WTXL – Christine Souders
“Early childhood education in the U.S. is a disaster, and policies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia do little to address the low wages and economic insecurity among teachers and the lack of affordable, high-quality services for children. Those are the findings at the heart of a new report released Thursday by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley – the first comprehensive state-by-state analysis of early education employment conditions and policies…“Absent change, our nation will remain unable to deliver on the promise of developmental and learning opportunities for all children,” wrote Marcy Whitebook, director of the Berkley center and one of the study’s authors.”(more)