Economics and ECE

05/24/2006

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Northrup Frye

In the May/June 2006 issue of Exchange, the persistent topics of scarce resources and early childhood education appear in not one, but two articles: ECE Meets Economics: The Changing World of Early Education and Care by Gwen Morgan and Suzanne Helburn, and Non Profit Child Care Outlook: After 160 Years, It’s Time to Change by Roger Neugebauer. Both articles register the frustration and anxiety over resources that exist among early educators. What is happening in today’s early childhood programs? The word that appears in both titles — change — sums up the issue. Perhaps it holds the seed of the solution.

This is how Edna Ranck opens her article, "Economics and ECE: Early Educators and Children Count," which is available for free on the home page of Exchange at http://mail.ccie.com/go/eed/1094. In this article Ranck supplies ideas and resources to enable educators better prepare for the changes ahead.

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