It is a new year and we at Defending the Early Years are excited to continue our work promoting policies…
assessment of learning
Denisha Jones and Marcy Guddemi led DEY’s Annual Organizing meeting, held during the NAEYC conference on November 23 in Nashville,…
Education in the United States, and especially early childhood education, is a decentralized patchwork of local, state, national, and private…
By now, most of us have heard about or seen the harrowing pictures of children as young as 12-months-old being…
by Rae Pica Note that this piece was originally posted on the NAEYC Hello website. It is re-published with…
DEY was represented at the recent tribute to Diane Ravitch, held in New York City. Left to right: Diane Ravitch;…
Our fight for public education is only good if we fight for social justice. – Denisha Jones, SOS, United…
Early childhood activists have been organizing in the UK. Last week the Save Childhood Movement in England – “a growing collaboration…
There is a bit of a standardized testing revolt brewing in Seattle! About a week ago, the teachers at Garfield…