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New Federal Effort is a Huge Step Forward for Early Education
The $500 million, Race to the Top -Early Learning Challenge represents a "bold, significant, innovative effort" to support the development of an early-learning system for children from birth to age five, writes Kagan, the Virginia and Leonard Marx professor of early childhood and family policy at Teachers College and co-director of the National Center for Children and Families, in an opinion piece in Education Week.
The $500 million, Race to the Top -Early Learning Challenge represents a "bold, significant, innovative effort" to support the development of an early-learning system for children from birth to age five, writes Kagan, the Virginia and Leonard Marx professor of early childhood and family policy at Teachers College and co-director of the National Center for Children and Families, in an opinion piece in Education Week.
LINK: Moving the Agenda on the Early Learning Challenge, or download the article.
Published Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011