Aug 19, 2011
AS A FORMER TEACHER, Dom Giordano should recognize that Head Start plays a powerful role in reducing the achievement gap between poor and middle-income children. As a journalist, he should recognize his role is to help readers sort fact from fiction, instead of...
Jul 10, 2011
A number of the decisions Gov. Corbett made in his budget were unsettling, but among the more egregious is a 9.3 percent cut to child-care subsidies for the poor. It will force struggling parents to choose between work and welfare, ultimately increasing the...
May 21, 2011
Julia Van Houten, 31, a single mother with an 8-year-old girl and a 17-month-old boy, has struggled for years to make ends meet despite working full-time. A child-care teacher for close to nine years at Sonshine Christian Academy in Drexel Hill, Van Houten is paid $10...
Oct 13, 2010
AT THE beginning of MSNBC’s weeklong Education Nation summit, educators deliberated the state of American education and the many challenges affecting the nation’s schools. There was lots of hand-clapping and plenty of “Amen” moments as the...
Jun 16, 2010
Military officials who are worried about finding future soldiers are lobbying for more early childhood education funding. Their plea for Pre-K programs came in response to a new study that found that up to 90 percent of Philadelphia youth lack the qualifications for...
Jan 12, 2010
Early-childhood education is among the best investments a society can make for the future. Students enrolled in pre-K programs, a time when the mind is especially responsive to learning, perform demonstrably better in school later on. Read more…
