Sharing Additional Resources

As I researched additional links that I have not thoroughly tapped in to as resources, I was captivated by the website, Center for the Child Care Workforce at www.ccw.org.  This organization has a mission to improve the quality of early care and education for all children by promoting policy, research and organizing that ensure the early child care and education workforce is well educated, receives better compensation and a voice in the workforce.

This is exactly what is needed to assist in responding to the needs of children.  When those in the early care and education field are provided the right support and resources to provide quality care, then children will be provided the expected support and education that leads to the desired level of learning and development.

While on the site I came across a newsletter, “The Economics of Inequality: The Value of Early Childhood Education”, written by James J. Heckman.  His focus is the economic value of human capital development, specifically the value of providing resources to disadvantaged children and their families in an attempt to equalize the children’s possibilities for social and economic success. I like how he stands fast on the importance of starting at the initial point by investing early to close the disparities of and prevent achievement gap, or as he says we can pay to remediate disparities when they are harder and more expensive to close.

I recommend that educators take a look at this website as it provides information of why this organization began and the successful accomplishments that have taken place to make a difference for children and ensures good equitable jobs for early care and education. I have gained another resource that I can utilize to support the needs of the children, families, and all educators who play a role in the development for the continued effort to promote the need to have equity in early and education programs that reflects equality for all.