Shame on Scholastic!

Shame on Scholastic! As the Director of a Child Development Center and Preschool, I recently booked Scholastic to have a book fair at my Center to promote family literacy. I specifically requested that any commercialized products be excluded, as I am sick and tired of the "subtle" product placement corporations are marketing to our children. According to consumerism and economics expert Juliet Schor (The Overspent American), the average 10-year-old...

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An Invitation to Outrage

Greetings, fellow free-thinkers, I am - to borrow from the beautifully understated words of George Jackson - "positively displeased" with what is happening to our profession. Never have I been this ambivalent about the work that I do. Childhood as we once knew it is rapidly vanishing, and the voices of our leadership have been oh so quiet. In our rush to embrace "research-based", "data driven", "accountable" programs for children - we have been absolutely blind to the landslide of unintended consequences that has already arrived at the callous-free...

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EEAL Manifesto

EEAL is your Early Education Action League. If you are ready to:  Fly above typical professional development... Leap beyond the boundaries that define our practice... Smash preconceptions about who we are and what we do... Vanquish those that exploit children through marketing... If you are tired of playing nice... If you are ready to kick butt and take names  on behalf of children and childhood... If Action is your middle name... Then join our crusa...

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