Early Childhood Education

I've visited Blacksmith Fork Canyon with a thousand or so fifth and sixth graders — a few at a time — for a day with biologists and managers. Each time, we feed wintering elk about 5,000 pounds of hay.

Allison Friedman-Krauss is an assistant research professor at the National Institute for Early Education Research, part of the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. She explained that there are federal guidelines the programs have to follow.