“We have to be careful that those [Common Core State] standards, particularly as they extend downward, appropriately recognize these important social, communication, and self-regulation skills that are really as critical for kids’ learning in those early and later years as whether they know the alphabet.”
Robert Pianta, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, December 2011
Eye on Early Education focuses on the twin goals of ensuring that Massachusetts children have access to high-quality early education and become proficient readers by the end of third grade.
The Common Core should extend “upward” based on the cumulative knowledge of the Early Education community, including the most current research on brain development. If only we “Ran the Zoo”.