Posts tagged Daycare
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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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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…