While we see the tyranny of merit most active in K-12 and higher education, school readiness is the Trojan horse through which it has breached the world of early childhood.
What, in the end, do we want young children (and young parents) to be ready for? For a nation that forces you to run a race before your legs can even hold your own weight, or a nation that says ‘we’ve got you, take your time’?
As founder of the organization and its nonprofit offshoots Schoolhouse.world, Khan Lab School and Khan World School, he has built a planet-changing education powerhouse that touches millions.
Sharing is one of the most important skills taught by early educators, so it’s ironic that the early education sector is just getting around to embracing sharing as a strategy to make small businesses more sustainable.
Maybe two generations aren’t enough. Ascend at the Aspen Institute champions two-generation solutions, supporting the educational and career goals of...
U.S. child care is broken. Centers and other businesses are closing. Educators are finding work in other fields with better...
Child Care Innovation: Centralizing Administrative Roles
Part 3 of a 5-part Series
Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...
Not everyone who comes to America is pursuing the American Dream. Some are in flight from life-threatening crises. Layered on...
The Zaentz Early Education Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) emphasizes research that drives policy and practice,...
“Five- and six-year-old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, May 1965 In...
An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...
Back in May, I had the privilege to present the closing keynote address at the Child Care Services Association annual conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. One point that several attendees told me resonated was when I showed that you can make many different arguments for child care, although advocates tend to focus primarily on only a few.
