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📣The Early Childhood Education Report is officially here!  Click the link to download your copy: https://lnkd.in/et_abtiS. Then, leave a comment about your key takeaways or what stood out to you the most in the comments below 👇

A high-quality early childhood education offers children numerous academic and social-emotional benefits that echo through the child’s life for decades to come. When selecting an Early Childhood Education Program for your child, look for programs that focus on creating a supportive, engaging environment in which students can develop essential competencies, explore, create, and express themselves, while learning to take healthy risks, and developing the frameworks for essential social, emotional, and academic skills.

Society as a whole does better when we invest in high-quality early childhood education and programs.

Early Childhood Education program at Risk, Early Children education Programs Mattres, Education Program Matter, The Imperiled Future: Early Childhood Education Programs at Risk In an era where education is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of societal progress, it is disconcerting to witness the precarious state of early childhood education (ECE) programs. These critical initiatives, designed to lay the foundation for a child's cognitive, social, and emotional development, find themselves teetering on the brink of jeopardy. Read More click Link. https://rb.gy/c4o38w

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It’s not just that the early childhood education sector is under-resourced and early education staff are significantly underpaid, the entire early education ecosystem is undervalued and largely ignored. Early care should be a major part of the education continuum. There is a huge gap between what research tell us vs. what actually happens. We need to better as a society in order to give children a sustainable, strong, and fair start in life. #literacyincommunity #earlychildhoodeducation #earlylearning

If this graph doesn't stop you in your tracks, we need to talk. 🧠 From birth to age 3, the brain is undergoing some of the most important developmental changes that last a lifetime. 👩💼 Without childcare, would you be at your desk working right now? What would our economy, our life, and our society be without childcare? 💕 What price would you pay for love? For the nurturing care your children, your babies, receive each day? 🎒 The early years set the foundation for life-long, academic and social success. Kindergarten readiness doesn't start the year before; it starts at birth. If all of this is true (spoiler alert: it is, research proves it) - then why (must I yell it?) is this graph the way that it is? It's time we do better, America. Our children, our caregivers, our educators deserve it - they've always deserved it. #workforcecrisis #ECE #paythemmore

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