PreK-3 movement trying to overhaul early education, but faces obstacles
A mother reads to her son at a community center opened in Carpinteria, CA.
A few years ago, preschool teachers in Santa Maria, a low-income, mostly Hispanic city north of Santa Barbara, CA, attended a series of meetings with kindergarten teachers in the district. Most had never met. Although their students were only a year apart in age, teachers had little idea what happened in each other’s classrooms.
What they discovered changed the course of early education in this small city, and is at the heart of a new
