"Recent reports estimate that 200 million children fail to reach their full developmental potential by age 5. Drawing on our experience in North America, the Center on the Developing Child works globally to build a broader movement to achieve breakthrough outcomes for children around the world" (Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2010). The Center on the Developing Child is helping not only in the U.S. but in Brazil, Canada, and Mexico saving brains of children. In Brazil they are coming up with new ways and angles on addressing childhood issues and putting them to a test. I learned that Canada Is working on ways to close the gap between what we know and what we do.
"Inequity pervades early childhood education, seriously restricting who has access to services, the quality of the services themselves, the quality and competency of those who teach young children, the nature and application of regulations, the quality and thoroughness of the expectations and standards that guide pedagogy and instruction, and the amount and distribution of resources" (Kagan, 2009). There are so many rules and regulations that stand in most parents and children's way when it comes to early childhood education. They either make it too expensive, or you have to meet certain requirements that most people cant because of their situations. Even sending a child to daycare part time is close to 200 a week, you might as well be paying rent! We as educators and early childhood facilities need to look at it from parents who are struggling just to make sure their child gets the education they deserve and aren't left behind.
References
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children's initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global-work/
Kagan, S. L. (2009). American early childhood education: Preventing or perpetuating inequity? (Equity Matters: Research Review No. 3). Retrieved from Campaign for Educational Equity website: http://www.policyforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Preventing-or-Perpetuating-Inequity.pdf
"Inequity pervades early childhood education, seriously restricting who has access to services, the quality of the services themselves, the quality and competency of those who teach young children, the nature and application of regulations, the quality and thoroughness of the expectations and standards that guide pedagogy and instruction, and the amount and distribution of resources" (Kagan, 2009). There are so many rules and regulations that stand in most parents and children's way when it comes to early childhood education. They either make it too expensive, or you have to meet certain requirements that most people cant because of their situations. Even sending a child to daycare part time is close to 200 a week, you might as well be paying rent! We as educators and early childhood facilities need to look at it from parents who are struggling just to make sure their child gets the education they deserve and aren't left behind.
References
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children's initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global-work/
Kagan, S. L. (2009). American early childhood education: Preventing or perpetuating inequity? (Equity Matters: Research Review No. 3). Retrieved from Campaign for Educational Equity website: http://www.policyforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Preventing-or-Perpetuating-Inequity.pdf
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