“We do not have a child to spare!”

Janet Porter, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, looks at a few numbers with growing concern “These numbers tell me Massachusetts will have trouble maintaining the pipeline of skilled, well-educated workers our innovation-based economy needs,” she writes in “Making the grade with literacy.” Porter, who chairs the board of Raising a Reader Massachusetts, looks to high-quality early education and language and literacy development as critical to the commonwealth’s economic future.

…read more in the December 14, 2011 post from Strategies for Children’s Eye on Early Education authored by Irene Sege.