Im john valant, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at brookings, its my privilege to welcome you for Todays Discussion on the future of early Childhood Education as education. As many of you are aware, kids experiences in early childhood are critically important in shaping their educational and life trajectories. Its a pivotal time for Brain Development and for building social emotional skills weve known for a long time that providing children with high Quality Care can have extraordinarily positive longterm effects and be a very good investment for government. The challenge has been in providing those high quality opportunities to as many families as possible and in the most equitable ways possible. With that context, this has been an especially challenging time for the early Childhood Sector as we will discuss today. We have a terrific group of panelists to talk us through these issues. Miriam calderon is the Deputy A
Brought back into session in order to be briefed by administration officials. Up next, a discussion on the impact of covid on Childhood Education. Experts explore the benefits of universal prek and the need to increase pay to attract a qualified workforce. They also talk about how the Education System will be impacted by the american Rescue Plan and the american jobs act. John good afternoon and good morning to those joining you joining us out west. Im john valant, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at brookings, its my privilege to welcome you for Todays Discussion on the future of early Childhood Education as education. As many of you are aware, kids experiences in early childhood are critically important in shaping their educational and life trajectories. Its a pivotal time for Brain Development and for building social emotional skills weve known for a long time that providing children with high Quality Care can have
That is a discussion we are going to be having on an ongoing basis. We talked about some of the things at the last meeting, and we will talk about them of the next meeting a couple of weeks. Sen. Toomey i think that is important. Let me close with a question on a central make digital currency. During your testimony yesterday, i sensed what i wasnt sure, but thought might be a change in your tone about the virtues of a central bank digital currency being issued by the fed. One of the things you said yesterday if that one of the stronger arguments in favor of a cbdc is that you wouldnt need stable coins if you had a stable u. S. Currency. Isnt the reverse also true . If you have stable coins, cryptocurrencies and use, then maybe theres no need for a central bank digital currency. It is my view that the development of a central bank digital currency by the fed would require congressional authorization. I wonder if you share that view. Secondly, it is still not clear to me what problem a c
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Before we continue i would like to remind members we have established an emailed Address And Distribution list for written material members might want to offer as part of the hearing today. If you would like to submit materials, please send them to judiciary. Mail. House. Gov and we will distribute them to members and staff as quickly as we can. I would ask all members and witnesses mute your microphones while you are not speaking. This will prevent feedback and other technical issues. You may unmute yourself at any time you seek recognition. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Last month dr. William barber said when you suppress the right to vote, you are suppressing peoples humanity. You are saying they are not worthy of full citizenship. Unfortunately, africanamericans and other racial, ethnic and language minorities know what it is like to have the right to vote, that is, their humanity and full inclusion in our Nations Body politics, suppressed. Throughout our na