
Does your kid’s preschool teacher need a degree?
Should preschool teachers be college graduates? “Our most important teachers” — preschool teachers — are paid the least, writes Jeneen Interlandi in the New York Times Magazine. “Teaching preschoolers is every bit as complicated and important as teaching any of the K-12 grades, if not more so,” says Marcy Whitebook, a director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley. “But we still treat preschool teachers like babysitters