Four Reasons ECE is Essential

01/04/2018

Four Reasons ECE is Essential

I think that childhood is the very first chapter in your book and if we're going to have a whole story, a whole life, then we've got to know what childhood is about.
Bev Bos, 1934-2016, preschool director and international speaker

Writing in the Art of Leadership series, Anne W. Mitchell provides four reasons why early childhood education is not just important, but essential. She frames these reasons as arguments that early childhood professionals can use to "make our case" to advocate for increased understanding about the importance of our field:

The Moral Argument (Early childhood is right for children. All children deserve a great place to be every day and great people to be with...)
The Workforce Productivity Argument (Parents need to work to support their families and they need dependable, quality programs for their children while they work...)
The Brain Research Argument (The early years of a child’s life, from the prenatal period onward, are when the brain is developing faster than any other time...)
The Return on Investment Argument (We have used the return on investment argument for a long time to argue that quality matters. The Perry Preschool and Abecedarian longitudinal research shows that high-quality early childhood programs have financial benefits much greater than their costs...)"

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