Arne Duncan and Roy Bostock Call for National Policy to Include Preschool
The former U.S. Secretary of Education and Vice Chairman of Delta Airlines support an amendment to ESEA, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Arne Duncan, the (then current) U.S. Secretary of Education, and Roy Bostock, vice-chairman of the board of Delta Air Lines and member of ReadyNation’s CEO Task Force on Early Childhood, [wrote a joint oped in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2015/04/16/arne-duncan-and-deltaairlines-leader-call-for-national-policy-to-include-preschool/) about the importance of including preschool in national policy. Calling for the support of an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Duncan and Bostock discussed the moral reasons, research findings, and economic outcomes that support the inclusion of quality early childhood programs in ESEA.
To prepare children for their future, public education can no longer mean just kindergarten through senior year of high school. It must reflect the real, scientific understanding that learning begins long before age 5.