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Shawanza Demetrist Lockett – ProQuest LLC, 2025
Many kindergarten teachers are feeling the effects of standard-based education. The problem is that it is unknown whether teachers implement mandated state standards in a developmentally appropriate way. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to investigate kindergarten teachers' perspectives on implementing standards in a developmentally…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Academic Standards, State Standards
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Luis Faundez; Robert Kaestner – Evaluation Review, 2025
This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is often inconsistent with human capital theory. We…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services
First Focus on Children, 2025
Budgets are moral documents, reflecting our priorities as a nation by deciding where to allocate resources. Congress is targeting cuts and policy changes that limit access to health care, nutrition programs, and basic financial stability for millions of children, including Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the…
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Aid, Retrenchment, Resource Allocation
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S. Gavin Weiser; Linsay DeMartino – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2025
Like the depiction of plagues in apocalyptic science fiction, neoliberalism continues to infect education at all levels. This infection causes educators to care not for the children, but to embrace the figure of the Child. Reproductive futurism, in the imagined redemptive figure of the Child has been regulating the structure of education not for…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Science Fiction, Neoliberalism, Futures (of Society)