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New Federal Effort is a Huge Step Forward for Early Education

The $500 million, Race to the Top -Early Learning Challenge represents a "bold, significant, innovative effort" to support the development of an early-learning system for children from birth to age five, writes Kagan, the Virginia and Leonard Marx professor of early childhood and family policy at Teachers College and co-director of the National Center for Children and Families, in an opinion piece in Education Week.
By Sharon Lynn Kagan, Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy; Co-director, National Center for Children and Families.

The $500 million, Race to the Top -Early Learning Challenge represents a "bold, significant, innovative effort" to support the development of an early-learning system for children from birth to age five, writes Kagan, the Virginia and Leonard Marx professor of early childhood and family policy at Teachers College and co-director of the National Center for Children and Families, in an opinion piece in Education Week.

LINK:  Moving the Agenda on the Early Learning Challenge, or download the article.

Published Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011

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