On Thursday, May 28, The Forum partnered with the Alliance for Childhood to convene a panel of experts defining developmentally appropriate early learning. Forum Convener Deborah Meier facilitated the discussion with Joan Almon of the Alliance.
Panelists used the Alliance’s recent report, Crisis in the Kindergarten, as a springboard for the discussion. One of the most striking findings was that kindergartners in the study spent between four and seven times the minutes in direct math and literacy instruction daily than in play time.
