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Today, Denver Public Schools announced that it plans to make a big increase in the number of Pre-K and kindergarten programs available for 4 and 5 year olds for the 2008-2009 school year. We'll be tracking whether there is an increase in enrollment as well as the quality of the prorgrams.

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Please join us for Education 2.0: Making Our Children and Our Country More Competitive, a unique evening hosted by Hope Street Group in New York City on February 24th from 6:00pm-8:00pm at The Yale Club.  We will be featuring NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Harlem Education Activities Fund President Dr. Danielle Moss Lee to share their brief remarks about the role that education can play in our economic recovery.

 

RSVP and purchase your tickets online now.

 

Following this, attendees will have the opportunity to network with other social entrepreneurs and policy makers or join other education thought leaders in small group discussions to learn about key education reform issues in the following areas:

 

- Early Childhood Education
- Improving Education through Technology
- 21st Century Standards & Global Competitiveness

 

In addition, HSG will present attendees with hands-on opportunities nationally and locally, including professional volunteer activities at Hope Street Group and direct service volunteer opportunities at HEAF.

 

Tickets: A minimum donation of $100 is requested, although Hope Street Group welcomes additional contributions; if you cannot attend and would like to support the event, please consider sponsoring a teacher or HEAF student for the evening.

 

Space is limited, so please RSVP and purchase your tickets online now  at  or contact Courtney Haynes at Courtney@hopestreetgroup.org by Feb. 10th.

 

Hope Street Group is a non-partisan organization founded for one reason:  to build the Opportunity Economy – an economy in which anyone who works hard and invests in themselves has the opportunity to succeed, and where our nation prospers as a result. Over the last two years, Hope Street Group has successfully convened leaders from civil society, politics, and business to build broad-based coalitions and bi-partisan consensus around policies that promote an opportunity economy. As a result of these efforts, Hope Street Group offers numerous opportunities for young professionals to play substantive roles in policy discussions and development.

 

Learn more about Hope Street Group's American Dream Agenda for the next administration, and the education and health care reform proposals that the presidential campaigns incorporated into their platforms.

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Pre-K Takes Center Stage

Posted by Amanda Levinson Dec 17, 2008

After a long absence from policy discussions about education, Pre-K schooling is finally taking the limelight, largely thanks to President-Elect Obama's commitment to making early childhood education a central part of his platform. The renewed focus on early childhood education is welcome; Hope Street Group has long advocated Pre-K as a critical investment in a child's life that has economic repercussions later on.  And yet, daunting questions remain. As an article in today's New York Times points out, the current "system" of Pre-K is a patchwork of competing methodologies, privately and publicly funded programs, all of which are administered in a decidely ununiform way.

 

The two biggest questions likely to dog this policy discussion will have to do with access and quality. On the access side, how do states expand access to early childhood schooling for those who need it most? Should these programs be universal? Should they be targeted only to those who need it most? Should they be mandatory? And on the quality side, what defines a quality Pre-K program? Who sets the standards?  And what should be the role of parents?

 

Since Pre-K took center stage, there's been a lot of reflection in the media about different states' attempts to invest in early childhood education.  The blog GothamSchools, in a thoughtful analysis of NYC's efforts to expand early childhood education programs, points out that the number of children actually enrolled, while growing, is far fewer than initially anticipated. Meanwhile, states like Mississippi are launching interesting new private sector-led initiatives in an attempt to create quality universal Pre-K programs.

 

It's clearly an exciting time to be an advocate for Pre-K. Of course, the real work begins now.  With so much at stake, it's important to get our early childhood education policies right.

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