Posts tagged Conservatives
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Breakfast links: More of a city
CaBi brings growth; Let MoCo grow more urban; Some hostile to hostel; Metro delays grow more unbearable; Taxis change at National Harbor; Bike bits; And…. Keep reading…
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Daycare is education, part 2: Early childhood care matters
We know daycare in the US is high-cost and low-quality. We know France and Sweden provide better services at no cost to families. But do we understand how vital daycare is to childhood development and the economic and personal growth of their parents? Last month, I wrote about the difficulty of finding good, affordable childcare in the United States. While President Obama and… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What WMATA is up to
Metro backs out of transit center; WMATA budget was easy; A patriotic SmarTrip; The rich parts of the Metro; Out of staters take local spaces; Market rate or a market?; Less intrusive government, only if you behave; TIGER roars; And…. Keep reading…
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Daycare is education. Why isn’t it better?
The cover story of the New Republic this week describes the “hell of American day care.” While it goes into detail on a few extreme cases, the article also asks a very important question. Given what we know about early childhood cognitive development, why do we treat the environment infants and toddlers find themselves in with such disregard? The article intersperses… Keep reading…