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Children writing notes outside in the rain

UD Helps Delaware Child Care Programs

Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood aids distribution of federal funds The University of Delaware’s Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood (DIEEC) and state partners have joined forces to ensure early childhood professionals get the financial help they need to serve the state’s most vulnerable— young children and families. In March 2021, Delaware’s ... Read more

Martha Buell - Early Childhood School Expulsions

Suspended Justice

Some children are unfairly suspended and expelled from early childhood programs, Prof. Martha Buell says

Child’s Play

For many adults, playing with kids feels challenging and awkward, but UD experts have answers When you are a child, you are not really a child — at least not all the time. You are also a dinosaur. A wizard. A hot air balloon operator crash-landing into a dodo bird colony off the coast of ... Read more

Child care workers are essential in this pandemic. We need to pay them that way

Because of COVID-19, the way we work doesn’t look the same. As every profession has had to adapt, early childhood professionals have been especially resilient. Since March, early care and education programs have reinvented themselves almost daily to care for and educate Delaware’s youngest learners — all while making, on average, $11.60 an hour. More ... Read more

Delaware Stars staff member delivering supplies during COVID-19 pandemic

UD Helps With Early Care and Education Programs

Delaware Stars provides essential supplies and educational assistance Imagine teaching 3-year-olds to practice social distancing. Not an easy task, but one of many requirements that early care and education programs must implement to stay open during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Early childhood professionals are today’s frontline responders, taking children’s temperatures, rigorously disinfecting classrooms and implementing ... Read more