The Children’s
Defense Fund
As I search
through the website one link that caught my attention is the Multimedia and
News column. Under this section you can
gain information on varies topics that have been published in varies newspapers
and columns around the United States.
One article that caught my attention was published in the Huffington
Post, February 2011 was titled, Law of Unintended Consequences. I liked this article because it discussed the
short comings o f the No Child Left Behind Act.
It described the inequality of the initiatives that surrounded the NCLB
act. The website has a section, Public
Priorities that has a section dedicated to Early Childhood Education and Care.
New
Data on Early Childhood Education and Care
The State of America's Children® 2012, a
compilation of the most recent and reliable national and state-by-state data on
key child indicators, including early childhood education and care. Among other
selections, the Early Childhood section of the report includes state data Head
Start enrollment, the cost of child care and child care subsidies, the Child
and Dependent Care Tax Credit, the Child Care and Development Fund, Pre-K
enrollment, and state-by-state comparisons of child care center regulations.
Only 3 percent of eligible infants and toddlers are able to secure spots in
Early Head Start due to limited funding. Learn more about what our failure to
invest in children in the early years means for all of us through our "Be Careful What You Cut” campaign". (http://www.childrensdefense.org/policy-priorities/early-childhood-education-care/.
Through this website I have gained a better
understanding of issues related to children of all ages, policies and how the
different initiatives effects the programs funding, and different social issues
that relate to the development and care of children and their families.
