Children, Guns, and the Bear of Toxic Stress

Adverse Childhood Experiences / Betsy DeVos / Child Well-being / Children and Poverty / Donald Trump / ECEPM Blog / Gun Reform / Gun Violence / Nadine Burke Harris / National Rifle Association / Toxic Stress / Wayne LaPierre / Writing Leave a comment

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 must be creative and steadfast in our resistance.  We must harness the energy in our communities for social progress and educational equity—and …

Bill de Blasio’s Schools Chancellor is Leaving: Who will Restore the Joy to Early Ed?

Bill de Blasio / Carmen Farina / Child Well-being / Chloe Pashman / Common Core / Dana Doyle / Democracy / Developmentally Appropriate Practice / Diversity / Early Childhood Workforce / ECEPM Blog / Ellen Jaffe Cogan / High-stakes Testing / Inequality / Jamaal A. Bowman / Jeannette Corey / Katie Lapham / Lisa North / Michael Hynes / Pay Parity / Play / Preschool / Renee Dinnerstein / Segregation / Writing Leave a comment

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 in her mailbox, the imprimatur of Carmen Fariña in the upper left-hand corner. An elementary school teacher and long-time critic of education …