No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education Zinsser Katherine M.
No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education Zinsser Katherine M. For over 15 years, researchers have described a crisis in our nations' early learning classrooms.…
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No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education Zinsser Katherine M.
For over 15 years, researchers have described a crisis in our nations' early learning classrooms. While policymakers have taken steps to mitigate this crisis, disparities in who is expelled persist. Hundreds of children are expelled from childcare and preschool every day; a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten-12th grade students.
Each child's expulsion is symptomatic of a larger crisis--an overburdened, underfunded, undervalued, and fragmented early education system.In early childhood, expulsion is the result of a series of adult decisions made within constrained contexts and at times blind to downstream consequences: exhausted and underpaid teachers deciding how to expend their limited attention and energy in a chaotic Boys and Black children are routinely over-represented among those pushed out of the exact environments that are supposed to help prepare them for school.