It is a new year and we at Defending the Early Years are excited to continue our work promoting policies…
pushdown of academics
Denisha Jones and Marcy Guddemi led DEY’s Annual Organizing meeting, held during the NAEYC conference on November 23 in Nashville,…
At the last DEY organizing meeting during the NAEYC conference in Washington, DC, I met Heather Siskind who is the…
A new study in American Educational Research Journal ostensibly found that teaching advanced academic content in kindergarten is beneficial in…
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…
On Saturday, October 14th, I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel titled Reclaiming Childhood and Restoring Teacher Voice…
by Rae Pica Note that this piece was originally posted on the NAEYC Hello website. It is re-published with…