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Today, I’m revisiting a post from 2016, which I wrote at the beginning of last year’s read along, Rae Pica’s book, What if Everybody Understood Child Development? (*affiliate link). (You can check out that read along here.) In the post, I shared some striking contradictions I’d notice as I’d been going over a few different pieces of research from early childhood settings. Contradictions between what we know young children need, and the trends toward what we were actually delivering in early childhood settings.
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Find the full text: A Tale of Two Studies: What We Know About Children and What We Do