Wednesday, July 10, 2013

The Educated Reporter: Getting It Right on Preschool For All

The Educated Reporter: Getting It Right on Preschool For All:

Getting It Right on Preschool For All



EWA's 66th National Seminar was recently held at Stanford University, and we asked some of the education reporters attending to contribute blog posts from the sessions. Today's guest blogger is Suzanne Bouffard of the Harvard Education Letter. The full podcast of the session can be found hereStream any session from National Seminar in your browser, or subscribe via RSS or iTunes. For more on early learning, visit EWA's Story Starters online resource. 

Preschool teachers will tell you that it’s not all about what you do in the classroom, it’s also about how. The same is true when it comes to preschool policy. That's the advice of panelists who spoke at EWA's national seminar session about President Obama's proposal to provide preschool access to all four year olds from low- and moderate-income families. Responding to questions posed by Karin Klein of the Los Angeles Times, the panelists expressed concerns about the details of the proposa