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]]> http://trueslant.com/michaelsalmonowicz/2009/11/22/the-latest-national-security-threat-inadequate-early-childhood-education/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Michael Salmonowicz Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:55:19 +0000 http://trueslant.com/michaelsalmonowicz/?p=609#comment-60 Jessica - I am with you. I find it disappointing that citizens and state/federal leaders would need the threat of a weakened military to do something that has so many other benefits outside of national security. But it's not surprising. For example, increased investment in U.S. public education--specifically in math and science--in the 1950s and 1960s was due mainly to the threat of Russian military supremacy after they launched Sputnik in 1957. And in "A Nation At Risk," the famous 1983 report calling for drastic education reform, allusions to war are used in the second paragraph as a way to grab readers' attention: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament." (The full report available at http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/index.html.) The important thing for me, though, is that early childhood education is funded...no matter the reason. Jessica – I am with you. I find it disappointing that citizens and state/federal leaders would need the threat of a weakened military to do something that has so many other benefits outside of national security. But it’s not surprising. For example, increased investment in U.S. public education–specifically in math and science–in the 1950s and 1960s was due mainly to the threat of Russian military supremacy after they launched Sputnik in 1957. And in “A Nation At Risk,” the famous 1983 report calling for drastic education reform, allusions to war are used in the second paragraph as a way to grab readers’ attention: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.” (The full report available at http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/index.html.) The important thing for me, though, is that early childhood education is funded…no matter the reason.

]]> http://trueslant.com/michaelsalmonowicz/2009/11/22/the-latest-national-security-threat-inadequate-early-childhood-education/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Jessica Faye Carter Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:36:24 +0000 http://trueslant.com/michaelsalmonowicz/?p=609#comment-59 This is interesting. I hadn't thought about the implications of early childhood development on national security; I tend to think about these things in terms of how they impact individual development. But when you think about it in the aggregate, there are going to be alot of challenges ahead because of a general neglect of future generations. Food for thought. This is interesting. I hadn’t thought about the implications of early childhood development on national security; I tend to think about these things in terms of how they impact individual development. But when you think about it in the aggregate, there are going to be alot of challenges ahead because of a general neglect of future generations. Food for thought.

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