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A Bizarro World for Infants and Toddlers and Their Teachers

Abstract

A bizarro world reverses our everyday realities. You may be familiar with the concept if you have ever read DC Comics or watched Seinfeld.

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In the bizarro world I envision for our nation’s infants and toddlers, family income does not determine whether their parents can afford to take time off work in the first months of their lives nor their right to high quality early care and education. In every infant-toddler program, whether offered in a center or home, staff are steeped in the science of child development and early learning pedagogy, and can depend on good wages and working conditions.

Author Biography

Marcy Whitebook



MARCY began her career as an infant/toddler teacher, which taught her the importance of improving child care jobs as key to ensuring children’s right to high quality early care and education.

Joining with teachers who shared her understanding of link between child and adult well-be The decades-long fight to make child care a national priority JIPAS