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Phew! We’ve made it through the election. Now, take some deep, deep breaths and enjoy new reading about #EarlyLearning successes.
Highlights:
- Parenting brain? Parents are made, not born. KC Compton’s piece about this exciting research shows that the act of caregiving creates ‘Parenting Brain’ in all primary caregivers, including non-biological parents and child-care educators. Important new report by Drs. Pilyoung Kim and Sarah Watamura of the University of Denver.
- Mind Field. We’ve launched a new series: 1 topic/6 top experts, in fewer than 200 words. First topic? PLAY, featuring:
- Researchers Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff (Playful Learning Landscapes)
- NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer (Playground Deserts)
- Researcher Geetha Ramani (Play Counts in Math Learning,)
- Outreach and Education Specialist, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) Marley Jarvis (Brain Building through Play)
- LEGO Foundation’s Kasper Ottosson Kanstrup (Learning Through Play)
- Author/co-founder of the Children & Nature Network Richard Louv (Play as a Form of Enchantment)
- Preschool for All: It’s a Movement. Achieving tuition-free seems like a Herculean— or Sisyphean— task. But take heart! Elliot Haspel explores how this smart, motivated region of Multnomah County, Oregon galvanized broad support and broke the rules for a universal preschool campaign. Hot-off-the-presses update? The measure just passed in Portland and Multnomah County.
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