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January 28, 2021

DEY offers guidelines for implementing an age-appropriate, meaningful, and caring approach to help young children deal with this shocking event.
January 10, 2021

December 10, 2020

December 10, 2020

DEY’s latest report on the results from our COVID survey. Launching DEY’s Working Groups. And much more.
September 22, 2020

Announcing DEY’s new website. Our latest report on school readiness. An much more.
August 28, 2020

DEY’s Virtual Summer Institute. Audrey Duck Asks “Why Are People Protesting?” Complete our COVID Survey. And much more. View the…
June 23, 2020

DEY produces its second Audrey Duck video, “Audrey Duck Tells Dr. Susan Linn, ‘I’m Tired of the Virus!’” News on…
May 14, 2020

The debate about “online preschool” continues. DEY’s Summer Institute. And much more. View the March 2020 DEY newsletter here.
March 19, 2020

Fighting for play in Illinois. DEY’s Summer Institute. Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s work in Guatemala. To read about those stories and much…
February 18, 2020

DEY’s Summer Institute. Our latest video and more. Read the January 2020 DEY Newsletter.
January 15, 2020

Don’t miss our latest video on play, featuring our founders and senior advisors, Nancy Carlsson-Page and Diane Levin. Also, check…
December 17, 2019

2019 was a busy year for both Defending the Early Years and for the early childhood education advocacy movement. In…
November 21, 2019

Defending play. Advocating for childhood. The how, why, and where. This issue is about activism–advocating for our youngest students, our…
October 16, 2019

Play is so central to healthy human development that pediatricians are increasingly writing play “prescriptions” for their young patients, and…
September 19, 2019

A revolution for True Play has arrived and was in full force at DEY’s Summer Institute in July. This is…
August 21, 2019

DEY’s First Early Childhood Summer Organizing Leadership Institute – A Huge Success! View the newsletter
July 23, 2019

June 18, 2019

Find Nancy’s interview on Boston’s CBS affiliate WBZ’s program, Studio BZ, which was completed on Wednesday, January 16th. The interview…
January 16, 2019

Diane spoke on BYU – Baylor University Public Radio in Utah, January 13, 2019 on the topic of the impact…
January 13, 2019

WEBINAR ON MONDAY, NOV. 5 @ 7:30 PM EST In this webinar, based on her keynote at the Children’s Screen…
November 5, 2018

On October 10, 2018, Defending the Early Years (DEY) and Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) co-authored a statement…
October 12, 2018

Don’t miss DEY’s two-minute documentary series, Teachers Speak Out. Find it here.
June 17, 2018

DEY Senior Advisor Diane Levin is interviewed by Joanna Weiss for this article published in the 9-27-17 Education Issue in…
September 27, 2017

Find the half-hour program by clicking here.
August 23, 2017

Read Wendy Locker’s insightful article, as published in the Stamford Advocate, at http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Wendy-Lecker-Nothing-abstract-about-the-lessons-11208722.php Last week, The New York Times unwittingly provided an…
June 10, 2017

June 6, 2017

Network for Public Education released its toolkit, entitle: “NPE Toolkit: School Privatization Explained.” This comprehensive toolkit will answer questions…
April 26, 2017

Secondary education is now borrowing ideas from early childhood. Published April 7, 2017 in The Hechinger Report, read the full…
April 8, 2017

DEY Senior Advisor Nancy Carlsson-Paige writes an op-ed in Valerie Strauss’ The Answer Sheet in the Washington Post (3/15/17). …
March 15, 2017

A necessary commonplace: Almost everyone we know has been turned around, or at least seriously shaken, by a teacher—in college,…
February 22, 2017

DEY Senor Advisor Nancy Carlsson-Paige speaks at the Nordic Conference in New York. (11/16) Research in child development over…
November 7, 2016

July 28, 2016

Learning to Count to 14 the Common Core Way and the Developmentally Appropriate Way – What is the Difference? Why…
March 25, 2016

The Opinion Pages/Letters To the Editor: Re “Testing for Grit? Schools Pushed on Social Skills” (front page, March 1):…
March 9, 2016

We received the following question from a friend and former student who is now a kindergarten teacher: “I am…
August 22, 2015

This year DEY has been working hard to mobilize the early childhood community to speak out with well-reasoned arguments…
December 31, 2014

In the current edition of Young Child, published by NAEYC, DEY’s Diane E. Levin offers the following advice to parents:Memo to:…
June 15, 2014

January 16, 2014

Here is another excellent example of a teacher pushing back against corporate ed reform! Please check out the blog…
December 8, 2013

Have you heard about the “National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education” on December 9th? Here…
December 1, 2013

Earlier this week DEY’s Senior Adviser Diane Levin published the piece Media Literacy for Young Children: Essential for School Success…
November 16, 2013

Many early childhood teachers across the nation are gearing up for the new school year just a few weeks away…
August 10, 2013

In the midst of current education policies that are harmful to young children, Susan Ohanian is a champion of young…
July 20, 2013

Here at DEY we hope that you do not miss Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s Tedx Talk from the Calhoun School…
April 13, 2013

Much has been happening in the early childhood world. On February 14, President Obama released details of his new Plan for…
February 27, 2013

In today’s Washington Post, Valerie Strauss posted a much-needed critique of the Common Core State Standards for early childhood education on her…
January 29, 2013

DEY invites you to check out Diane Levin’s latest blog entry on Wheelock College’s Aspire website. Diane wrote the article because of…
January 17, 2013

The following blog post was written by Diane Ravitch – she is asking everyone to spread he word. Click here to…
October 6, 2012

Here’s what I would say to the presidential candidates (in case they ask me) about what we need to do…
August 29, 2012

Dear Friends of DEY, Many good things have been happening at DEY – and I wanted to take this…
July 25, 2012