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		<title>Aligning Early Education with the Common Core</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across the country, early educators face questions about how best to align early childhood programs with the academic rigor of the Common Core State Standards adopted by 46 states (including Massachusetts) and the District of Columbia. The answer, experts say, lies in developmentally appropriate practice and understanding what research tells us about how young children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4622&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the February EEC Board Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dept. of Early Education and Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care last week unanimously approved a measure to align the Massachusetts Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) grant program with the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) that the commonwealth launched in January 2011. (See UPK-QRIS PowerPoint.) The board also approved the annual report to the Legislature from the Department of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4610&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Early Education &amp; Care Fares in Obama’s Budget</title>
		<link>http://eyeonearlyeducation.org/2012/02/21/how-early-education-care-fares-in-obamas-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fiscal year 2013 federal budget that President Obama released last week contains cause for at least cautious optimism, as summarized by the National Institute for Early Education Research, CLASP, the National Women’s Law Center and the First Five Years Fund. “Early education,” says NIEER, “is clearly an administration priority, though perhaps not as high [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4598&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Quotes</title>
		<link>http://eyeonearlyeducation.org/2012/02/17/in-quotes-42/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I work with preschoolers. They sort colored beads, sequence a story they just heard, make elaborate designs with pattern blocks, and figure out how to equitably divide cars with their friends. We know they are learning important math concepts. They call it playing.” Kathleen Klofft, Letter, Boston Globe Magazine, February 12, 2012<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4594&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Build on the Momentum Created by the Early Learning Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[MA state budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several months, I have been contributing Voices/Perspectives columns to the website of CommonWealth Magazine, a leading policy journal in Massachusetts. My latest, copied below, looks at the federal Early Learning Challenge grant recently awarded to Massachusetts as an opportunity to leverage increased state investments in fiscal year 2013: When Governor Deval Patrick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4586&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds Press MA Legislators to Fund Early Education and Care</title>
		<link>http://eyeonearlyeducation.org/2012/02/15/hundreds-press-ma-legislators-to-fund-early-education-and-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Early educators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MA Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MA state budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than 400 early educators and advocates, many of them dressed in red, gathered at the Massachusetts State House yesterday to urge legislators to include funds for increased compensation and other line items related to early education and care in the fiscal year 2013 budget. Speaker after speaker noted that early educators are meeting the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4572&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Seuss’s First Book Turns 75</title>
		<link>http://eyeonearlyeducation.org/2012/02/14/dr-seusss-first-book-turns-75/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading proficiency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist Michael Winerip counts himself among the legions of Dr. Seuss fans. So he celebrated the 75th anniversary of the publication of “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” – Dr. Seuss’s first book – by visiting the real Mulberry Street in Springfield. Dr. Seuss, nee Theodor Seuss Geisel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4564&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Credit for Accreditation</title>
		<link>http://eyeonearlyeducation.org/2012/02/13/credit-for-accreditation-18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accreditation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today we offer our monthly congratulations to the center- and school-based early education programs in Massachusetts that earned accreditation or reaccreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children in January. To those who earned accreditation or reaccreditation, NAEYC offers a marketing and communications tip: Spread the word to your local newspaper or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4553&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Quotes</title>
		<link>http://eyeonearlyeducation.org/2012/02/10/in-quotes-41/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Many problems of education are very complex, and the right solutions are not immediately apparent. In contrast, reading for every child is dead simple. Solutions are known. Wouldn&#8217;t it make sense to focus attention on this critical, solvable problem?” Robert Slavin, Hopkins Center for Research and Reform in Education, “No More Excuses: We Can Get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4548&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toy Building Blocks Enjoy a Comeback</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Sege</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmentally appropriate practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good old-fashioned blocks, those smooth rectangles and squares that become fanciful structures in children’s hands, are enjoying a resurgence. The New York Times, citing a growing realization that something valuable is lost when there’s no time for play time, finds a renewed interest in blocks is “sweeping through some elite swaths of New York’s education [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeonearlyeducation.org&amp;blog=13332397&amp;post=4542&amp;subd=eyeonearlyeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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