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The racist and sexist roots of child care in America explain why the system...
MEDFORD, Mass. — A year later, Roxana Contreras would say she didn’t know what she was thinking. But in the early spring of 2020, her business in shambles and bills to pay, she decided that she had no...
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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers
NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. This story also appeared in...
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Want your child to receive better reading help in public school? It might...
When Ann Civitareale’s father passed away in 2009, she little fathomed that she would spend thousands of her inheritance on medical and educational testing for her two sons. This story also appeared...
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While white students get specialists, struggling Black and Latino readers...
BOSTON—The worry nagged at Roxann Harvey from the time her children were in kindergarten. They couldn’t name all their letters, much less equate them with sounds. Teachers offered tepid assurances...
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NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading
FAIRFAX, Va. — For years, the Fairfax County NAACP’s small education committee devoted itself mostly to fights over Confederate school names and acts of racism against individual students. It waged...
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Black and Latino infants and toddlers often miss out on early therapies they...
Lee este artículo en español. By the time her daughter turned 3, Ramona Santos Torres noticed something not quite right about the child’s speech. The toddler babbled, but nothing she said was...
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Los bebés y niños pequeños afroamericanos y latinos a menudo pierden las...
Para cuando su hija cumplió 3 años, Ramona Santos Torres notó que había algo que no estaba del todo bien en su habla. La niña pequeña balbuceaba, pero nada de lo que decía era inteligible. Rara vez...
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Back on the beat: A reporter’s view of early education
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning....
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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our...
It pains Tim Odegard that four decades after a misguided approach to diagnosing dyslexia kept him from getting help in school, thousands of children across the U.S. are needlessly suffering for the...
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Six ideas to ease the early intervention staffing crisis
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How to keep dual-language programs from being gentrified by English speaking...
For parents applying to the dual-language program at Rochester, New York’s public school No. 12, where students learn in both English and Spanish, the process can be both bureaucratic and baffling....
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Child care workers organize for better pay and treatment
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Including young learners in the push for reading reform
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. A...
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Curbing private equity’s expansion into child care
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How flawed IQ tests prevent kids from getting help in school
Even before her son started kindergarten, Ashley Meier Barlow realized that she might have to fight for his education. Her son has Down Syndrome; when he was in prekindergarten, school officials in...
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Reporter’s Notebook: Even the ‘father of IQ tests’ thought the results...
IQ tests created by French psychologist Alfred Binet in the early 20th century paved the way for widespread intelligence testing in American schools — including of the youngest learners. But Binet...
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