Week of November 23, 2020

 

United Way Focuses On Early Childhood Education In Impoverished Aurora Neighborhoods CBS Denver  Nov 20 2020

In a steely anti-government polemic, Betsy DeVos says America’s public schools are designed to replace home and family Answer Sheet Valerie Strauss Nov 21 2020

Remote learners feel shortchanged in districts pressured to reopen in person The Hechinger Report Bracey Harris and Caroline Preston Nov 22 2020

Funding from state, Let’s Grow Kids creating nearly 100 new child care spaces locally St Albans Messenger Courtesy of Let’s Grow Kids Nov 23 2020

Teaching preschoolers online: Indiana’s experiment draws few takers Chalkbeat Stephanie Wang Nov 23 2020

We Have a Discipline Problem in Early Ed. What Are We Doing to Help Educators Fix It? New America Foundation Abbie Lieberman Nov 23 2020

Illinois Child Care Centers Report Enrollment Declines As Pandemic Wears On Chicago Patch Chalkbeat Chicago, News Partner Nov 23 2020

NYC Preschool Families Face Painful Disparities as Some Schools Shutter and Others Stay Open The Seventy Four Zoë Kirsch Nov 24 2020

Fairfax County’s youngest students will continue virtual learning in December MSN United States Timothy Barber ABC Nov 24 2020

Adams County child care providers get $1 million in COVID relief Chalkbeat Sherkiya Wedgeworth-Hollowell Nov 24 2020

Kindergartners struggle to learn online. But this mother-daughter duo keeps them glued [Los Angeles Times] Daily Republic  Nov 24 2020

FEATURE: Kindergarten Online Yale Daily News Owen Tucker-Smith Nov 25 2020

New federal data shows Black preschoolers still disciplined at far higher rates than Whites Washington Post Valerie Strauss Nov 26 2020

Pre-K classroom enrollment numbers down due to COVID, seats needing to be filled LaGrange Daily News Jenna Oden Nov 28 2020

Crisis in early education and care demands action CommonWealth Magazine Anne Douglass Nov 28 2020

New Requirement to Publish Per-Pupil Spending Data Could Help Schools Direct Funding to the Neediest Students. The 74 Laura Fay Nov 29 2020

UChicago Study Explores How Latino Families Make Child Care Decisions WTTW-TV Annemarie Mannion Nov 29 2020