- Jenny Portillo-Nacu
Home-based childcare programs are an important part of the mixed-delivery early childhood education system. Outside of parental care, home-based, also known as family childcare, is the most commonly used primary care arrangement. Partnering with home-based childcare professionals is a critical component of supporting kindergarten readiness for all children. The River...
- David Jacobson
From the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute: Long-term Health Benefits for FPG’s Abecedarian Kids With substantial implications for health care and prevention policy, FPG is reporting today that children who received high-quality early care...
- David Jacobson
The accident of birth is a principal source of inequality in America today. American society is dividing into skilled and unskilled, and the roots of this division lie in early childhood experiences. Kids born into...
- David Jacobson
Teaching Children to Calm Themselves, a most-emailed article from the New York Times. Finland’s Approach to Child Care and Preschool Programs, a post from Strategies for Children’s Eye on Early Education. The more exemplars we...
- David Jacobson
On a recent visit to the Paige Academy preschool in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, a group of students sit clustered on the rug in front of teacher Sister Paige.[1] Sister Paige leads the students...
- David Jacobson
The Learning Hub is launching this week. The website is a simple, homemade one that we can use as a sort of pilot. It will give us an opportunity to try out different ideas and...
- David Jacobson
Somerville is graciously sharing a video of David Kirp’s talk about the Union City, NJ success story: https://vimeo.com/89543325. Also see the links below for Kirp’s NYT op-ed and Somerville Mayor Curtatone’s article on the Universal...
