The organization that I chose to subscribe to and learn more
about is the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER). The
National Institute for Early Education Research “conducts academic research to
inform policy supporting high-quality, early education for all young children”
(2017), education that affects all developmental domains in order for children
to succeed in school throughout their life.
A current issue that I thought was interesting from the e-newsletter
was the article, Around the World on PreK
Teacher Pay. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), recently conducted a study on international compensation for PreK
teachers. The OECD recognizes early childhood education as positive
improvements for children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development. This
article shows how the qualifications for an early childhood educator continue
to increase but the teacher’s salary does not. The article also addresses how
PreK teachers make an average 52% less than kindergarten teachers. This current
issue is one that has been an issue for many years on the fact that early
childhood educators shape the minds for a child’s lifelong educational career
and yet they make pennies on the dollar to primary grade educators.
In the same
e-newsletter there is also an article, Infusing
PreK Curriculum with Tribal Culture, that discusses how early childhood
education research rarely focuses on young children in tribal communities which
hampers our understanding for the kinds of high-quality practices in American Indian
culture. This article is related to the weeks topic on demographics because it
speaks of the differences between how tribal communities are recognizing early
childhood education programs and others capacity to understand the way the
tribes approach early childhood education.
You can find these articles and more at the National
Institute for Early Education Research website here: http://nieer.org/
