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OPINION: The leaders who are shaping early childhood education need better, more professional preparation
3+ hour, 38+ min ago (836+ words) Something essential has been missing from the national conversation about what it will take to improve and sustain early childhood education. We are not producing nearly enough leaders with the specialized expertise to turn good policy ideas into lasting systems…...
Developmental screening outside the doctor’s office
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (325+ words) Like many parents, I remember visits to the pediatrician’s office in my daughter’s earliest years as overwhelming — a swirl of weights and measurements, rushed conversations about sleep training, breastfeeding and tummy time, all while trying to keep the featured attraction…...
OPINION: It’s time to stop teaching the fun out of childhood and let kids be kids. Give them a ball and get out of their way
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (830+ words) How do kids learn how to kick a ball? If you think that’s a silly question — kids just kick things, don’t they? — you are thinking like me: Old school. Recently Ginny Yurich, host of the “1000 Hours Outside” podcast, sent me…...
A leading school shootings researcher says he was wrong
3+ week, 6+ day ago (587+ words) Scientists rarely announce that one of their long-held ideas has failed. But that is exactly what Ron Avi Astor, one of the nation’s leading scholars of school violence and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said before…...
Don’t let AI raise your kids
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (415+ words) In 2020, a 14-inch tall robot named Moxie was introduced to the world as a way to help children build social and emotional skills through conversations and interactive games guided by artificial intelligence. Kids became enthralled and attached to the oblong…...
Schools try to block kids from accessing dangerous content and games online. Little kids are outsmarting them
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1386+ words) When Jodi Carreon’s son returned to school full time after the pandemic, she expected teachers would roll back the use of the laptops they had relied on while students were home. But soon after her son started second grade, Carreon…...
Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free child care center for city workers
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1029+ words) This story was published by The 19th and reprinted with permission. Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare…...
TEACHER VOICE: AI is an addictive drug that must be researched, studied and confined
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (850+ words) In my English and writing classes, I ask my students to interrogate fictional character bots. The first time I assigned this project, I worried that I would get them addicted to Character.AI — arguably the most seductive and addictive type…...
How cutting fruit almost landed a 10-year-old in disciplinary school
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (505+ words) Juan Lozada’s grandson missed out on almost his entire fifth-grade year at his dual language elementary school in San Antonio, Texas. All because of a child-friendly knife, marketed as safe for ages 3 and up, that the boy brought to school…...
Want to boost early literacy skills? Try singing
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (342+ words) Parents and educators intuitively know the many benefits of singing and music for young children. It’s why children learn the alphabet through song, PBS’ Daniel Tiger sings to teach emotional regulation, and lullabies are used to lull babies to sleep....