As students return to schools across the country, this episode of the Brookings Cafeteria features a rebroadcast of a recent online event from the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings on the present and future of early childhood education in the U.S. in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brookings scholar Jon Valant, director of the Brown Center, moderated a panel discussion with Miriam Calderon, deputy assistant secretary for policy and early learning at the U.S. Department of Education; Jenna Conway, the deputy superintendent of early childhood education in the Virginia Department of Education, and Christina Weiland, associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan.
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PodcastChallenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19
Jon Valant,
Jon Valant
Director
- Brown Center on Education Policy,
Senior Fellow
- Governance Studies
@JonValant
Miriam Calderon,
Miriam Calderon
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy and Early Learning
- Office of Elementary and Second Education, U.S. Department of Education
Jenna Conway, and
Jenna Conway
Deputy Superintendent, Division of Early Childhood Education
- Virginia Department of Education
Christina Weiland
Christina Weiland
Associate Professor, School of Education
- University of Michigan
@weilanch
September 3, 2021