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Walden-Glenn. \"How do you explain that to your child?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walden-Glenn is a mother of 12 and the executive servant leader for VOICE – a social activism group in Buffalo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she learned of the shooting spree Saturday that left 10 Black people dead, and an additional three victims injured, her thoughts immediately went to how she could support her community, including her children, ages 13 to 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When NPR spoke with Walden-Glenn on Monday, she said her middle school-aged children did not go to school that day. The emotional burden, she said, was too much for children to be expected to deal with in a classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We went through such a violent violation, and we are so shaken,\" she said. \"I don't understand how it feels as though it's expected to go on with life as normal when there is nothing normal about what we just encountered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrell Ford also works at VOICE. He is the father of two young boys, who he said are too young to completely process the magnitude of Saturday's attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think they fully understand until they get a little bit older and start to see the world for what it truly is,\" Ford said. \"And that's the risk we run exposing them to the dark side of the world so early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife took the opportunity, as we discussed, to talk to them, to let them know that there's people out here that will target you based on the color of your skin, and to be vigilant all the time, even though they're so young.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the attack, Ford, who is Black, said he and his wife have discussed getting a gun. He said the shooting has stirred up a redoubled a sense of protectionism toward his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The war on black and brown bodies is real, and we don't know when the next occasion will happen,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-59411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/05/img_5325-6245152107a005c84deff7730eee2bc3f0dd27f0-scaled-e1653031941406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers at a memorial at the scene of the shooting. \u003ccite>(Alana Wise/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a Tuesday vigil on the block where the Tops supermarket stands, still cordoned off with yellow police tape, strangers came together to pray, sing and support one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danielle Wisinski was there with her two teenage daughters. They had dropped off flowers at the vigil. Balloons and other commemorations of the lives lost were piled high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wisinski, who is white, struggled through tears as she explained how she and her husband sought to raise their children to view everybody as equal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm just honest with them – my husband and I always have been,\" she said. \"We teach them that we are all one human race, and things like this should not happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her two daughters, 19-year-old Julia and 17-year-old Sarah, said they were shocked that someone so young could have been so radicalized to carry out such violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just awful that so many young people can be influenced like this to do bad things,\" Julia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sister, Sarah, said, \"It was really infuriating to me that it could happen so close to where I live.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their confusion was echoed by 5-year-old Alina, who was at the Tuesday vigil with her parents and younger sister, helping to distribute food and diapers alongside the family's church group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We actually just spoke to her before we came,\" said Candice Erni, her mother. \"Didn't fully get into details, but just let her know that an individual hurt a lot of people within a grocery store. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/18/1093277449/florida-mathematics-textbooks\">Math textbooks axed\u003c/a> for their treatment of race; a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/19/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media/\">viral Twitter account\u003c/a> directing ire at LGBTQ teachers; a state law \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089462508/teachers-fear-the-chilling-effect-of-floridas-so-called-dont-say-gay-law\">forbidding classroom discussion\u003c/a> of sexual identity in younger grades; a board book for babies \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2022/04/22/banned-books-everywhere-babies/\">targeted as \"pornographic.\"\u003c/a> Lately it seems there's a new controversy erupting every day over how race, gender or history are tackled in public school classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for most parents, these concerns seem to be far from top of mind. That's according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/NPR-Ipsos-Parent-Child-Education-04282022\">a new national poll by NPR and Ipsos\u003c/a>. By wide margins – and regardless of their political affiliation – parents express satisfaction with their children's schools and what is being taught in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nationally representative poll of 1,007 parents of school-aged children follows up on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/05/973373489/npr-ipsos-poll-nearly-one-third-of-parents-may-stick-with-remote-learning\">a similar survey\u003c/a> NPR and Ipsos conducted about a year ago. In both polls, parents answered questions about the impact of the pandemic on their children, academically and socially, and about their schools' performance during this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's responses showed positive trends as the nation continues to recover from the worst of the pandemic. Compared to 2021, a growing margin of parents say their child is \"ahead\" when it comes to math, reading, social skills, and mental health and well-being. Fewer parents say their child is \"behind\" in those areas. In fact, in 2022, almost half of parents, 47%, agree with the statement: \"the pandemic has not disrupted my child's education.\" That's up from 38% in 2021, and is a view at odds with that of most education researchers, who see big disruptions in indicators like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/15/1086054482/covid-school-shutdown-biggest-impacts\">test scores\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers-\">college attendance\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094781782/preschool-enrollment-pandemic\">preschool enrollment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Education is a concern, but most parents say their own kids' school is doing well\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For decades, voters have \u003ca href=\"https://pdkpoll.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021PollPressRelease.pdf\">expressed\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/354083/parents-remain-largely-satisfied-child-education.aspx\">concern\u003c/a> in polls about the state of K-12 education in the U.S. But when you zoom in closer, parents seem to \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/354083/parents-remain-largely-satisfied-child-education.aspx\">like their own kids' school\u003c/a>, and they like their kids' teachers even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's true in the NPR/Ipsos poll as well. Parents named education as their top concern after inflation and crime/gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, 88% of respondents agree \"my child's teacher(s) have done the best they could, given the circumstances around the pandemic.\" And 82% agree \"my child's school has handled the pandemic well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parents feel well-informed about curricula, even when there's controversy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That satisfaction extends to hot-button topics. In the poll, 76% of respondents agree that \"my child's school does a good job keeping me informed about the curriculum, including potentially controversial topics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really is a pretty vocal minority that is hyper-focused on parental rights and decisions around curriculum,\" observes Mallory Newall of Ipsos, which conducted the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 18% of parents say their child's school taught about gender and sexuality in a way that clashed with their family's values; just 19% say the same about race and racism; and just 14% feel that way about U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine, a mother in Wisconsin who participated in the poll, is a member of that vocal minority. She asked not to use her last name because she says she's afraid of her child being retaliated against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine, who is white, says her son's teacher has made \"snarky comments about white privilege. \" She also doesn't approve of her son, who is in high school, being asked what pronouns he prefers to use. Switching to a different school or district would be tough for their family, so, Christine says, \"hopefully we can do enough countereducation at home to have it not be detrimental to [his] growth and development.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>There is a striking lack of partisan divides in the poll responses\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As a pollster, Newall at Ipsos says big partisan divides are \"all I see on every topic right now.\" She was struck by the relative lack of them in this poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine is the type of discontented parent who's most often reflected in the headlines: a cultural conservative. Yet in our poll, the minority of parents who were unhappy with how their school tackled racism and U.S. history were just as likely to identify as Democrats as Republicans. In other words: For every parent who thinks their child's school is too \"woke,\" there may be one who thinks it isn't woke enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Ondelacy is a Native American and a Democrat living in North Richland Hills, Texas, outside Fort Worth. He wishes his son's high school went more in depth and taught more about the nation's history of racism and oppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more of a water-down effect ... [the teachers] kind of whitewash the way that history is taught to their kids,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants the school to teach about the French and Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, and about slavery during the Revolutionary War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They understand what's happening with Black Lives Matter ... but they don't really understand where it came from and how it started,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most partisan issue in our poll was gender and sexuality, but still only a minority expressed any concerns. Republicans are closely divided: 26% say schools are not teaching about gender and sexuality in a way that matches their family's values, while 22% say schools are (the remainder don't know or say schools aren't addressing those topics).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Democrats, a third agree with their school's approach to gender and sexuality, while only 11% disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taryn Chatel, in Belmont, Mich., is the mother of a kindergartner, and has a family friend who is transgender. She's hoping the school will introduce the idea of gender diversity, so it's not all on her as a parent. \"I really hope the district can get behind a way of implementing this,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The silent majority of parents is unconcerned\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Republican governors like Ron DeSantis in Florida and Glenn Youngkin in Virginia have helped make \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073180200/youngkin-sears-inauguration-republicans-gop-virginia\">parents' rights\u003c/a> into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089462508/teachers-fear-the-chilling-effect-of-floridas-so-called-dont-say-gay-law\">major political talking point\u003c/a>, and Republican-aligned groups like No Left Turn In Education and Parents Defending Education have continuously \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/21/1087000890/book-bans-and-the-threat-of-censorship-rev-up-political-activism-in-the-suburbs\">pushed these issues into the spotlight.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.corporategenomeproject.org/people\">Ralph Wilson\u003c/a>, a researcher who studies how partisan donors back the culture war, says these groups imply that they represent a silent majority of conservative-leaning parents. But that's not necessarily the case, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's definitely an incredibly small minority that's being amplified with this large, well-funded infrastructure to appear larger and to appear to have more well-founded concerns than they do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, in our poll, about a third of parents say they \"don't know\" how their child's school addresses sexuality, gender identity, racism or patriotism. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's true in the NPR/Ipsos poll as well. Parents named education as their top concern after inflation and crime/gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, 88% of respondents agree \"my child's teacher(s) have done the best they could, given the circumstances around the pandemic.\" And 82% agree \"my child's school has handled the pandemic well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parents feel well-informed about curricula, even when there's controversy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That satisfaction extends to hot-button topics. In the poll, 76% of respondents agree that \"my child's school does a good job keeping me informed about the curriculum, including potentially controversial topics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really is a pretty vocal minority that is hyper-focused on parental rights and decisions around curriculum,\" observes Mallory Newall of Ipsos, which conducted the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 18% of parents say their child's school taught about gender and sexuality in a way that clashed with their family's values; just 19% say the same about race and racism; and just 14% feel that way about U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine, a mother in Wisconsin who participated in the poll, is a member of that vocal minority. She asked not to use her last name because she says she's afraid of her child being retaliated against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine, who is white, says her son's teacher has made \"snarky comments about white privilege. \" She also doesn't approve of her son, who is in high school, being asked what pronouns he prefers to use. Switching to a different school or district would be tough for their family, so, Christine says, \"hopefully we can do enough countereducation at home to have it not be detrimental to [his] growth and development.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>There is a striking lack of partisan divides in the poll responses\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As a pollster, Newall at Ipsos says big partisan divides are \"all I see on every topic right now.\" She was struck by the relative lack of them in this poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine is the type of discontented parent who's most often reflected in the headlines: a cultural conservative. Yet in our poll, the minority of parents who were unhappy with how their school tackled racism and U.S. history were just as likely to identify as Democrats as Republicans. In other words: For every parent who thinks their child's school is too \"woke,\" there may be one who thinks it isn't woke enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Ondelacy is a Native American and a Democrat living in North Richland Hills, Texas, outside Fort Worth. He wishes his son's high school went more in depth and taught more about the nation's history of racism and oppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more of a water-down effect ... [the teachers] kind of whitewash the way that history is taught to their kids,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants the school to teach about the French and Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, and about slavery during the Revolutionary War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They understand what's happening with Black Lives Matter ... but they don't really understand where it came from and how it started,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most partisan issue in our poll was gender and sexuality, but still only a minority expressed any concerns. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\">\u003cstrong>Updated March 25, 2022 at 4:20 PM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Let's be real: being a working parent can be really hard! Whether you have one kid or seven, caring for a human while trying to maintain relationships at work and at home is \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> to juggle. For so many parents and caregivers it just feels like there isn't enough time in the day to get it all done – or done well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daisy Dowling is a career coach and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.workparent.com/book\">\u003cem>Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She says parents can rewrite the story of being a working parent by taking charge of the mental picture they have of what it means and what it requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That picture could include how our own parents operated as working parents, what we see on social media or the way our colleagues talk about parenting. Then, we can take a step back and set our own parameters based on our current reality instead of responding to outside pressures. .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowling shares actionable tips to help you reset your mindset and reclaim your time:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Take control of your time with these 4 tips\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Do a calendar audit \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a way to win yourself back some time by looking at how you're already using your time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grab your calendar and a red pen (real or virtual) and look at all the obligations you had scheduled last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start circling entries you could have stepped away from or even said no to. You're not going to suddenly free up 25 percent of your calendar, but you'll find some themes and through lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe your kids are old enough to throw the laundry in the wash. Maybe you could spend less time perfecting your emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the audit is done use those insights and apply them to next week's calendar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Try timeboxing \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also known as \"containment,\" timeboxing is a way to break up daily tasks into smaller pieces so you're not spending all day on them. For example, set a timer for 25 minutes to do housework. When the buzzer rings, you're done. Maybe you will have only made a dent. But in the working parent world, a dent is plenty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Set rules for yourself that you don't have to think about \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make room in your week to tap into things that fill your tank instead of draining it. One example Dowling uses is taking a break from work on Saturdays. It's the time she uses to go do things that bring her joy, and give her a chance to relax. Dowling says once she made the decision to try and protect her Saturdays, she was no longer bargaining and negotiating with herself on what she needed to get done and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Try taking a \"Microbreak\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A microbreak is 10 to 15 minutes where you say to yourself, \"I'm not going to do anything that's 'productive' right now.\" That means not folding laundry or reading work messages or whatever it is. Instead, choose something you find enjoyable and restorative, like taking a walk, just sitting with your thoughts or calling a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Build your village: the 8-C tool\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We all have different levels of resources, and different types of help we can access. But by remembering these eight Cs from Dowling's book, we can find a few people in our lives we can ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Career\u003c/strong>: Is there a manager who can extend a bit of informal flexibility, or a mentor who can share their experience and provide you some feedback?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Colleagues\u003c/strong>: You interact with them day-in and day-out. Do you know someone who can give you a pep talk when you're dragging through the day, or weighed down bythe load you're carrying as a working parent?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Corporate\u003c/strong>: Does your employer provide an employee assistance program (EAP)? An EAP is usually designed to help employees who may need extra support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Care\u003c/strong>: Can you think of additional people who can help share the load of daily or weekly tasks? Maybe you can ask for help from a friend or family member to watch your kids while you go to therapy, or just to have some quiet time at home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Computer: \u003c/strong>Technology can be a great resource for coordinating childcare! Can you put all of the carpool logistics in an app to streamline who is picking your kids from school or helping them get to and from an activity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clinical support\u003c/strong>: Could a pediatrician or other medical professional (maybe a nurse practitioner) share some advice on how to improve bedtime routines or reduce tantrums?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Couple or co-parent\u003c/strong>: This can include a grandparent, spouse or partner (current or former). Are there different ways to rebalance the load to take some items off your plate in order to help you not be so depleted at the end of the day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community\u003c/strong>: Are you a member of a faith community that can help bolster you? Maybe you have a neighbor who can help make sure the kids get home safe from the bus after school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're resisting the idea of asking for help, ask yourself, \"Why?\" Break through that resistance and think about one person you could reach out over the next week – and do it. Dowling wants us to remember that we can be the architects of our support network to make it as robust and well-functioning as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this is all a process. You'll have to reevaluate as you go. But you've got this.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The podcast portion of this story was produced by Janet W. Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We'd love to hear from you. If you have a good life hack, leave us a voicemail at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"tel:2022169823\">\u003cem>202-216-9823\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> or email us at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"mailto:LifeKit@npr.org\">\u003cem>LifeKit@npr.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. 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For example, set a timer for 25 minutes to do housework. When the buzzer rings, you're done. Maybe you will have only made a dent. But in the working parent world, a dent is plenty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Set rules for yourself that you don't have to think about \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make room in your week to tap into things that fill your tank instead of draining it. One example Dowling uses is taking a break from work on Saturdays. It's the time she uses to go do things that bring her joy, and give her a chance to relax. Dowling says once she made the decision to try and protect her Saturdays, she was no longer bargaining and negotiating with herself on what she needed to get done and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Try taking a \"Microbreak\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A microbreak is 10 to 15 minutes where you say to yourself, \"I'm not going to do anything that's 'productive' right now.\" That means not folding laundry or reading work messages or whatever it is. Instead, choose something you find enjoyable and restorative, like taking a walk, just sitting with your thoughts or calling a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Build your village: the 8-C tool\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We all have different levels of resources, and different types of help we can access. But by remembering these eight Cs from Dowling's book, we can find a few people in our lives we can ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Career\u003c/strong>: Is there a manager who can extend a bit of informal flexibility, or a mentor who can share their experience and provide you some feedback?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Colleagues\u003c/strong>: You interact with them day-in and day-out. 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In order to help children have the tools to navigate a sometimes unkind world, Moyer went in search of ways to counteract the forces that drag us down. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we consciously raise our kids to be kind, she argues, we ensure that they will thrive – and that “they’ll build a better, fairer, stronger world in the process,” said Moyer, who wrote about her discoveries in her book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Raise-Kids-Arent-Assholes-Parenting/dp/0593086937\">“How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t A**holes: Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting\u003c/a>.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The Link Between Kindness and Emotional Literacy\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we want to raise kind kids, we have to attend to their emotional development. “I was really surprised by the research on this,” said Moyer. “Over and over again, I saw studies that pointed out that just talking about feelings – allowing kids to have their feelings – is an important foundation for the development of generosity.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emotional self-awareness is a building block for empathy, as is talking with kids about the link between their actions and another person’s reactions. “In order to be kind and helpful to someone else, you have to first be able to perceive what another person is feeling – and how what you do can directly affect another person’s state of mind,” said Moyer. “Help kids understand that there is a direct connection between what we do and what other people feel.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This practical empathy can help kids avoid hurting others, and it can also help them reach out proactively. For children, this might look like pausing to think: ‘My friend seems sad. Maybe there’s something I can do to help them not feel as sad.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research points to the efficacy of a disciplinary approach known as induction, in which caregivers explain how children’s actions affect other people. As Moyer explains, it’s the difference between saying, “Don’t hit” and saying “Hitting isn’t okay because it hurts your brother, and that’s why he’s sad right now”; or between “pick up your Legos” and “Please pick up your Legos because otherwise I’m going to step on one and it’s really going to hurt.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When parents and teachers simply say “don’t do that,” we miss an opportunity to help kids connect the dots. “Why are we asking them to stop? 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Your actions are powerful and can be used in very, very good ways.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Kindness, Bullying, and Upstanding\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When parents regularly talk with kids about what kindness looks like and how their actions affect others, they raise kids who are less likely to bully and more likely to stand up for others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parents often underestimate their child’s capacity to be mean. For example, in one study out of the University of New Hampshire, 31 percent of fifth graders admitted to teasing or picking on other kids. But only 11 percent of parents believed their child engaged in such activity – including only two percent of the parents whose children admitted to teasing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There’s this bias in the way we perceive our kids,” said Moyer, “We are always worried about what other kids are going to do to our kids, rather than what our kids might do to other kids.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s helpful for parents and educators to recognize that bullying is a continuum and that a child’s role may vary from day to day – from aggressor, to bystander, to target. Even the kindest child might laugh along to a mean joke one day. This grey area highlights the need for clear, open conversations about what bullying is, the many forms it takes, and why it’s not okay for them to engage in this behavior. “We assume that kids know what bullying is and what it looks like, but the research suggests that there are lots of kids who just don’t get how teasing someone makes that person feel.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, raising kids who don’t bully is a minimum standard. We also want to help our children be the type of people who stand up for others. 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You're making our house look nicer, and you're making it so that we have clean dishes for breakfast tomorrow. So it's really helpful for the entire family.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While adults may feel that statements like this are pointing out the obvious, we have to remember that kids are at different stages of their development – and that kindness is a character trait that takes both practice and intellectual understanding. “Sometimes, as parents, we expect and assume that our kids understand things that we haven’t made explicit,” said Moyer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, speaking to children about their influence on the family is a sign of respect. According to Moyer, it tells them, “You really matter. What you do really affects others. Your actions are powerful and can be used in very, very good ways.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Kindness, Bullying, and Upstanding\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When parents regularly talk with kids about what kindness looks like and how their actions affect others, they raise kids who are less likely to bully and more likely to stand up for others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parents often underestimate their child’s capacity to be mean. For example, in one study out of the University of New Hampshire, 31 percent of fifth graders admitted to teasing or picking on other kids. But only 11 percent of parents believed their child engaged in such activity – including only two percent of the parents whose children admitted to teasing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There’s this bias in the way we perceive our kids,” said Moyer, “We are always worried about what other kids are going to do to our kids, rather than what our kids might do to other kids.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s helpful for parents and educators to recognize that bullying is a continuum and that a child’s role may vary from day to day – from aggressor, to bystander, to target. Even the kindest child might laugh along to a mean joke one day. This grey area highlights the need for clear, open conversations about what bullying is, the many forms it takes, and why it’s not okay for them to engage in this behavior. “We assume that kids know what bullying is and what it looks like, but the research suggests that there are lots of kids who just don’t get how teasing someone makes that person feel.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, raising kids who don’t bully is a minimum standard. We also want to help our children be the type of people who stand up for others. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dale Farran has been studying early childhood education for half a century. Yet her most \u003ca href=\"https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-18712-001\">recent scientific publication \u003c/a>has made her question everything she thought she knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really has required a lot of soul-searching, a lot of reading of the literature to try to think of what were plausible reasons that might account for this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by \"this,\" she means the outcome of a study that lasted more than a decade. It included 2,990 low-income children in Tennessee who applied to free, public prekindergarten programs. Some were admitted by lottery, and the others were rejected, creating the closest thing you can get in the real world to a randomized, controlled trial — the gold standard in showing causality in science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farran and her co-authors at Vanderbilt University followed both groups of children all the way through sixth grade. At the end of their first year, the kids who went to pre-K scored higher on school readiness — as expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b; font-weight: 400;\">But after third grade, \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"font-weight: 400;\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/09/29/444217919/the-tennessee-pre-k-debate-spinach-vs-easter-grass\">they were doing worse than the control group.\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b; font-weight: 400;\"> And at the end of sixth grade, they were doing even \u003c/span>\u003cem style=\"color: #2b2b2b; font-weight: 400;\">worse.\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b; font-weight: 400;\"> They had lower test scores, were more likely to be in special education, and were more likely to get into trouble in school, including serious trouble like suspensions.\u003c/span>\"Whereas in third grade we saw negative effects on one of the three state achievement tests, in sixth grade we saw it on all three — math, science and reading,\" says Farran. \"In third grade, where we had seen effects on one type of suspension, which is minor violations, by sixth grade we're seeing it on both types of suspensions, both major and minor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's right. A statewide public pre-K program, taught by licensed teachers, housed in public schools, had a measurable and statistically significant \u003cem>negative\u003c/em> effect on the children in this study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farran hadn't expected it. She didn't like it. But her study design was unusually strong, so she couldn't easily explain it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is still the only randomized controlled trial of a statewide pre-K, and I know that people get upset about this and don't want it to be true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Why it's a bad time for bad news\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's a bad time for early childhood advocates to get bad news about public pre-K. Federally funded universal prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds has been a cornerstone of President Biden's social agenda, and there are talks about resurrecting it from the stalled-out \"Build Back Better\" plan. Preschool has been expanding in recent years and is currently publicly funded to some extent in 46 states. About 7 in 10 4-year-olds now attend some kind of academic program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/02/09/ljohnson-pre-k-spot2_custom-196d891974d6add118172f56750cd1cb93cd9941-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"Child seated at desk\" width=\"1200\" height=\"681\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LA Johnson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This enthusiasm has rested in part on research going back to the 1970s. Economist James Heckman won the Nobel Prize for research showing substantial long-term returns on investment for specially \u003ca href=\"https://youth.gov/content/perry-preschool-project#:~:text=The%20goal%20of%20the%20Perry,%2C%20social%2C%20and%20physical%20development.\">designed\u003c/a> and carefully\u003ca href=\"https://abc.fpg.unc.edu/abecedarian-project\"> implemented\u003c/a> programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it crudely, policymakers and experts have touted for decades now that if you give a 4-year-old who is growing up in poverty a good dose of story time and block play, they'll be more likely to grow up to become a high-earning, productive citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What went wrong in Tennessee\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No study is the last word. The research on pre-K continues to be mixed. In May 2021, a working paper (not yet peer reviewed) came out that looked at \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/18/997501946/the-case-for-universal-pre-k-just-got-stronger\">Boston's pre-K program.\u003c/a> The study was a similar size to Farran's, used a similar quasi-experimental design based on random assignment, and also followed up with students for years. This study found that the preschool kids had better disciplinary records and were much more likely to graduate from high school, take the SATs and go to college, though their test scores didn't show a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farran believes that, with a citywide program, there's more opportunity for quality control than in her statewide study. Boston's program spent more per student, and it also was mixed-income, whereas Tennessee's program is for low-income kids only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what went wrong in Tennessee? Farran has some ideas — and they challenge almost everything about how we do school. How teachers are prepared, how programs are funded and where they are located. Even something as simple as where the bathrooms are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, Farran is rethinking her own preconceptions, which are an entire field's preconceptions, about what constitutes quality pre-K.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do kids in poverty deserve the same teaching as rich kids?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"One of the biases that I hadn't examined in myself is the idea that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/01/615188051/lets-stop-talking-about-the-30-million-word-gap\">poor children need a different sort of preparation\u003c/a> from children of higher-income families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/02/09/ljohnson-pre-k-spot_custom-9ecfbcca9e4c4cc75ae86ccd091677b9c5d56ab3-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"Two children playing in a stream\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1443\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LA Johnson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She's talking about drilling kids on basic skills. Worksheets for tracing letters and numbers. A teacher giving 10-minute lectures to a whole class of 25 kids who are expected to sit on their hands and listen, only five of whom may be paying any attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Higher-income families are not choosing this kind of preparation,\" she explains. \"And why would we assume that we need to train children of lower-income families earlier?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farran points out that families of means tend to choose \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/31/642567651/5-proven-benefits-of-play\">play-based\u003c/a> preschool programs with art, movement, music and nature. Children are asked open-ended questions, and they are listened to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not what Farran is seeing in classrooms full of kids in poverty, where \"teachers talk a lot, but they seldom listen to children.\" She thinks that part of the problem is that teachers in many states are certified for teaching students in prekindergarten through grade 5, or sometimes even pre-K-8. Very little of their training focuses on the youngest learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So another major bias that she's challenging is the idea that teacher certification equals quality. \"There have been three very large studies, the latest one in 2018, which are not showing any relationship between quality and licensure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Putting a bubble in your mouth\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Farran \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/07/19/486172575/a-harsh-critique-of-federally-funded-pre-k\">published a study\u003c/a> based on her observations of publicly funded Tennessee pre-K classrooms similar to those included in this paper. She found then that the largest chunk of the day was spent in transition time. This means simply moving kids around the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1032px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/02/09/ljohnson-pre-k-spot3_custom-0c9c777f633b2bef7ff0309dc46593255f8b607c-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"Child stomping in a stream while tossing leaves into the air\" width=\"1032\" height=\"1488\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LA Johnson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partly this is an architectural problem. Private preschools, even home-based day cares, tend to be laid out with little bodies in mind. There are bathrooms just off the classrooms. Children eat in, or very near, the classroom, too. And there is outdoor play space nearby with equipment suitable for short people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting these same programs in public schools can make the whole day more inconvenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if you're in an older elementary school, the bathroom is going to be down the hall. You've got to take your children out, line them up and then they wait,\" Farran says. \"And then, if you have to use the cafeteria, it's the same thing. You have to walk through the halls, you know: 'Don't touch your neighbor, don't touch the wall, put a bubble in your mouth because you have to be quiet.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Farran's most intriguing conjectures is that this need for control could explain the extra discipline problems seen later on in her most recent study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think children are not learning internal control. And if anything, they're learning sort of an almost allergic reaction to the amount of external control that they're having, that they're having to experience in school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, regularly reprimanding kids for doing normal kid stuff at 4 years old, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/05/490226345/preschool-suspensions-really-happen-and-thats-not-okay-with-connecticut\">suspending them,\u003c/a> could backfire down the road as children experience school as a place of unreasonable expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know from other research that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/13/384005652/study-black-girls-are-being-pushed-out-of-school\">control of children's bodies\u003c/a> at school can have disparate racial impact. Other studies have suggested that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/28/495488716/bias-isnt-just-a-police-problem-its-a-preschool-problem#:~:text=Bias%20Isn't%20Just%20A,Preschool%20Problem%20%3A%20NPR%20Ed%20%3A%20NPR&text=More%20Podcasts%20%26%20Shows-,Bias%20Isn't%20Just%20A%20Police%20Problem%2C%20It's%20A%20Preschool,watching%20black%20boys%2C%20expecting%20trouble.\">Black children\u003c/a> are disciplined more often in preschool, as they are in later grades. Farran's study, where 70% of the kids were white, found interactions between race, gender, and discipline problems, but no extra effect of attending preschool was detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where to go from here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The United States has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1074182352/unvaccinated-young-kids-child-care-parents-omicron-disruptions\">child care crisis\u003c/a> that COVID-19 both intensified and highlighted. Progressive policymakers and advocates have tried for years to expand public support for child care by \"pushing it down\" from the existing public school system, using the teachers and the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 831px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/02/09/ljohnson-pre-k-spot4_custom-7f2bb6c9660e19c366839c0a204aba478efdc6f7-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"Child making mud pie outdoors\" width=\"831\" height=\"1029\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LA Johnson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farran praises the direction that New York City, for one, has taken instead: a \"mixed-delivery\" program with slots for 3- and 4-year-olds. Some kids attend free public preschool in existing nonprofit day care centers, some in Head Start programs and some in traditional schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest lesson Farran has drawn from her research is that we've simply asked too much of pre-K, based on early results from what were essentially showcase pilot programs. \"We tend to want a magic bullet,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whoever thought that you could provide a 4-year-old from an impoverished family with 5 1/2 hours a day, nine months a year of preschool, and close the achievement gap, and send them to college at a higher rate?\" she asks. \"I mean, why? Why do we put so much pressure on our pre-K programs?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We might actually get better results, she says, from simply letting little children play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's right. A statewide public pre-K program, taught by licensed teachers, housed in public schools, had a measurable and statistically significant \u003cem>negative\u003c/em> effect on the children in this study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farran hadn't expected it. She didn't like it. But her study design was unusually strong, so she couldn't easily explain it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is still the only randomized controlled trial of a statewide pre-K, and I know that people get upset about this and don't want it to be true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Why it's a bad time for bad news\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's a bad time for early childhood advocates to get bad news about public pre-K. Federally funded universal prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds has been a cornerstone of President Biden's social agenda, and there are talks about resurrecting it from the stalled-out \"Build Back Better\" plan. Preschool has been expanding in recent years and is currently publicly funded to some extent in 46 states. About 7 in 10 4-year-olds now attend some kind of academic program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/02/09/ljohnson-pre-k-spot2_custom-196d891974d6add118172f56750cd1cb93cd9941-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"Child seated at desk\" width=\"1200\" height=\"681\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LA Johnson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This enthusiasm has rested in part on research going back to the 1970s. Economist James Heckman won the Nobel Prize for research showing substantial long-term returns on investment for specially \u003ca href=\"https://youth.gov/content/perry-preschool-project#:~:text=The%20goal%20of%20the%20Perry,%2C%20social%2C%20and%20physical%20development.\">designed\u003c/a> and carefully\u003ca href=\"https://abc.fpg.unc.edu/abecedarian-project\"> implemented\u003c/a> programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it crudely, policymakers and experts have touted for decades now that if you give a 4-year-old who is growing up in poverty a good dose of story time and block play, they'll be more likely to grow up to become a high-earning, productive citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What went wrong in Tennessee\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No study is the last word. The research on pre-K continues to be mixed. In May 2021, a working paper (not yet peer reviewed) came out that looked at \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/18/997501946/the-case-for-universal-pre-k-just-got-stronger\">Boston's pre-K program.\u003c/a> The study was a similar size to Farran's, used a similar quasi-experimental design based on random assignment, and also followed up with students for years. This study found that the preschool kids had better disciplinary records and were much more likely to graduate from high school, take the SATs and go to college, though their test scores didn't show a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farran believes that, with a citywide program, there's more opportunity for quality control than in her statewide study. Boston's program spent more per student, and it also was mixed-income, whereas Tennessee's program is for low-income kids only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what went wrong in Tennessee? Farran has some ideas — and they challenge almost everything about how we do school. How teachers are prepared, how programs are funded and where they are located. Even something as simple as where the bathrooms are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, Farran is rethinking her own preconceptions, which are an entire field's preconceptions, about what constitutes quality pre-K.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do kids in poverty deserve the same teaching as rich kids?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"One of the biases that I hadn't examined in myself is the idea that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/01/615188051/lets-stop-talking-about-the-30-million-word-gap\">poor children need a different sort of preparation\u003c/a> from children of higher-income families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/02/09/ljohnson-pre-k-spot_custom-9ecfbcca9e4c4cc75ae86ccd091677b9c5d56ab3-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"Two children playing in a stream\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1443\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LA Johnson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She's talking about drilling kids on basic skills. Worksheets for tracing letters and numbers. A teacher giving 10-minute lectures to a whole class of 25 kids who are expected to sit on their hands and listen, only five of whom may be paying any attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Higher-income families are not choosing this kind of preparation,\" she explains. \"And why would we assume that we need to train children of lower-income families earlier?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farran points out that families of means tend to choose \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/31/642567651/5-proven-benefits-of-play\">play-based\u003c/a> preschool programs with art, movement, music and nature. Children are asked open-ended questions, and they are listened to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not what Farran is seeing in classrooms full of kids in poverty, where \"teachers talk a lot, but they seldom listen to children.\" She thinks that part of the problem is that teachers in many states are certified for teaching students in prekindergarten through grade 5, or sometimes even pre-K-8. Very little of their training focuses on the youngest learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So another major bias that she's challenging is the idea that teacher certification equals quality. \"There have been three very large studies, the latest one in 2018, which are not showing any relationship between quality and licensure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Putting a bubble in your mouth\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Farran \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/07/19/486172575/a-harsh-critique-of-federally-funded-pre-k\">published a study\u003c/a> based on her observations of publicly funded Tennessee pre-K classrooms similar to those included in this paper. She found then that the largest chunk of the day was spent in transition time. This means simply moving kids around the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1032px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/02/09/ljohnson-pre-k-spot3_custom-0c9c777f633b2bef7ff0309dc46593255f8b607c-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"Child stomping in a stream while tossing leaves into the air\" width=\"1032\" height=\"1488\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LA Johnson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partly this is an architectural problem. Private preschools, even home-based day cares, tend to be laid out with little bodies in mind. There are bathrooms just off the classrooms. Children eat in, or very near, the classroom, too. And there is outdoor play space nearby with equipment suitable for short people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting these same programs in public schools can make the whole day more inconvenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if you're in an older elementary school, the bathroom is going to be down the hall. You've got to take your children out, line them up and then they wait,\" Farran says. \"And then, if you have to use the cafeteria, it's the same thing. You have to walk through the halls, you know: 'Don't touch your neighbor, don't touch the wall, put a bubble in your mouth because you have to be quiet.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Farran's most intriguing conjectures is that this need for control could explain the extra discipline problems seen later on in her most recent study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think children are not learning internal control. And if anything, they're learning sort of an almost allergic reaction to the amount of external control that they're having, that they're having to experience in school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, regularly reprimanding kids for doing normal kid stuff at 4 years old, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/05/490226345/preschool-suspensions-really-happen-and-thats-not-okay-with-connecticut\">suspending them,\u003c/a> could backfire down the road as children experience school as a place of unreasonable expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know from other research that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/13/384005652/study-black-girls-are-being-pushed-out-of-school\">control of children's bodies\u003c/a> at school can have disparate racial impact. Other studies have suggested that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/28/495488716/bias-isnt-just-a-police-problem-its-a-preschool-problem#:~:text=Bias%20Isn't%20Just%20A,Preschool%20Problem%20%3A%20NPR%20Ed%20%3A%20NPR&text=More%20Podcasts%20%26%20Shows-,Bias%20Isn't%20Just%20A%20Police%20Problem%2C%20It's%20A%20Preschool,watching%20black%20boys%2C%20expecting%20trouble.\">Black children\u003c/a> are disciplined more often in preschool, as they are in later grades. Farran's study, where 70% of the kids were white, found interactions between race, gender, and discipline problems, but no extra effect of attending preschool was detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where to go from here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The United States has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1074182352/unvaccinated-young-kids-child-care-parents-omicron-disruptions\">child care crisis\u003c/a> that COVID-19 both intensified and highlighted. Progressive policymakers and advocates have tried for years to expand public support for child care by \"pushing it down\" from the existing public school system, using the teachers and the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 831px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/02/09/ljohnson-pre-k-spot4_custom-7f2bb6c9660e19c366839c0a204aba478efdc6f7-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"Child making mud pie outdoors\" width=\"831\" height=\"1029\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LA Johnson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farran praises the direction that New York City, for one, has taken instead: a \"mixed-delivery\" program with slots for 3- and 4-year-olds. Some kids attend free public preschool in existing nonprofit day care centers, some in Head Start programs and some in traditional schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest lesson Farran has drawn from her research is that we've simply asked too much of pre-K, based on early results from what were essentially showcase pilot programs. \"We tend to want a magic bullet,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whoever thought that you could provide a 4-year-old from an impoverished family with 5 1/2 hours a day, nine months a year of preschool, and close the achievement gap, and send them to college at a higher rate?\" she asks. \"I mean, why? Why do we put so much pressure on our pre-K programs?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Waukecha Wilkerson is a mom, a small business owner and a tutor when any one of her three kids is struggling with math homework. On top of all that, she's is a part-time student at Sacramento State in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says being a student parent comes with its own unique challenges – challenges not every college is equipped to help with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very easy to get lost in the shuffle on college campuses and it can be very confusing without proper advising.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkerson is one of more than 4 million U.S. college students who are also parents. That's about one-fifth of the total undergraduate population, and it doesn't even count students who are caring for siblings or other family members while working toward a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For these students, it's important to find a college that fits into the already busy life of a parent or caregiver. NPR spoke to researchers, policy experts and student parents themselves for their advice on how to know if a college is a good fit. They highlighted four things student parents and student caregivers should consider:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Access to affordable childcare\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Overall cost, and timeline of tuition payments\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Availability of academic advising\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Flexible class scheduling\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>1. If child care is a must, is there an affordable option near campus?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59046\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-59046 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/02/studentparentspot-3_slide-0d31bcdc779fd90f8734cc57a2dd39e0f1ed77e6-scaled-e1643994427555.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of childcare provider and parent parent\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna DeMaglie for NPR \u003ccite>(Tips for student parents)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"[Child care] can make the difference between a student staying in school and dropping out of school,\" says Nicole Lynn Lewis, founder of Generation Hope, a nonprofit that helps teen parents graduate from college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it's important to ask colleges about on-campus childcare or other child care resources that are available. Sacramento State, for example, doesn't have an on-campus daycare, but it does have an \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1cN53pVJIbyE8Y3pxoqN3rlkZCQl3KVzM&ll=38.62342560627547%2C-121.35843247773438&z=11\">interactive map \u003c/a>of nearby child care options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the number of on-campus child care centers were \u003ca href=\"https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/C425_Child-Care-_Final.pdf\">declining nationwide\u003c/a>. Because of this, Lewis says, \"They alone cannot be kind of the checkboxes that a parenting student would be looking to check off when looking for a really supportive environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis also recommends checking to see if the school participates in a federal program called Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS), which gives money to colleges to help students pay for on- or off-campus childcare. Only a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/24/772018032/vital-federal-program-to-help-parents-in-college-is-a-drop-in-the-bucket\">handful of colleges receive these\u003c/a> funds, but \u003ca href=\"https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/C436-CCAMPIS.pdf\">a 2016 study\u003c/a> by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, or IWPR, suggests that parents who use CCAMPIS \"have higher retention and completion rates [than] students on average, as well as excellent academic performance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Are there scholarships and grants that could help cover tuition?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59047\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-59047 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/02/studentparentspot-4_slide-c7e94bac848b2f14dd465e1b735340d20dec1d66-scaled-e1643994508697.jpg\" alt=\"Parent student budgeting for college\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna DeMaglie for NPR \u003ccite>(Deanna DeMaglie for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It may seem like the only way to pay for college is to take out loans, but there are also grants, scholarships and financial aid resources specifically designed for students who are caregivers. Some colleges, like \u003ca href=\"https://baruch.scholarships.ngwebsolutions.com/scholarx_scholarshipsearch.aspx\">Baruch College\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://studentparents.berkeley.edu/programs-services/financial-aid-scholarship\">University of California, Berkeley\u003c/a>, have grant programs for student parents who demonstrate financial need. Others connect students to outside resources, like George Mason University's \u003ca href=\"https://masonfamily.gmu.edu/student-parents/financial-assistance/\">list of scholarships for parenting and expecting students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The College Board also has a \u003ca href=\"https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/scholarship-search#!welcome\">scholarship search tool \u003c/a>that allows students to search by age, race and financial need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as NPR's Elissa Nadworny has reported, anyone who is even considering going to college should \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/20/925739424/fafsa-college-financial-aid-help\">fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid\u003c/a>, or FAFSA, which can unlock all kinds of grants, scholarships and loans to help cover the cost of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking out small loans can help students take more classes and reduce the need to work, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/14/667699220/the-benefits-of-taking-out-loans-for-college\">as Nadworny has reported\u003c/a>. But students — and especially student parents — should also be cautious when it comes to taking on long-term debt. In 2019, IWPR and Ascend, a policy arm of the nonprofit Aspen Institute, \u003ca href=\"https://iwpr.org/iwpr-issues/student-parent-success-initiative/parents-in-college-by-the-numbers/\">found that\u003c/a> the median debt among student parents was more than two and half times higher than debt among students without children. Single mothers also tend to borrow more than other student parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that college isn't affordable for the majority of students,\" says Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, who co-authored the 2019 study. \"But when you have a child or multiple children, you're providing housing and food on top of tuition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timeline for tuition payments can also be an important factor. Myrna Perez, a mother of three in central Washington\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>says she chose to attend Pierce College because Pierce gave her the option to pay her tuition over time, instead of asking for thousands of dollars upfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no way I was going to come up with, like $20,000 in one month,\" Perez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. What do academic advisors and alumni have to say?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/02/studentparentspot-1_slide-43545c18fb8fd6f333a4b7a41d09a89065720aea-scaled-e1643994566667.jpg\" alt=\"Parent student meeting with advisor\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way for student parents and student caregivers to gauge how much support a school will provide is to talk to an advisor or alumni \u003cem>before \u003c/em>enrolling. Portland State University hosts \u003ca href=\"https://www.pdx.edu/students-with-children/events/virtual-social-hour-info-session-students-children\">virtual information sessions\u003c/a> where prospective students can ask questions to advisors and current students who are also raising children. Resources like Sacramento State's first-generation\u003ca href=\"https://www.csus.edu/student-affairs/centers-programs/first-generation-students/_internal/_documents/first-generation-directory.pdf\"> college student directory\u003c/a> can connect a parenting student with someone from a similar background in their field of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more you can talk to people like student services folks, people who work specifically and intentionally with students, even if not just student parents, can help you get a sense for the type of support you can expect as a student,\" says Cruse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkerson also recommends looking up how many advisors a school has compared to how many students are enrolled. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mdrc.org/project/scaling-college-completion-efforts-student-success-success#overview\">One research-backed program\u003c/a> aimed at increasing college completion recommends a ratio of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/iPASS_Advising_Brief_final.pdf\">less than 150 students per advisor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also important, she says, to see if a school has specific advisors that specialize in supporting underrepresented groups, like student parents, first-generation students or transfer students. Front Range Community College in Colorado offers \u003ca href=\"https://www.frontrange.edu/being-a-student/advising-and-counseling/single-parent-program\">personalized advising for single parents\u003c/a> – this is separate from the general academic advising center, so parenting students can talk to someone who may be more familiar with their unique situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once enrolled, Wilkerson recommends reaching out to an academic advisor before classes even start to help establish an immediate connection to someone who understands the intricacies of college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more efficient you are with planning your classes, the more chance you have of graduating,\" she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Does the college have class options that fit a busy schedule?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-59049 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/02/studentparentspot-2_slide-a0e71fae69748f03ef719cf5ed4bc29d29950497-scaled-e1643994600876.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of parent's busy schedule\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna DeMaglie for NPR \u003ccite>(Deanna DeMaglie for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parenting students might not always be able to make it to campus during the day, so it's important to look for colleges that offer night classes, online learning or recorded lectures that can fit into a busy schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Parents experience this concept called time poverty,\" says David Croom, the assistant director for postsecondary achievement and innovation at Ascend. \"They have about half the time to dedicate to academic pursuits – like being in class, tutoring, studying – as compared to non-parents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Croom says, during the pandemic, remote learning and recorded lectures made it much easier for student parents to take classes. He believes institutions should continue to provide these flexible learning options. He also recommends asking admissions advisors about classroom attendance policies and flexible scheduling options for required courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, for many colleges, online learning is nothing new. The CalIfornia State University system is one of countless institutions that \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstateonline.net/\">allow students\u003c/a> to complete their degrees fully online. For some programs and majors, students can choose a hybrid learning option so they have the opportunity to learn in-person when their schedule permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if going to college seems like an uphill battle, studies show that once student parents get there, they tend to thrive. Student parents \u003ca href=\"https://iwpr.org/iwpr-issues/student-parent-success-initiative/parents-in-college-by-the-numbers/\">often get higher grades \u003c/a>than students without children, and Croom says they can find the process of earning a degree especially rewarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's this really strong sense of motivation. They want to do well and be better for themselves, but also for their children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=4+tips+for+parents+and+caregivers+who+want+to+go+to+college&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Waukecha Wilkerson is a mom, a small business owner and a tutor when any one of her three kids is struggling with math homework. On top of all that, she's is a part-time student at Sacramento State in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says being a student parent comes with its own unique challenges – challenges not every college is equipped to help with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very easy to get lost in the shuffle on college campuses and it can be very confusing without proper advising.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkerson is one of more than 4 million U.S. college students who are also parents. That's about one-fifth of the total undergraduate population, and it doesn't even count students who are caring for siblings or other family members while working toward a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For these students, it's important to find a college that fits into the already busy life of a parent or caregiver. NPR spoke to researchers, policy experts and student parents themselves for their advice on how to know if a college is a good fit. They highlighted four things student parents and student caregivers should consider:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Access to affordable childcare\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Overall cost, and timeline of tuition payments\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Availability of academic advising\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Flexible class scheduling\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>1. If child care is a must, is there an affordable option near campus?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59046\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-59046 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/02/studentparentspot-3_slide-0d31bcdc779fd90f8734cc57a2dd39e0f1ed77e6-scaled-e1643994427555.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of childcare provider and parent parent\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna DeMaglie for NPR \u003ccite>(Tips for student parents)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"[Child care] can make the difference between a student staying in school and dropping out of school,\" says Nicole Lynn Lewis, founder of Generation Hope, a nonprofit that helps teen parents graduate from college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it's important to ask colleges about on-campus childcare or other child care resources that are available. Sacramento State, for example, doesn't have an on-campus daycare, but it does have an \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1cN53pVJIbyE8Y3pxoqN3rlkZCQl3KVzM&ll=38.62342560627547%2C-121.35843247773438&z=11\">interactive map \u003c/a>of nearby child care options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the number of on-campus child care centers were \u003ca href=\"https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/C425_Child-Care-_Final.pdf\">declining nationwide\u003c/a>. Because of this, Lewis says, \"They alone cannot be kind of the checkboxes that a parenting student would be looking to check off when looking for a really supportive environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis also recommends checking to see if the school participates in a federal program called Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS), which gives money to colleges to help students pay for on- or off-campus childcare. Only a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/24/772018032/vital-federal-program-to-help-parents-in-college-is-a-drop-in-the-bucket\">handful of colleges receive these\u003c/a> funds, but \u003ca href=\"https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/C436-CCAMPIS.pdf\">a 2016 study\u003c/a> by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, or IWPR, suggests that parents who use CCAMPIS \"have higher retention and completion rates [than] students on average, as well as excellent academic performance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Are there scholarships and grants that could help cover tuition?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59047\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-59047 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/02/studentparentspot-4_slide-c7e94bac848b2f14dd465e1b735340d20dec1d66-scaled-e1643994508697.jpg\" alt=\"Parent student budgeting for college\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna DeMaglie for NPR \u003ccite>(Deanna DeMaglie for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It may seem like the only way to pay for college is to take out loans, but there are also grants, scholarships and financial aid resources specifically designed for students who are caregivers. Some colleges, like \u003ca href=\"https://baruch.scholarships.ngwebsolutions.com/scholarx_scholarshipsearch.aspx\">Baruch College\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://studentparents.berkeley.edu/programs-services/financial-aid-scholarship\">University of California, Berkeley\u003c/a>, have grant programs for student parents who demonstrate financial need. Others connect students to outside resources, like George Mason University's \u003ca href=\"https://masonfamily.gmu.edu/student-parents/financial-assistance/\">list of scholarships for parenting and expecting students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The College Board also has a \u003ca href=\"https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/scholarship-search#!welcome\">scholarship search tool \u003c/a>that allows students to search by age, race and financial need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as NPR's Elissa Nadworny has reported, anyone who is even considering going to college should \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/20/925739424/fafsa-college-financial-aid-help\">fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid\u003c/a>, or FAFSA, which can unlock all kinds of grants, scholarships and loans to help cover the cost of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking out small loans can help students take more classes and reduce the need to work, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/14/667699220/the-benefits-of-taking-out-loans-for-college\">as Nadworny has reported\u003c/a>. But students — and especially student parents — should also be cautious when it comes to taking on long-term debt. In 2019, IWPR and Ascend, a policy arm of the nonprofit Aspen Institute, \u003ca href=\"https://iwpr.org/iwpr-issues/student-parent-success-initiative/parents-in-college-by-the-numbers/\">found that\u003c/a> the median debt among student parents was more than two and half times higher than debt among students without children. Single mothers also tend to borrow more than other student parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that college isn't affordable for the majority of students,\" says Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, who co-authored the 2019 study. \"But when you have a child or multiple children, you're providing housing and food on top of tuition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timeline for tuition payments can also be an important factor. Myrna Perez, a mother of three in central Washington\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>says she chose to attend Pierce College because Pierce gave her the option to pay her tuition over time, instead of asking for thousands of dollars upfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no way I was going to come up with, like $20,000 in one month,\" Perez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. What do academic advisors and alumni have to say?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/02/studentparentspot-1_slide-43545c18fb8fd6f333a4b7a41d09a89065720aea-scaled-e1643994566667.jpg\" alt=\"Parent student meeting with advisor\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way for student parents and student caregivers to gauge how much support a school will provide is to talk to an advisor or alumni \u003cem>before \u003c/em>enrolling. Portland State University hosts \u003ca href=\"https://www.pdx.edu/students-with-children/events/virtual-social-hour-info-session-students-children\">virtual information sessions\u003c/a> where prospective students can ask questions to advisors and current students who are also raising children. Resources like Sacramento State's first-generation\u003ca href=\"https://www.csus.edu/student-affairs/centers-programs/first-generation-students/_internal/_documents/first-generation-directory.pdf\"> college student directory\u003c/a> can connect a parenting student with someone from a similar background in their field of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more you can talk to people like student services folks, people who work specifically and intentionally with students, even if not just student parents, can help you get a sense for the type of support you can expect as a student,\" says Cruse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkerson also recommends looking up how many advisors a school has compared to how many students are enrolled. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mdrc.org/project/scaling-college-completion-efforts-student-success-success#overview\">One research-backed program\u003c/a> aimed at increasing college completion recommends a ratio of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/iPASS_Advising_Brief_final.pdf\">less than 150 students per advisor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also important, she says, to see if a school has specific advisors that specialize in supporting underrepresented groups, like student parents, first-generation students or transfer students. Front Range Community College in Colorado offers \u003ca href=\"https://www.frontrange.edu/being-a-student/advising-and-counseling/single-parent-program\">personalized advising for single parents\u003c/a> – this is separate from the general academic advising center, so parenting students can talk to someone who may be more familiar with their unique situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once enrolled, Wilkerson recommends reaching out to an academic advisor before classes even start to help establish an immediate connection to someone who understands the intricacies of college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more efficient you are with planning your classes, the more chance you have of graduating,\" she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Does the college have class options that fit a busy schedule?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-59049 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/02/studentparentspot-2_slide-a0e71fae69748f03ef719cf5ed4bc29d29950497-scaled-e1643994600876.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of parent's busy schedule\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna DeMaglie for NPR \u003ccite>(Deanna DeMaglie for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parenting students might not always be able to make it to campus during the day, so it's important to look for colleges that offer night classes, online learning or recorded lectures that can fit into a busy schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Parents experience this concept called time poverty,\" says David Croom, the assistant director for postsecondary achievement and innovation at Ascend. \"They have about half the time to dedicate to academic pursuits – like being in class, tutoring, studying – as compared to non-parents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Croom says, during the pandemic, remote learning and recorded lectures made it much easier for student parents to take classes. He believes institutions should continue to provide these flexible learning options. He also recommends asking admissions advisors about classroom attendance policies and flexible scheduling options for required courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, for many colleges, online learning is nothing new. The CalIfornia State University system is one of countless institutions that \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstateonline.net/\">allow students\u003c/a> to complete their degrees fully online. For some programs and majors, students can choose a hybrid learning option so they have the opportunity to learn in-person when their schedule permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if going to college seems like an uphill battle, studies show that once student parents get there, they tend to thrive. 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"content": "\u003cp>Even before they can talk, young babies know that two people must have a close relationship if they're willing to do to anything that involves swapping saliva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kissing on the mouth, sharing a spoon, taking licks off of someone's ice-cream cone — all of these activities generally only happen when people have an especially intimate relationship, and this fact appears to be obvious to infants who are only 8 to 10 months old, according to a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh1054\">study\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Science\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From a really young age, without much experience at all with these things, infants are able to understand not only who is connected but how they are connected,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://saxelab.mit.edu/people/ashley-thomas\">Ashley Thomas\u003c/a> of MIT, who studies what babies and young children understand about the complexities of their social world. \"They are able to distinguish between different kinds of cooperative relationships.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who do babies look to first?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thomas and her colleagues reached that conclusion after showing videos of carefully crafted puppet shows to babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their videos shows a woman rolling a ball back and forth with a blue fuzzy puppet. Then another woman shares an orange with that same puppet by putting a slice of orange in her mouth, then letting the puppet nibble on the slice, and then putting it back in her own mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Both of these interactions are perfectly friendly and pro-social,\" says Thomas, but taking bites off the same food suggests a more intimate relationship than simply playing ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test whether infants made this distinction, the video then shows the two women with the blue fuzzy puppet in between them. The puppet starts to cry and puts its head down, as if it is suddenly unhappy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the puppet cried, infants and toddlers looked first and looked longer at the woman who had shared bites of her orange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're looking in that direction because they expect something to happen there,\" says Thomas. \"They expect that woman to be the one to respond to the puppet's distress.\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the two women were shown with a totally new puppet that started to cry, however, infants and young children looked at both women equally often. This suggested that they didn't see this particular food-sharing woman as especially helpful; instead, her relationship with the puppet was what really mattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make sure it wasn't just sharing of food that seemed to make babies infer the existence of a close social connection, the researchers created another, similar video. This time, instead of sharing an orange slice, a woman simply put her finger in her own mouth and then put it in a purple puppet's mouth, before putting it back in her own mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then that same woman also interacted with a green puppet, touching its forehead and then touching her own forehead. After that, the video showed the woman seemingly in distress, with the purple and green puppets looking on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infants and toddlers gazed at the purple puppet that had the more intimate, finger-in-the-mouth interaction, as if expecting this puppet to be more affected by the woman's consternation, presumably because they seemed to have a closer relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers also studied older children, aged 5 to 7, and told them about another child who was sharing stuff. Some of the sharing involved contact with saliva, although the scientists never explicitly referred to spit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just said, like, 'This kid is eating applesauce with a spoon and he shares his applesauce with one of these two people using his spoon. Who do you think he shared with?' And the choices were always between a family member and a friend,\" explains Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For items that could be easily divvied up, like separate pieces of candy or toys, kids thought a person was just as likely to share with a friend as a family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But when it comes to saliva-sharing items, like sharing an ice cream cone or using the same spoon, then kids think that the kid is more likely to share with family,\" says Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Saliva as social glue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Other researchers find these results intriguing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These findings not only illuminate what young children understand about the social structures around them but also spark further questions regarding how children come to acquire these expectations and how universal they might be,\" writes \u003ca href=\"https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N11-1148\">Christine Fawcett\u003c/a> of Uppsala University in Sweden, in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5157\">commentary\u003c/a> that was published along with this new study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that the idea of exchanging saliva with a stranger can create feelings of disgust, perhaps as a way to protect people from contamination or disease, but that people will happily do this with those close to them, even pet dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There could be an evolutionary pressure to suppress disgust with bodily substances to aid in taking care of babies, and infants' experience of this kind of caretaking could then lead to a learned expectation that such behavior is associated with closeness, Fawcett points out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/alan-page-fiske/\">Alan Fiske\u003c/a>, an anthropologist at UCLA, believes that babies have an innate understanding of certain kinds of social relationships. He's \u003ca href=\"https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1991-97016-000\">written\u003c/a> that humans are born primed to recognize four fundamental forms of relationships, and he calls this study \"enormously important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In relationships characterized by \"communal sharing,\" he says, sharing saliva \"is a way of connecting bodies, or making bodies the same in some respect. And that's the crucial thing. When people feel that some how they are essentially the same, almost in an embodied way, then they feel socially the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Spit sharing is one instance of, or one type of, connecting bodies physically through bodily substances,\" says Fiske. But there are other ways — such as having sex, breastfeeding, or even mingling blood to become \"blood brothers.\" The ritual of communion in Christianity, he notes, involves ingesting the body and blood of Jesus Christ as a way for that religion to express and reinforce a communal sharing relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of close relationship can be created between people in other ways that don't involve body fluids, however, such as grooming, snuggling and hugging, or synchronous rhythmic movement such as dancing or marching, says Fiske.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this view, babies seem to just know all this innately. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even before they can talk, young babies know that two people must have a close relationship if they're willing to do to anything that involves swapping saliva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kissing on the mouth, sharing a spoon, taking licks off of someone's ice-cream cone — all of these activities generally only happen when people have an especially intimate relationship, and this fact appears to be obvious to infants who are only 8 to 10 months old, according to a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh1054\">study\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Science\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From a really young age, without much experience at all with these things, infants are able to understand not only who is connected but how they are connected,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://saxelab.mit.edu/people/ashley-thomas\">Ashley Thomas\u003c/a> of MIT, who studies what babies and young children understand about the complexities of their social world. \"They are able to distinguish between different kinds of cooperative relationships.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who do babies look to first?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thomas and her colleagues reached that conclusion after showing videos of carefully crafted puppet shows to babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their videos shows a woman rolling a ball back and forth with a blue fuzzy puppet. Then another woman shares an orange with that same puppet by putting a slice of orange in her mouth, then letting the puppet nibble on the slice, and then putting it back in her own mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The puppet starts to cry and puts its head down, as if it is suddenly unhappy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the puppet cried, infants and toddlers looked first and looked longer at the woman who had shared bites of her orange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're looking in that direction because they expect something to happen there,\" says Thomas. \"They expect that woman to be the one to respond to the puppet's distress.\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the two women were shown with a totally new puppet that started to cry, however, infants and young children looked at both women equally often. This suggested that they didn't see this particular food-sharing woman as especially helpful; instead, her relationship with the puppet was what really mattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make sure it wasn't just sharing of food that seemed to make babies infer the existence of a close social connection, the researchers created another, similar video. This time, instead of sharing an orange slice, a woman simply put her finger in her own mouth and then put it in a purple puppet's mouth, before putting it back in her own mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then that same woman also interacted with a green puppet, touching its forehead and then touching her own forehead. After that, the video showed the woman seemingly in distress, with the purple and green puppets looking on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infants and toddlers gazed at the purple puppet that had the more intimate, finger-in-the-mouth interaction, as if expecting this puppet to be more affected by the woman's consternation, presumably because they seemed to have a closer relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers also studied older children, aged 5 to 7, and told them about another child who was sharing stuff. Some of the sharing involved contact with saliva, although the scientists never explicitly referred to spit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just said, like, 'This kid is eating applesauce with a spoon and he shares his applesauce with one of these two people using his spoon. Who do you think he shared with?' And the choices were always between a family member and a friend,\" explains Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For items that could be easily divvied up, like separate pieces of candy or toys, kids thought a person was just as likely to share with a friend as a family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But when it comes to saliva-sharing items, like sharing an ice cream cone or using the same spoon, then kids think that the kid is more likely to share with family,\" says Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Saliva as social glue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Other researchers find these results intriguing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These findings not only illuminate what young children understand about the social structures around them but also spark further questions regarding how children come to acquire these expectations and how universal they might be,\" writes \u003ca href=\"https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N11-1148\">Christine Fawcett\u003c/a> of Uppsala University in Sweden, in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5157\">commentary\u003c/a> that was published along with this new study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that the idea of exchanging saliva with a stranger can create feelings of disgust, perhaps as a way to protect people from contamination or disease, but that people will happily do this with those close to them, even pet dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There could be an evolutionary pressure to suppress disgust with bodily substances to aid in taking care of babies, and infants' experience of this kind of caretaking could then lead to a learned expectation that such behavior is associated with closeness, Fawcett points out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/alan-page-fiske/\">Alan Fiske\u003c/a>, an anthropologist at UCLA, believes that babies have an innate understanding of certain kinds of social relationships. He's \u003ca href=\"https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1991-97016-000\">written\u003c/a> that humans are born primed to recognize four fundamental forms of relationships, and he calls this study \"enormously important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In relationships characterized by \"communal sharing,\" he says, sharing saliva \"is a way of connecting bodies, or making bodies the same in some respect. And that's the crucial thing. When people feel that some how they are essentially the same, almost in an embodied way, then they feel socially the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Spit sharing is one instance of, or one type of, connecting bodies physically through bodily substances,\" says Fiske. 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This allowed employees to access any Bright Horizon center in their area and use SitterCity for in-home nannies or tutoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Cuddy, vice president of human resources at Major League Baseball (MLB), says parents were the biggest proponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They ended up being great partners in helping us investigate different options,\" Cuddy says. \"We heard what they were looking for... so I think it worked out really well by having their input.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arriada-Keiper says Adobe also partners with Bright Horizons to offer 20 days a year of fully-funded backup care. Employees located in areas without Bright Horizons centers receive a daily $100 stipend for 20 days a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We really believe that in order for people to do their best work, [parents] need to be their best all the time,\" Arriada-Keiper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees must pay for services out of pocket after the 20 days, but they still get a discount. 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