Children, Guns, and the Bear of Toxic Stress
Within days of Donald Trump’s victory, I issued the following call to action: As we go forward, holding our children close, we must be vigilant, and relentless. We ...
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Bill de Blasio’s Schools Chancellor is Leaving: Who will Restore the Joy to Early Ed?
Not long before New York City’s public schools closed for winter break, Katie Lapham posted to Twitter a drab black-and-white photograph of a testing manual she had found ...
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New York’s Young Children are Thrown under the Bus
On September 11th, the education committee of the New York Board of Regents approved the “Next Generation” standards for English Language Arts and mathematics. Our youngest children have ...
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Harriett Krein-Hart: A Bright Light on the Hudson
When my firstborn was a toddler, his father and I began the search for child care. The project was daunting, the price tag exorbitant. To whom could we ...
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Will Bill de Blasio Exile Three-Year-Olds from Play?
My family held a Passover Seder in London this year. A feast of liberation in a city governed by Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim to preside over a ...
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Andrew Gillum’s Campaign to Bring Home Play
It’s not easy keeping up with the latest in education policy. I have to wade through lots of detritus in my inbox. And we haven’t even begun to ...
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