Obama’s Early Education Platform

I had the opportunity to talk to Jeff Capizzano from Teaching Strategies, one of the sponsors of the Big Tent. Teaching Strategies is sponsoring a room at the Big Tent called “Teacher’s Lounge” to promote Obama’s Early Education Platform.

I asked Jeff , Why Obama’s early Childhood Platform was different. His response was Obama talks about Pre-K education as a way for economic development not just education policy. Obama wants to improve the quality of the teachers at Pre-K level he wants to put more dollars behind providing more access to young Toddlers. More High quality pre-schools for young kids.

Jeff also pointed out the work done by the Nobel Prize Winner Jim Heckman, who has done research that shows that if you invest in young children you get successful adults.

In the teachers lounge I also met with a delegate Rita Ferrandino who is promoting STEM (Science , Technology, Education, Mathematics) . She and Kevin Custer have a fund called Arc Capital Development to fund educational companies. She is also promoting www.dnceducation.com