Week 6

    Follow some of the outside links that you have not yet explored. Where do they lead?
A lot of them lead to other sites and articles about the site that I was on.  

    Thoroughly search one area of the site. What do you find?

The one site that I really looked into was National Institute for Early Education Research. Which I ended up in this news article about Bleak picture for minority kids in public schools from USA Today.  Which talks about how minority students still face educational opportunities, which are different than white students? This could mean less educational teachers and harder discipline.

    If you receive an e-newsletter, follow a link related to one of the issues you have been studying. What new information is available?

I do not receive a newsletter even though I thought I had signed up for one.

Additionally, find out if the site you selected at the beginning of this course offers any information about the issue of this week:

The website that I had looked into week one was http://www.nccp.org. This website talks about the poor families around the world. They overall talk about the different types of people who are poor and how this is a trend that families circle. Unfortunately this does include the minority in every state no matter where you might live.   

    Does the website or the e-newsletter contain any information that adds to your understanding of equity and excellence in early care and education?

This website also talks about the importance it is to make an investment into children. When you have a bigger and better education you will have a better program that this helps families get out of the poverty line and stops the cycle of poverty. I find this very important I just think that a lot of people don’t realize the important part of having better education helps kids and their families get out of the poverty line and make a better life’s for themselves and their future.

    What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain this week from exploring the website and/or the e-newsletter?

The more and more I was reading into the website to me it felt as though every child at one point in time has been in some type of hardship which then affects the child overall health. Some examples that they gave was, single mothers, moved in 6month or less, non-speaking parents, large families, non-college parents, teen mother and non-employed parents. I just feel as though one of these situations had to have come up in every child’s life somehow. Not everyone life is perfect and things do happen. So trying to stop all of this in every child I know will not happen. Just knowing that making a difference in the families where this is happening for long period of times or has more than one of these risk factors. Even to be able to help a hand fill of families a year is at least starting to make a difference and is bettering the life of families in the future.