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DEY offers guidelines for implementing an age-appropriate, meaningful, and caring approach to help young children deal with this shocking event.
DEY’s latest report on the results from our COVID survey. Launching DEY’s Working Groups. And much more.
Announcing DEY’s new website. Our latest report on school readiness. An much more.
DEY’s Virtual Summer Institute. Audrey Duck Asks “Why Are People Protesting?” Complete our COVID Survey. And much more. View the…
DEY produces its second Audrey Duck video, “Audrey Duck Tells Dr. Susan Linn, ‘I’m Tired of the Virus!’” News on…
The debate about “online preschool” continues. DEY’s Summer Institute. And much more. View the March 2020 DEY newsletter here.
Fighting for play in Illinois. DEY’s Summer Institute. Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s work in Guatemala. To read about those stories and much…
DEY’s Summer Institute. Our latest video and more. Read the January 2020 DEY Newsletter.
Don’t miss our latest video on play, featuring our founders and senior advisors, Nancy Carlsson-Page and Diane Levin. Also, check…
2019 was a busy year for both Defending the Early Years and for the early childhood education advocacy movement. In…
Defending play. Advocating for childhood. The how, why, and where. This issue is about activism–advocating for our youngest students, our…
Play is so central to healthy human development that pediatricians are increasingly writing play “prescriptions” for their young patients, and…
A revolution for True Play has arrived and was in full force at DEY’s Summer Institute in July. This is…
DEY’s First Early Childhood Summer Organizing Leadership Institute – A Huge Success! View the newsletter
Find Nancy’s interview on Boston’s CBS affiliate WBZ’s program, Studio BZ, which was completed on Wednesday, January 16th. The interview…
Diane spoke on BYU – Baylor University Public Radio in Utah, January 13, 2019 on the topic of the impact…
WEBINAR ON MONDAY, NOV. 5 @ 7:30 PM EST In this webinar, based on her keynote at the Children’s Screen…
On October 10, 2018, Defending the Early Years (DEY) and Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) co-authored a statement…
Don’t miss DEY’s two-minute documentary series, Teachers Speak Out. Find it here.
DEY Senior Advisor Diane Levin is interviewed by Joanna Weiss for this article published in the 9-27-17 Education Issue in…
Find the half-hour program by clicking here.
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…
Network for Public Education released its toolkit, entitle: “NPE Toolkit: School Privatization Explained.” This comprehensive toolkit will answer questions…
Secondary education is now borrowing ideas from early childhood. Published April 7, 2017 in The Hechinger Report, read the full…
DEY Senior Advisor Nancy Carlsson-Paige writes an op-ed in Valerie Strauss’ The Answer Sheet in the Washington Post (3/15/17). …
A necessary commonplace: Almost everyone we know has been turned around, or at least seriously shaken, by a teacher—in college,…
DEY Senor Advisor Nancy Carlsson-Paige speaks at the Nordic Conference in New York. (11/16) Research in child development over…
Learning to Count to 14 the Common Core Way and the Developmentally Appropriate Way – What is the Difference? Why…
The Opinion Pages/Letters To the Editor: Re “Testing for Grit? Schools Pushed on Social Skills” (front page, March 1):…
We received the following question from a friend and former student who is now a kindergarten teacher: “I am…
This year DEY has been working hard to mobilize the early childhood community to speak out with well-reasoned arguments…
In the current edition of Young Child, published by NAEYC, DEY’s Diane E. Levin offers the following advice to parents:Memo to:…
Here is another excellent example of a teacher pushing back against corporate ed reform! Please check out the blog…
Have you heard about the “National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education” on December 9th? Here…
Earlier this week DEY’s Senior Adviser Diane Levin published the piece Media Literacy for Young Children: Essential for School Success…
Many early childhood teachers across the nation are gearing up for the new school year just a few weeks away…
In the midst of current education policies that are harmful to young children, Susan Ohanian is a champion of young…
Here at DEY we hope that you do not miss Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s Tedx Talk from the Calhoun School…
Much has been happening in the early childhood world. On February 14, President Obama released details of his new Plan for…
In today’s Washington Post, Valerie Strauss posted a much-needed critique of the Common Core State Standards for early childhood education on her…
DEY invites you to check out Diane Levin’s latest blog entry on Wheelock College’s Aspire website. Diane wrote the article because of…
The following blog post was written by Diane Ravitch – she is asking everyone to spread he word. Click here to…
Here’s what I would say to the presidential candidates (in case they ask me) about what we need to do…
Dear Friends of DEY, Many good things have been happening at DEY – and I wanted to take this…