How To Deal With The Sports Parents Social Pecking Order

Guest post by Laura McKenna, former political science professor, blogger, and freelance writer. 

Guest post by Laura McKenna, former political science professor, blogger, and freelance writer. 

Store owners are joining in the chorus of fans and players cheering the National Hockey Leagues' tentative deal on Sunday to end the lockout.

Bloomberg TV's Erik Schatzker is among the hoards of journalists in Davos, Switzerland hobnobbing with the most important people in the world. And of course, even among the most important people in the world, there are those who are more important than others and ways to know who is who.

"Every time I see one of these marches or forums covered as significant, what occurs to me is that there is one thing we should all be focused on instead. It is, of all things, the War on Drugs. The most meaningfully pro-black policy today would be a white-hot commitment to ending its idiocy.

Head Start, a preschool program for low-income kids has been a spectacular success, not for kids, but for teachers and teachers' unions. Please consider Miami-Dade County seeks to unload Head Start program, salaries

Many Europeans see their futures as increasingly being dictated by Germany and France, personified by Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy. Resentment is growing, as is resignation.It was but a glance, a little smirk that the German and French leaders shared in public when asked about Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and his country's economic woes.

By Dylan Matthews Danielle Ewen is the director of child care and early education policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), a think tank focusing on policies to support low-income people and families. A lightly edited transcript of our discussion of the current federal policy regime around child care and preschool follows.