No Longer Welcome Av Katherine M. (associate Professor Of Psychology Associate Professor Of Psychology Department Of Psychology University Of Illinois

For over 15 years, researchers have described a crisis in our nations'' early learning classrooms. Hundreds of children are expelled from childcare and preschool every day; a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten-12th grade students. While policymakers have taken steps to mitigate this crisis, disparities in who is expelled persist. Boys and Black children are routinely over-represented among those pushed out of the exact environments that are supposed to helpprepare them for school. Each child''s expulsion is symptomatic of a larger crisis¿an overburdened, underfunded, undervalued, and fragmented early education system. In early childhood, expulsion is the result of a series of adult decisions made within constrained contexts and at times blind to downstream consequences: exhausted and underpaid teachers deciding how to expend their limited attention and energy in a chaotic classroom; administrators on razor-thin budgets deciding among hiring additional personnel, providing hig

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