No Longer Welcome by Katherine M. Zinsser (.ePUB)
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No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education by Katherine M. Zinsser
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Overview: For over 15 years, researchers have described a crisis in our nations’ early learning classrooms. Hundreds of children are expelled from childcare and preschool every day; a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten-12th grade students. While policymakers have taken steps to mitigate this crisis, disparities in who is expelled persist. Boys and Black children are routinely over-represented among those pushed out of the exact environments that are supposed to help prepare them for school. Each child’s expulsion is symptomatic of a larger crisis–an overburdened, underfunded, undervalued, and fragmented early education system.
In early childhood, expulsion is the result of a series of adult decisions made within constrained contexts and at times blind to downstream consequences: exhausted and underpaid teachers deciding how to expend their limited attention and energy in a chaotic classroom; administrators on razor-thin budgets deciding among hiring additional personnel, providing high-quality training, or investing in adequate classroom resources; fragmented state agencies separately deciding on standards and policies and allocating funds for early intervention and consultation services.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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