Children of 2020: Creating a Better Tomorrow

BOOK LAUNCH from the COUNCIL FOR PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

National leaders lay the blueprint for the next ten years to advance early care and education

WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a new book, Children of 2020, national experts detail what needs to be done now in order to ensure that America's children achieve measurable progress in school and life.    

Published by the Council for Professional Recognition, Children of 2020 builds on research establishing that the foundation for a strong society is the care and education of young learners.  Investments in young learners are shown to prevent challenges such as repetition of grades and contact with juvenile-justice programs. Rather than continue spending great sums of money on remedial services, Children of 2020 recommends multiple improvements that families, schools and organizations can make.

Children of 2020 focus on the vision, knowledge and strategies needed in many topic areas including

• Teaching strategies that help children develop social and cognitive processes essential for success.
• Methods to positively influence children's skills for growing up in a diverse world.
• Practices that support the types of play known to enhance social-emotional and academic growth.
• Literacy instruction practices for dual-language learners and monolingual children.

The book provides realistic and practical goals over the next ten years by looking candidly at the realities of the current state of the workforce, family engagement, financial resources, bureaucratic institutions and technology.  The authors do not turn a blind eye to these challenging topics, but rather use them to fuel improvements and solutions that can and must be made.

The change that the authors propose requires making the American Dream accessible to all, regardless of race, class, or income.  It also requires all of us to raise our expectations of what is possible and to lead with an excellence that is embedded with both culturally responsive and a developmentally appropriate vision and strategy.

About Co-Editors Valora Washington and JD Andrews

Valora Washington is the president of the Board of Council for Professional Recognition and the president of the CAYL Institute in Cambridge, MA.

JD Andrews is chairman of the Council for Professional Recognition, which he helped establish in 1985.

SOURCE Council for Professional Recognition