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 \nWhy Classroom Diversity Matters in Early Education  \nJeanne L. Reid and Sharon Lynn Kagan  \nNational Center for Children and Families,Teachers College, Columbia University  \nwith Michael Hilton and Halley Potter  \nA Better Start  \nWhy Classroom Diversity Matters in Early Education  \nJeanne L . Reid and Sharon Lynn Kagan  \nNational Center for Children and Families,Teachers College, Columbia University  \nwith Michael Hilton and Halley Potter  \nApril 2015  \nThis research was supported by The Century Foundation and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and led by Jeanne L. Reid and Sharon Lynn Kagan of the National Center for Children and Families,Teachers College, Columbia University.  \nAbout the Poverty & Race Research Action Council  \nThe Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights policy organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups in 1989. PRRAC’s primary mission is to help connect advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues. PRRAC sponsors social science research, provides technical assistance, and convenes advocates and researchers around particular race and poverty issues. PRRAC also supports public education efforts, including the bimonthly newsletter/journal Poverty & Race, and the award-winning civil rights history curriculum guide, Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching (co-published with Teaching for Change) . PRRAC is a founding member of the National Coalition on School Diversity.  \nAbout The Century Foundation  \nThe Century Foundation is a progressive nonpartisan think tank. Originally known as the Twentieth Century Fund, it was founded in 1919 and initially endowed by Edward Filene, a leading Republican businessman and champion offair workplaces and employee ownership strategies, all with an eye to ensuring that economic opportunity is available to all.Today, TCF issues analyses and convenes and promotes the best thinkers and thinking across a range of public policy questions. Its work today focuses on issues of equity and opportunity in the United States, and how American values can be best sustained and advanced in a world of more diffuse power.  \nAbout the Authors  \nJeanne L. Reid is a research scientist at the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University.  \nSharon Lynn Kagan is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy and co-director of the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University and Professor Adjunct at the Child Study Center,Yale University.  \nMichael Hilton is a policy analyst at the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.  \nHalley Potter is a fellow atThe Century Foundation.  \nWe gratefully acknowledge the thoughtful review by Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy, University of California, Berkeley.  \n1  \n3  \n5  \n15  \n19  \n23  \n24  \nTable of Contents  \nExecutive Summary  \nIntroduction: A Critical Moment in Early Education  \nWhat We Know about Racial and Economic Diversity in Early Childhood Education  \nWhat Is Happening Now: Examples of Preschool Diversity  \nRecommendations for Building an Excellent, Sustainable, and Equitable Preschool System  \nConclusion  \nNotes  \n1  \nExecutive Summary  \nThe field of early childhood education is experiencing unprecedented public investment accompanied by increasing expectations for enhanced child outcomes. To achieve such outcomes, policymakers must consider the socioeconomic and racial/ethnic composition of children’s classrooms as an important component of preschool quality.  \nThis report presents the results of a review and analysis of demographic data, current research, and position statements of national early childhood organizations, emphasizing th","cbCaimyJQHtMuz86","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimyJQHtMuz86","pdf",4244044,34,"English","# Executive Summary\n## Introduction: A Critical Moment in Early Education\n## What We Know about Racial and Economic Diversity in Early Childhood Education\n## What Is Happening Now: Examples of Preschool Diversity\n## Recommendations for Building an Excellent, Sustainable, and Equitable Preschool System\n## Conclusion\n## Notes","[{\"question\":\"Why does classroom diversity matter in early education?\",\"answer\":\"The report argues that quality and equity are closely linked, and that segregated classrooms by race/ethnicity and income are rarely equal in quality.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the report find about preschool diversity in enrollment and quality?\",\"answer\":\"Demographic data show troubling racial/ethnic and economic disparities in preschool enrollment and the quality of preschool experiences children receive.\"},{\"question\":\"What policy recommendations are proposed?\",\"answer\":\"The report calls for building public and professional knowledge and advancing racially and economically diverse preschool classrooms as an important option for families with young children, alongside other recommendations for an excellent, sustainable, equitable preschool system.\"}]","A Better Start - Why Classroom Diversity Matters in Early Education | PDF",1792057874,86]