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Charter Colleges for Early Educators Proposed

September 14, 2011 by Irene Sege

Photo: Kate Samp for Strategies for Children

Amid all the talk, pro and con, about charter schools as an education reform strategy for K-12, a new report from the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Studies Program proposes establishing charter colleges to train early educators.

Too often, the paper – “Beyond Bachelor’s: A Case for Charter Colleges of Early Childhood Education” – posits, traditional bachelor’s degree programs do not meet the needs of early educators, who, on average earn $23,870 a year as preschool teachers. States, the authors suggest, should create charter