- Jenny Portillo-Nacu
What Is Playful Learning and Why Does It Matter? Research shows that play is critical to children’s development and learning, especially throughout their early childhood years. Unfortunately, play has gradually been pushed out of classrooms to make time for more teacher-directed learning experiences. Playful learning is often described as having...
- David Jacobson
We are aware that building a coherent system is more time consuming and less flashy than just adding more slots or more dollars to an existing system. But we have an opportunity to … build...
- David Jacobson
Arne Duncan speaking to the Early Learning Challenge and Preschool Development Grant grantees: “We need to get the movement for high-quality early childhood education to a tipping point.”
...- David Jacobson
In Washington, DC for a meeting with Preschool Development Grant and Early Learning Challenge grantees. Jim Lesko of AEM discusses the rationale for Birth–3rd approaches: Eliminates artificial distinction between early childhood and early elementary education....
- David Jacobson
A great article about how New Bedford, MA has come together to support a focused Birth–3rd strategy. Thanks to Titus DosRemedios and Strategies for Children for laying it out so clearly and compellingly (and for...
- David Jacobson
… Skills like cooperation, empathy and flexibility have become increasingly vital in modern-day work. Occupations that require strong social skills have grown much more than others since 1980, according to new research. And the only...
- David Jacobson
Education Week’s Early Years blog has a helpful round-up of a wide range of media coverage of the Tennessee preschool study. A few choice excerpts: Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman, whose work on the return...