Sharing Web Resources

Just this week I felt grateful to be a member of naeyc. The information provided on their website, journals and new letters are priceless! This week my attention was immediately grabbed by an article titled " A Call for excellence in Early Childhood Education". The topic was about the lack of funding provided to early education. NAEYC admonished policy makers, to invest in early education now, or be sorry later. I thought to myself "Wow", that's a good way to put it. From the articles this week, it does not appear, that educators are too confident in our policy makers. My prayer is that they would put the money where their mouth is. We know from evidenced based research all of the benefits of a quality early childhood environment. " A fair budjet and reduced deficit are important, but those goals should be met without making dramatic cuts to child care, Head start, education, nutrition programs, or other basic needs of low and moderate income children and their families"(naeyc, n.d.). The insight I have gained from exploring the website, was the responsibility I have, as an educator to write my representative and local new paper editors, about the rights of children and their families. If we choose to ignore the warning signs of children denied quality care and education , because of a lack of revenue, we are just as guilty as those who made the decision to cut education spending in the first place!    

 What about the children?