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2021 Blogs
2020 Blogs
- Don’t be a Hypocrite
- Even with an Increase in Child Care Dollars Mississippi Children are Shut Out of Much Needed Services
- Halloween May Never Be the Same
- It Can’t Get Any More Real
- Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Worse…
- New Data Illuminates the Child Care Crisis
- Nothing Like Looking Forward to Keep the Faith
- The Week of the Young Child 2020: We Must Not Forget
- What if the Child Care Centers Shut Down?
- Wise Words from Our Friend-Dr. Seuss
2019 Blogs
- 2020 Census Holds the Key to Additional Funding for Our Children
- Babies and Toddlers In Low Income Families are At-Risk for Emotional Development Delays
- Counting our Chickens is Important: 2020 Census
- Do Facts Still Matter? Teacher Pay Raise
- Do facts still matter?
- If You Have a Relationship with a Child-Vote on November 5th
- Independence Day: Is this what the Founding Fathers Envisioned?
- Left Behind
- Mississippi Receives Funding for Programs Serving Young Children
- “Only a virtuous people…”
- State’s Failure to Support Early Childhood Education Has Far Reaching Consequences
- What “family values”?
- Your Vote Matters!
2018 Blogs
- After A While You Don’t Know Your Lens is Cloudy
- Another Case of Ill-Informed Pronouncements on Education in Mississippi
- Even Mothers’ Milk is in Trouble
- Hate
- Omnibus Budget Bill in Congress Holds Promise for Young Children
- Parents Tout Benefits of Troubled First Steps Program
- The Cost of a Hamburger
- The Facts Sometimes Get in the Way of the Truth-As We Know It
- The Rate of Return in Investments in Preparing the Workforce through High Quality Early Childhood
- This Is for Someone Else to Solve
- Where Is Mr. Rogers When You Need Him?
- Who knew what when?
- Word of the Day: Agnotology
- Working Our Way Out of Poverty? It’s Not Likely in Mississippi
2017 Blogs
- A List of Things We Can Hope for…
- Hunger for Knowledge is Second Place to Being Hungry
- If we could only do it over….
- Jesus Might Love the Little Children of All Colors, But Do We?
- New Study Points to Importance of Early Education
- Paying for School Choice by Repealing ESEA (Title I) is a Bad Idea in Mississippi
- Paying The Price Costs More Than We Think
- Premature Babies + Disabled Adults = Sick Economy
- The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind
- Trauma and Young Children: A Disastrous Beginning with an Even More Tragic End
- We know what will work in JPS…but will we apply it?
- We Reap What We Sow
- We Will Never Overcome Economic Challenges Without Pre-K Investment
- What are we teaching our children when we avoid those who are different?
- When Times are Bad for Poor Children, They’re Bad for All of Us
2016 Blogs
- Early Childhood Education in Mississippi and Beyond
- Elementary School Principals Need Support to Better Understand Early Childhood Education
- Expectations to Rise for Early Childhood Teachers
- Investing in Pre-K is a Major Weapon to Combat the Achievement Gap
- Investing in Summer Learning Programs Pays Off
- Just Imagine….
- Kicked Out at Age 4?
- National Child Care Report: Child Care is Fragmented in America
- Pre-K Investments Generate 10 Percent Return
- Prejudice and Pre-School: Some Surprising Information
- Quality Pre-Kindergarten Can Diminish the Impacts of Poverty
- Suspended From Pre-K? For 8,000+ Children the Answer is ‘Yes’
- The Children on the Other Side of the River
- Will little children win or lose in the 2017 legislative session?