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Explain how poverty impacts healthy child development and learning in early childhood.

Give two ways an early childcare center can adjust or add programming to meet the needs of children and families living in poverty.

Provide a recommendation regarding how individual staff members can promote the healthy development and learning of children living in poverty.

A brief analysis of at least one recent state or federal policy related to early childhood education to ensure equity for all children in early childhood settings. Explain how the policy might impact a center.

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Issues are explored related to how to bridge gaps in ensuring equity for students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged in early childhood programs.

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First of all, as you examine two ways an early childcare center can adjust or add programming to meet the needs of children and families living in poverty, resources denote a major area where a center could devote a section to a lending or library or literacy and STEM resources that parents and families can check out books, CDs, videos, and other resources, tools, and materials to facilitate children's development and school/home partnerships.

Research also strongly supports this idea. For example, one author summarizes how lending libraries helped to bridge the achievement gap for him as a lower socioeconomic learner since "Without free books, I would not have become a voracious reader and, without such reading, you are simply not going to become a writer" (Follett, 2019).

Next, they can also integrate days into the school calendar where they host swap meets, so parents can swap gently used items like car seats ...

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