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My four–year-old daughter loves to play a game we call “I’m looking.” We usually play in the car – I’ll start with “I’m looking at something blue. Can you guess what it is?” She guesses with the typical, and often silly, guesses of a child her age: a bird, her

For many years, advocates of early education have focused on reaching children and their families. Getting more four-year-olds into pre-K, for example, has been an important and increasingly successful rallying cry. But as pre-K expansion accelerates and the science of children advances, we are at a new fork in the

Reading proficiently by third grade is an essential step in keeping students on track to graduate high school and move on successfully to college or the workforce. Additionally, reading is the only subject for which a student can be retained. To ensure new teachers are prepared to guide students to

Happy birthday, Head Start! Having begun its very first session in the summer of 1965, Head Start is celebrating fifty years of serving some of our nation’s most vulnerable children. The program has been a positive force for young children through the provision of early care and education – serving more than

Dear Friends and Colleagues.  What a ride.  For this Kansas Citian, 2014 will be remembered for the Royals improbable, yet fantastic, run up to the last out of the last inning of the last game of the World Series.  For all of us, it will be remembered for some of