Early Childhood in the News
Check out these links to recent articles coverage of early childhood issues.
“Child Poverty in West Michigan,” The Morning Show with Shelley Irwin, WGVU Radio, January 26, 2012
“Kids Count report: One in five Kent County kids lives in poverty,” Grand Rapids Press, January 24, 2012
“Home visits aim to give Kent County kids healthy start, despite report showing rising poverty,” Grand Rapids Press, January 24, 2012
“W.K. Kellogg’s $5 million grant to help kids in some Grand Rapids Neighborhoods,” Grand Rapids Press, January 21, 2012
“A poverty solution that starts with a hug,” by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, January 7, 2012
“Michigan has a great opportunity to invest in early childhood,” by Lew Chamberlin, Grand Rapids Press, December 23, 2011
“Fundamental change needed to ensure future for West Michigan children,” by Susan Broman and Matthew VanZetten, Grand Rapids Press, December 17, 2011
“Kent County urging “collective impact” strategy to achieve large-scale social change,” Grand Rapids Press, December 11, 2011
“Investing in early childhood education,” Michigan Radio, November 17, 2011
“Racial divide persists in Michigan’s infant mortality rate,” Bridge Magazine, November 10, 2011
“Office of Great Start vital to helping kids and businesses” by David Hollister, Lansing State Journal, October 31, 2011
“How much can early childhood education do to reduce income inequality?” by Tim Bartik, October 20, 2011
“Occupy the classroom” by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, October 19, 2011
“The rewards of early childhood education” by Sean Welsh, Grand Rapids Press, October 15, 2011
“Fight childhood poverty by fully funding Great Start program,” Detroit Free Press editorial, September 26, 2011
“How do children’s brains develop?”, NBC News, September 26, 2011
Economist Tim Bartik refutes the skeptics; presentation to First Steps Commission, July 14, 2011
