Rachel Rowan

Your new Reds captain... @VirgilvDijk 🙌

Research has shown that children’s ability to manage their full range of emotions effectively, also known as self-regulation—is one of the most important factors for success in school, work, and relationships in the long term. bit.ly/3JbqXwk

That we venerate and enable elite schools to be the gatekeepers of wealth, privilege, power, prestige, social status seems equally, if not more, problematic

NC's updated Needs Assessment highlighting the needs of children, families, & providers is out! This graphic illustrates the decline of staff throughout the pandemic only to return when NC began compensation grants. #livingwage See all the data here: ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/Portals/0/docu…

@CRCarter313 @mattw009 @EvidentlyR @TimRasinski1 @42Rodgers @DoctorSam7 @plthomasEdD @GovMikeDeWine @ASCD @ILAToday @reading_league Because illiteracy is a lucrative business If anyone was serious about the literacy crisis it would mean legislation around funding universal preschool, ensuring appropriate class sizes (re: small) funding highly qualified student facing staff, and retaining highly qualified Ts

“In our constitutional order, children’s freedoms take priority over parental freedoms. Given the overriding importance of schooling to democracy, our laws elevate and protect the rights of all children to learn and to grow as citizens.” edweek.org/policy-politic…

In new study from @UW_ILABS published in @SfNJournals, researchers found that parent-infant conversational turns link to white-matter growth (myelination) at age 2, + lots more. @KCCompton reports for @EarlyLearnNatn. bit.ly/3mTjACp @LENAEarlytalk

Black toddlers with developmental delays are five times less likely than similar white children to receive early intervention services according to a study from public health researchers at Boston University. hechingerreport.org/black-and-lati…

Invest in "school choice" or teachers? PASSED: "Charter School Stimulus Fund" $400K grants to startups + increased enrollment & comparable funding REJECTED: Teacher raises (instead $2,300 that "will likely be nullified" by health ins. premium increases) mountainstatespotlight.org/2023/03/12/wv-…

If you want to enact a sweeping private school voucher program, do NOT let the people vote on it. Instead, purchase the state legislature. Here's Betsy DeVos back in 2016 foreshadowing what is playing out in [insert state] right now politico.com/tipsheets/morn…

The years of early childhood are unique and consequential in and of themselves… not just preparation for something more important to come. Failure to honor the developmental needs of young children will never be a path to better outcomes.

I love the idea that Rhianna was 'quiet quitting' the Super Bowl.

Is #SchoolChoice a "get out of jail free" card? New study shows school choice lottery win lowers likelihood of future criminality for winners, but increases likelihood for non-applicant neighbors, leading to overall INCREASE in arrests & jail time media.economics.uconn.edu/working/2023-0… #edchat

Not a great look

Every minute of this is fantastic commentary, via @briebriejoy. #CRT #BLM filmsforaction.org/watch/briahna-…

So true, this slogan has never made sense to me because in no case are vouchers "funding students." In all cases, public funds are subsidizing systems of education, either public or private, that's the choice. And if private then we are "funding moneyed interests" not public good

Whatever system(s) of education emerges from this inflection point, it will be “public” (free, open to all, democratically governed, geared toward common good) only if we meet this moment w/ a political/social movement to strengthen, not just defend, public schools. #NotTooLate

Recommended weekend listening: a case hurtling towards the Supreme Court seeks to define charter schools once and for all as private. @DrPrestonGreen and @SchlFinance101 on why this is such a big deal on.soundcloud.com/8pFqd