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Broader Bolder Early Childhood Framework (click on graphics to enlarge) Slide One This presentation provides information, statistics, and arguments in favor of a broad set of early childhood care and education policies, including: Parental leave Nurse and other professional home [...]

Research on Reforms was developed because of the urgency to collect data and analyze the findings to determine if the educational reforms of 2005 were working. The 2005 Louisiana Legislature enacted laws that allowed experimentation in the public schools, and recognized that experimenting with the lives of [...]

Peer Reviewed Title: New Orleans Education Reform: A Guide for Cities or a Warning for Communities? (Grassroots Lessons Learned, 2005-2012) Journal Issue Berkeley Review of Education, 4(1) Author Buras, Kristen L., Georgia State University Urban South Grassroots Research Collective, Members Publication Date: 2013 Publication Info: Berkeley [...]

A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education The Challenge More than a half century of research, both here and abroad, has documented a powerful association between social and economic disadvantage and low student achievement. Weakening that association is the fundamental challenge facing America’s education policy [...]

Tim Macpherson/STONE+, via Getty Images Carefully read the instructions on the cover of the test booklet. By Jonathan Kozol | Originally Published at The New York Times September 26, 2013 Over the past 20 years, a rising tide of voices in the world of public policy has [...]

Daniel Goleman's New Focus – By Joshua Freedman | Originally Published at Six Seconds September 24, 2013 What’s your focus? How do you decide? Do feelings play a role? Daniel Goleman’s new book explores the research and practice of attention — which turns out to be a [...]

Taking Back Childhood. A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kid by Nancy Carlsson Paige, Ed.D. a Professor Emerita at Lesley University. Nancy taught teachers for more than 30 years. She has written and spoken extensively about the impact of media on children’s lives and social [...]

Beyond Remote-Controlled Childhood: Teaching Young Children in the Media Age by Diane E. Levin, Ph.D., a professor of early childhood education at Wheelock College in Boston, invites Educators to reflect on children’s well-being and consider the milieu that exists within a world of screens. We [...]

Diane E. Levin Diane E. Levin, Ph.D. is Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts where she has been training early childhood professionals for over twenty-five years. She teaches courses on play, violence prevention, action research and a summer institute on [...]