Sharing Web Resources- Week 6

With speaking and reading about what the President and our government can do in terms of grants and policies in making early education a priority, I focused my search on the Public Policy link on Zero to Three website. Topics under Public Policy that can be explored are: infant-toddler policy issues, building early childhood systems, federal policy, state & community policy, action center, policy toolkit and webinars & conference calls. When clicking on the federal policy portion you can learn about the federal policy agenda, resources, updates, and a federal policy baby blog. The baby blog keeps you updated on important policy developments impacting babies, toddlers, families and EC professionals. You can also review the state baby facts and see how infants, toddlers, and their families are managing across the U.S.. The action center provides access to resources in advocacy. Advocacy alerts, calendar, federal & state advocacy tools, as well as a place to meet other advocates can be found in the action center.


One of the links I haven’t clicked on yet until this week was the Rally for Babies link. This page speaks about The Strong Start Act. It speaks about supporting the Early Learning Bipartisan Bill and it acknowledging learning needs of babies and toddlers, what’s in the bill, what is in it for babies, why start with babies, and how the media is rallying for them. It is a great page with a wealth of information regarding the need for seeing children as a priority. You are also able to read the Senate and House version of the Strong Start for America’s Children Act. While looking further into the page I came across a section that speaks about the business organizations and their investments into early childhood.

I keep gaining so much more information each day while researching websites and reading articles. Zero to Three seems to provide so much information on mostly all topics that have been spoken about during this class. The reoccurring theme lately in my readings have been the interest by policy makers and businesses in the importance of early education. Our schools need the proper funding in transforming their programs into the quality that is needed in offering our children a proper early education. Our children need to be on the same level when entering Kindergarten and start shrinking the gaps.

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