Welcome to EarlyStories, a weblog written (mostly) by Richard Lee Colvin, the director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, Teachers College, Columbia University. It contains commentary on coverage of issues (in newspapers, magazines, television, radio, blogs) related to early childhood education, broadly defined, inside and outside of schools, preschools, subway cars, living rooms and the dining table.
Archives
- 2007.03.02: The Family Bed
- 2007.03.01: Goldwater Institute Predictably Finds Benefits from School Choice, None from Pre-Kindergarten
- 2007.02.26: Sioux Falls Paper Leads So. Dak. Pre-K Discussion
- 2007.02.26: PA's Rendell's Ambitious Plan: Where's the Coverage?
- 2007.02.25: Head Start Compromise in Senate...WashPost says "show us the money!"
- 2007.02.23: Pre-K Expansion in OK Dead for now
- 2007.02.22: Long View Required on Payoff of Pre-K Investment
- 2007.02.20: Early Results on Early Reading in Florida
- 2007.02.20: "Get Schooled" Schooled on Government Indoctrination (of 4 year olds!)
- 2007.02.20: Good Coverage of Plan to Expand Pre-K in Iowa
- 2007.02.20: Commenters Stomp Their Feet and Shake Their Fingers at Pre-K Backers in Iowa
- 2007.02.14: And You Thought Manhattan Preschools Were Competitive!
- 2007.02.14: Fears of Government Nannies in Boise
- 2007.02.14: More on the "Debate" in Idaho
- 2007.02.09: Head Start Not Cut? Why Did NHSA Say So?
- 2007.02.08: Cuts in Head Start
- 2007.02.08: Pre-K and the Work Force
- 2007.02.08: On Children's Learning and Society
- 2007.02.08: Pedagogical Holding Pens?
- 2007.02.08: NY Times On OK Pre-K--in the Business Section!
- 2007.02.06: Bergen Record Endorses Full-Day Kindergarten
- 2007.02.06: Chat on Education in China
- 2007.02.06: The Evolution of Thinking on Early Childhood
- 2007.02.04: Hopes up for More Early Ed Spending in MN and MA
- 2007.02.04: Full-Day Kindergarten; Full Coverage
- 2007.02.01: "Conservative" Business Man Champions Pre-K in So. Dakota
- 2007.02.01: Child Poverty Topic of Congressional Hearing
- 2007.01.31: OK Gov. Wants to Expand Pre-K to 3's
- 2007.01.31: NY Gov. Makes Big Bet on Pre-K. Press Ignores It.
- 2007.01.31: Getting the Word Out
- 2007.01.30: You Heard it Here First: Head Start Reauthorization Will Pass
- 2007.01.30: The New Minimum Wage and Head Start Eligibility
- 2007.01.29: Even More Pre-K for OK.?
- 2007.01.29: A Mini-Lesson in Statistics
- 2007.01.26: Cheaper Beer or Smarter Kids?
- 2007.01.25: An Appreciation of Milton Friedman
- 2007.01.25: "Overscheduling" is Not All Bad
- 2007.01.25: Mayors on the March
- 2007.01.24: EdWeek Roundup of State Pre-K Action
- 2007.01.24: This is Just Too Easy (But Does it Matter?)
- 2007.01.22: Chipping Away at Florida's Pre-K Program
- 2007.01.22: Missing Out in Broward
- 2007.01.22: Justifying Chaos Down in Austin
- 2007.01.20: What Helps Poor Kids (Great Resource)
- 2007.01.20: Ending Gangs With Preschool?
- 2007.01.15: Online Pre-K Chat: Good Resource
- 2007.01.15: Leadership Helps Compton School Soar
- 2007.01.12: Early Language Instruction Politically Risky
- 2007.01.12: More on More Play
- 2007.01.11: Kids 'n Classroom Dogs (first add)
- 2007.01.11: Teaching Kids How to Play
- 2007.01.11: Starting Languages Young (This is Your Ticket to the Ivies!)
- 2007.01.10: I've Been Bad....
- 2007.01.10: New NYT Column on Teaching: More Classroom Dogs
- 2007.01.03: Expensive Private Preschools...in China
- 2007.01.02: Stirring Things up in Iowa
- 2007.01.02: Welcome to 2007
- 2007.01.02: Out of Shape at Three
- 2007.01.02: The Pursuit of Happyness
- 2007.01.02: Montessori Turns 100
- 2006.12.20: Pipeline to Harvard a Myth!?
- 2006.12.19: You Mean the John Birch Society Still Exists?
- 2006.12.19: Wow (and Thoughts on Assessment)
- 2006.12.19: "Transdisciplinary," "Bilingual" Scholars by the 5th Grade
- 2006.12.18: A Progress Report on Pre-K
- 2006.12.15: Up-to-date Participation Data and Trends
- 2006.12.15: What is Readiness?
- 2006.12.15: Blackberry Orphans
- 2006.12.15: Story Idea, Free for the Taking
- 2006.12.14: More Pre-School, Less High School
- 2006.12.13: Inside a Pre-K Classroom
- 2006.12.12: Brooklyn Pre-K Baby Boom
- 2006.12.12: Tis' the Season for Task Forces
- 2006.12.09: News You Can Use
- 2006.12.07: No Proof?
- 2006.12.07: Ambitious Proposal in Connecticut
- 2006.12.06: A Full Day in Indiana
- 2006.12.05: Preschool or Stay-at-Home-Moms?
- 2006.12.05: More $$ for Head Start in Oregon
- 2006.12.05: More on: K, the New First Grade
- 2006.12.03: Columnists in Denver, Not Reporters, Follow up on the Denver Preschool Program Vote
- 2006.12.03: Kindergarten: the New First Grade
- 2006.12.03: Brooks on KIPP and Tough
- 2006.12.02: What Paul Tough's Article Left Out
- 2006.12.02: What Paul Tough's Article (almost) Left Out
- 2006.12.01: More Moms Staying Home to Help Kids Learn
- 2006.11.29: The “Press” on the Press for Full Day Kindergarten
- 2006.11.29: The "War on Toddlers"?
- 2006.11.29: Room for the Little Ones?
- 2006.11.29: (Un)schooling, (Un)hinged
- 2006.11.29: "Unschooling" Letters
- 2006.11.26: More $$ for Pre-Kindergarten or High School?
- 2006.11.26: Catching Up From the Weekend: What Will it Take to Close Achievement Gaps?
- 2006.11.22: Tax Vote Leaves Denver Papers Flatfooted
- 2006.11.22: Kids or the "Vulnerable Tree Canopy"?
- 2006.11.22: Anyone Got a Phone Number for a Parent?
- 2006.11.22: High Quality Teaching Essential and Rare
- 2006.11.22: So What is Good Teaching?
- 2006.11.21: Improving Mississippi Education, Starting With UPK
- 2006.11.20: Pre-kindergarten Closing Achievement Gap
- 2006.11.20: Teach,Test,Teach,Test...in Kindergarten?
- 2006.11.17: Celebrating Victories
- 2006.11.16: "Half-baked" Art Projects, "Half-baked" Journalism
- 2006.11.16: "Half-baked" Art Projects, "Half-baked" Journalism (2)
- 2006.11.15: Getting Ready for High School at Age 5 (Oregon)
- 2006.11.15: Richard Lee Colvin, Director of the Hechinger Institute
- 2006.11.15: Getting Ready for High School Graduation at Age 4 (Ohio)
- 2006.11.15: About the Hechinger Institute