What's Going On in Preschools Today?

“Early-childhood education is the next wave of education reform,” says Joan Lombardi, director of The Children’s Project, a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan initiative to increase public, private and civic investment in children and families. Lombardi is also the facilitator for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Early Education Exchange, which recently issued the report Set for Success: Building a Strong Foundation for School Readiness Based on the Social-Emotional Development of Young Children.



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There are several driving forces behind the push to improve preschool education, according to Lombardi and Ross Thompson, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and an expert on school readiness:


• the increase in the number of two-earner and single-parent households. More than 60 percent of the 19 million U.S. children under age 5 are in some sort of out-of-home care on a regular basis;


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