As many of you have heard, Jacqueline Jones announced that the ED is now creating the Office of Early Learning. Although mentioned by Jacqueline Jones in a speech at the (NAEYC) Conference last Friday, the official announcement was made in a blog by EdSec Arne Duncan yesterday in the Huffington Post. The Office of Early Learning will be tasked with the management and administration of the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grants.
Beyond that we can only speculate….
How might the Office of Early Learning impact the other federal agency that oversees early learning: Health & Human Services and its Head Start office?
How might this new office develop regulations that impact those early care providers who currently serve 3 and 4 year old children?
Will we push formal pre-reading programs down further into early childhood?
Will curriculum become a set of pre-selected commercial products that reportedly embrace “evidence-based instruction” for our youngest learners?
If Public funded Pre-k in becomes widely available at little or no cost, will our most creative parents (i.e. Google and Apple Developers) still choose Waldorf schools and non-academic or high-touch (rather than hi-tech) early learning programs?
Is this the beginning of the end of the local Community based program for 3-5 year olds?
Read More:
Act Early, Act Often on ECE @ http://blog.eduflack.com/2011/11/07/act-early-act-often-on-ece.aspx
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