 40 years. As a teenager I remember when it first aired, and how it changed the way television was viewed, from primarily a way to entertain young children to a vehicle to help young children, particularly from vulnerable backgrounds, improve their literacy skills and school readiness.
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Uncategorized | Elanna | July 6, 2010 1:32 pm | Comments (1)
The May 2010 issue of the Educational Researcher journal of the American Educational Research Association was a special issue on the National Early Literacy Panel (NELP) Report, which was released in January 2009. This issue summarizes the landmark report and provides commentary from several well known authors, some of whom point out limitations of the reports methodology and interpretation of the data.
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Uncategorized | Elanna | June 29, 2010 1:39 pm | Comments (1)
Berry Brazelton. Except for Dr. Spock, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton is probably the closest thing to a household name in infant care.
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Uncategorized | Elanna | June 21, 2010 11:47 am | Comments (0)
It’s funny, looking back, that the idea of a childcare company, or even just childcare in general, never made much sense to me when I was younger. “What’s so important about childcare?” I used to think. “How is it that something as big as a company can manage something as small as (dare I say it) babysitting?” I had no idea, and never did I once think that my first professional endeavor after graduating high school would be with a childcare organization.
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Uncategorized | Elanna | June 14, 2010 11:13 am | Comments (1)
We recently conducted a national survey of 500 students, aged 13-17, about their attitudes toward school and learning. Born in the mid 1990s, they are the “iGeneration,” a whole new breed of students who have never known a world without the Internet and on-demand access to content, just like Generation X never knew a world without a TV or telephone.
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Uncategorized | Elanna | June 7, 2010 1:58 pm | Comments (0)
The most recent issue of Child Development [attached] featured an illuminating study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD) that examined the impact of non-relative child care for children from birth to 4 ½ years of age on children’s academic and social functioning at age 15.
Read More »Instead of thinking about children’s issues in general last week, I was busy celebrating a very personal occasion, the graduation of my older son from college from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
I will refrain from boring you with the gushing of parental pride or the spew of emotions that comes with the realization of how quickly my son has grown and how he is moving on to the next chapter in his life, adulthood.
Tags: education policy, graduation, university of pennsylvania
Uncategorized | Elanna | May 24, 2010 5:08 pm | Comments (0)
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