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.
Related Content
2021
Follow Brookings podcasts here or on Apple Podcasts, send feedback email to BCP@Brookings.edu, and follow us and tweet us at @policypodcasts on Twitter.
The Brookings Cafeteria is part of the Brookings Podcast Network.
Authors
Commentary
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