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Child Care Has Shifted: Are We Ready for the Future?
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- December 17
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3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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CGLR has recently focused two sessions on Dan Wuori’s book, The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It). The October session explored the book’s assertion that the United States is long overdue for policy change to address issues resulting in inaccessible and unaffordable infant and toddler care. The November session reviewed state policies that are addressing the “three legged stool” of early care issues: affordability, quality and workforce development/retention. These discussions, along with many other current national conversations, illuminate how the field of early care and education is experiencing a period of significant shifts. Changes to the labor market, increased understanding of the science of early childhood and the visibility of the child care crisis present an opportunity to interrogate and reimagine child care.
Join us on December 17, from 3–4:30 p.m. ET, when we will engage Marica Cox Mitchell of the Bainum Family Foundation in a discussion about what it will take to reimagine how we define child care, who child care serves and who funds and regulates child care. We will be joined by early childhood educators, administrators and policy experts representing diverse settings and child care options who will respond to what Mitchell elevates and share their perspectives on how child care can better meet the needs of young children and their families.
Together, we will address the following questions:
- What is the future of child care? Are we ready?
- What do we need to rethink as we lean into this child care shift?
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