Yesterday, President-Elect Barack Obama named Arne Duncan, Chicago
schools superintendent to be hiss education secretary in the coming
administration. Duncan is behind Obama's strong support of early
childhood education programs, towards which Obama has pledged $10
billion. (As a comparison, Head Start, which serves about a million
children is a $7 billion program.) One such program for poor children
is the Chicago Educare Center. To see how children six months through
five years are spending their days in this program, check out the New York Times slides show.There
are arguments about opening free preschool programs to the
middle-class, Obama says he wants to keep the focus on the poor.
Unfortunately, it looks like more and more children
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