School Readiness, Equity, and the Importance of Investment

Science tells us early learning is critically important, yet somehow it's both remarkably expensive and those doing it are massively underpaid. There's a huge divide in how we think about education before age 5 and after, and that needs to change. Rachel Giannini, childhood specialist and "a preschool teacher's preschool teacher", joins us to talk about the state of early education in the US today, the art of working well with small humans, and what families should look for in an early childhood center.