The central purpose of curriculum, assessment, and teaching, especially in putting them together, is to improve children's and adult's learning. Examples of this came to the author via modern communication media and are being furthered through such technology. Soon after the publication of her book "Mind in the Making" (MITM) in 2010, the author…

The results of a recent study called Ask the Children challenges current thinking on work and family life, how we talk about it, and how we behave and communicate with children. This article shares eight findings from the study and the implications of the findings for leaders in the early childhood field. (TJQ)

Reports results of the Parent/Teacher Study, which examined: (1) predictors associated with a positive or negative relationship between parents and teachers in child care settings; (2) the impact of parents' jobs on children; and (3) predictors associated with mothers' satisfaction with child care. (BB)

Outlines some of the findings from public opinion polls and surveys on how the voting public feels about child care and what the actual problems are. Also indicates studies on child care which are now in progress. (BB)

Discusses the importance and applications of problem-solving skills, especially at the preschool and early childhood levels of education. (BB)

Outlines and discusses some of the major sources of tension between employed parents and teacher-caregivers. Also provides ways in which teacher-caregivers can work effectively with parents and turn these sources of tension into sources of support. (BB)

Discusses issues of employer-supported child care; these include the growing number of companies involved with meeting employee child care needs, factors that influence company involvement, company involvement in communities versus company-created child care centers, program development, the effect on business of providing child care, and future…

Addresses a number of arguments against government involvement in child care. Advocates carefully delimiting the involvement of government in child care. (BB)

Reports on research which looked at how parents' and early childhood teachers' attitudes toward work and child care influenced their relationships with each other. (PCB)

Considers the public's growing recognition that early childhood education is good for young children. Addresses misconceptions that education and care are different and that the purpose of early childhood programs is to prepare children for school. (BG)

Discusses changes in family life, the business work place, educational institutions, and social issues that will be faced by those who raise children in the 1990s. (BB)

Care in the provider's home is the most prevalent form of child care in the United States today for children younger than five with employed mothers. This report presents key findings of the first in-depth observational study of family child care and relative care in over a decade. It identifies areas of concern and outlines policy…

Describes eight components of planning initiatives for improving the quality and delivery of early childhood education: (1) creating linkages; (2) using data in planning; (3) improving program quality; (4) developing a coordinated professional development system; (5) financing the system; (6) creating new systems of governance; (7) building public…

Maintains that historically the mission of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) has centered on overcoming the obstacles to achieving quality in early childhood programs. After recent debate, the mission statement was changed to call for facilitation of improvement of working conditions in the early childhood field.…