In a Head Start classroom on Chicago’s West Side, there is a specific type of noise: the scraping of plastic…
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When you visit practically any private daycare facility in this nation, you’ll notice something about the turnover that isn’t immediately…
The notion that a location intended for healing can occasionally make you sicker is particularly cruel. When you enter a…
In conference rooms where policy experts and educators sit across from one another and speak over one another, a certain…
There’s a small Head Start classroom in Frederick, Maryland where a three-year-old stacks Duplo blocks with the focused intensity of…
Imagine a four-year-old learning to balance, stacking blocks, and being totally engrossed in a Head Start classroom in Frederick, Maryland.…
The alphabet posters on the walls and the crayon drawings taped above the cubbies are not the first things you…
The parks quickly fill up on a warm May afternoon. Sandwiches emerge from bags, blankets are placed on the grass,…
The picture of a child sitting cross-legged on a carpet with their hands buried in a tub of colorful sand…
You think you’ve misheard the statistic the first time you hear it. Preschoolers, who are three or four years old…