Improving Early Childhood Education Is Everyone's Job
- Parents can promote accreditation of early childhood programs to ensure that they meet high standards.
- Teachers can pursue credentials and degrees in early childhood education and participate in ongoing professional development opportunities that help them use research on children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development, including their literacy, math, and behavior skills.
- Teachers and administrators can support parents' involvement in their children's education both in schools and at home.
- Administrators can raise staff qualifications and teacher-child ratios and provide compensation that reflects the value of the staff's work and skills.
- Leaders at every level—national, state, local, and the private sector—can promote and finance policies that support family leave, affordable and high-quality child care, full-day and full-year Head Start programs, teacher preparation and ongoing professional development, safe and appropriate facilities, and other services ensuring that children and families do not have to choose between quality early childhood education and housing, food, and health care.
Source: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1509 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1426, (202) 232-8777, (800) 424-2460, www.naeyc.org.
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