The National Opportunity to Learn Campaign is funded largely by the Schott Foundation for Public Education.
Schott is one of the few national organizations that supports public education, not privatization.
This is a good video that it funded. Takes only a minute to watch.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I couldn’t get the link to work. Anyone else have more luck than I did?
Link did not work for me either
??? Which video ???
Hmmm, works fine for me. It’s a YouTube video.
this looks like the right one and I got it to work!
Cute on the surface, but as I remember my kids were busy being superhero and storybook characters. They were drawing and building and exploring.
“We need to go to Preschool so we can start reading in Kindergarten.”
And that is precisely why Obama and Duncan are supporting Preschool –in order to force an alignment with the CCSS mandated, developmentally inappropriate, pushed down academic curriculum in Kindergarten.
No one in this administration is ever going to listen to child development experts or learn from Finland, Waldorf, David Elkind, Alfie Kohn, etc. and let children have their childhoods, instead of pressuring them to achieve at younger and younger ages.
MIght as well remove the “Pre” prefix from Preschool, because we can say “so long” to play-based and project-based learning there and “hello” to drill for skill (flashcards, workbooks etc.), to get kids ready for Kindergarten.
Babies included? I don’t like this at all – what will this look like? Home visits when you get home from the hospital? I don’t want my children to live under a regime that tells them how to raise their babies…
“But there are still skeptics who believe these programs don’t make a difference, who oppose investing in babies and toddlers at a time of deficits, and who oppose raising tobacco taxes—both to discourage youth from taking up smoking and to finance President Obama’s birth-to-five plan.”
http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/remarks-us-secretary-education-arne-duncan-national-head-start-association-conference