The Gap Between Intention & Action
There is an excellent article in The American Prospect, titled Literacy Begins at Birth. It’s an essential read for anyone who cares about early education policy. Here’s the lead:
Early childhood education has become the public-policy bobblehead of our time. An expanding raft of scientific and economic research underscores the need to significantly expand quality early learning in the first five years of life, particularly for at-risk children. Many key policy-makers know this. They nod. And nod.
That’s often all they do.
