For my last column of the year, I want to touch on a less-discussed but not-unimportant question: what in the heck should we call the care and education of children during the first five years of their life?
Last fall, I received an email from a distraught mother.
Children 2, 3 and 4 years old—especially boys and Black children—are being kicked out of their schools at “staggering rates,” she writes—more than three times that of K–12 school children.
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I still have flashbacks to the time my elder child’s kindergarten teacher left me alone with the class. Opening Cloudy...
Originally published by The 19th; republished here with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Nearly one in 4 parents...
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