Wednesday, June 1, 2011

This Week In Education: Debate: Cross Early Childhood Advocates At Your Peril

This Week In Education: Debate: Cross Early Childhood Advocates At Your Peril

Debate: Cross Early Childhood Advocates At Your Peril

image from scholasticadministrator.typepad.comMy post on the National Journal's sleepy Education Experts blog has apparently been taken down per a complaint from another contributor -- assumedly someone enthusiastic about the recent decision to give most of the RTTT money to early childhood (the topic of this week's "discussion"). Too bad, since the post -- a repeat of the mashed up Hangover poster I published last week, plus some text to explain its purpose -- is clearly a form of commentary, amusing or not, and one of my usual attempts to mesh pop culture and education reform. Maybe the image was too big. Truth is, I'm not at all opposed to funding early childhood at much higher levels and have reported on ECE developments several times in recent weeks. I was just