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Want better child care? Invest in entrepreneurial training for child care workers

  • Written by Anne Douglass, Professor of Early Care and Education Leadership, Policy, and Practice, UMass Boston
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Christine Heer – a veteran preschool teacher – had long harbored a passion to run a nature-based preschool. So in 2015 she opened Sprouts Farm and Forest Kindergarten in central Massachusetts.

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