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Exchange just had the opportunity to attend the “Economic Summit on Early Childhood Investment” in Telluride, Colorado, organized by the Partnership for America’s Economic Success, Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Telluride Foundation. Among the 100 attendees were three governors, two mayors, business leaders, foundation representatives, economists, and early childhood professionals. In the rarefied mountain air, among this high octane audience, talk of investing in children was at a fever pitch.And, after that the World Forum Foundation, working with Economic Opportunities Institute, led a delegation of business people, politicians, and educators from the state of Washington on a Gates Foundation-funded study tour to the United Kingdom and Finland to inform the development of an exciting state initiative to improve early childhood education.
Events such as these give one hope that we may finally turn the corner and, as a nation, devote the necessary resources for assuring promising futures for all children. The early childhood field now has friends in high places �" places of governance, commerce, research, and philanthropy.
Our friends are helping bring significant new money into our field �" money for bold state Pre-K initiatives. The movers and shakers behind these initiatives are indeed good people with only ...