Sharing Web Resources

        As I study the Division of Early Childhood website I realize that alot of important information comes from the policy and advocacy link and the what's new link . I feel that these two link allows an individual to stay in the circle of what is going on when it comes to policy making in early childhood. Some controversional pieces I found particular about this website is the sections that link you to the recents activities of early childhood and the support out work link.
      Under the support our link it states that "our mission is to promote polices and advances evidence-based practices that support families and enhance the optimal development of young children who have or are at risk for developmental delays and disabilities" and under the recent activities link it clearly states of all the recent activites that has been going on with the division of early childhood.
        I feel the information that is shared on this site is up to date because of the recent activition section on the site. It allows you to be inform on what has been going on the past week rather than the past months like some websites. I feel with the more recent information that is given for a person to research the more a person would want to become apart of that organization.
      I feel that of other websites I have been observing this particular website is more informative.

International Connects pt2

               As you all know I have two friends that are over in Korea to teach english in the school systems. I wouldlike to introduce to you my two friends Erica Goodrich and Ryan Hurd III. I only spoke with Ryan very briefly this week because of the disaster that has happen over in Japan and the last thing he wanted to talk about was teaching anything because he was still shaken up from what he had experience and when we briefly talked he sent me a message on facebook to let me know he was okay and was in the process of trying to get back to the states. When I spoke to Erica I was able to speak with her briefly on the poverty level in China and how is it compared to being in the United States.
          
                        
                    Erica began to tell me how the area she is in she hasn't experience any poverty areas, but she did enlighten me on the poverty that is in the rural area Beijing were she is doing her teaching. As we were talking I couldn't believe half of the stuff she was telling me because she expressed to me that China's poverty is worst than the United States. She made me realize that the United State's poverty is not bad as the media make it seems. Erica also shared with me that one thing that maybe different with the United States governement and China's governement is that China's goverenment works hard to almost immediately to resolve their issues to make it better.  Once Erica and I was finished talking I researched on some of the things she shared with me and this is what I found.


             

              The 1990s saw the most radical economic restructuring in China since gradualist economic reform began in 1978. Three important reform measures may have contributed to the growth  of poverty: food price, social welfare, and enterprise reforms. Before reform, food prices in urban China were highly subsidised through a coupon ration system, whereby coupons were distributed according to the number of family members and their ages. In the late 1970s and early 1980s market orientated reforms in the agriculture sector led to significant increases in production and to the introduction of an urban two-tier food price system, in that urban households received subsidised food coupons but were also free to purchase better and more varieties of food in the market place. Gradually, however, the government increased subsidised food prices so that two-tier prices were almost equal to each other (Tang, 1998). When the government finally abolished food coupons in 1993, workers were compensated by an explicit wage subsidy at a universal rate. Households with more non-working members, however, were disadvantaged because food coupons had been distributed according to the number of household members and their ages, while the explicit wage subsidies were distributed only to household working members. In addition, financial help for transportation, rent, and many other consumption items were switched from implicit price subsidies to explicit income subsidies. All these changes would have had an adverse impact on large households with less working members ( Tang,1998).

I can't help but think how this makes the United States lok at this point.

Changing Demographics and Diversity

The organization I decided to share with you is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Science www.aspe.hhs.gov. This current issue that I decided to discuss is Childhood Obesity in African American Children even though it is an issue amongst all races and nationalities I wanted to focus more on African American. The website demostrated graphs and other statisitics that showed the difference of overweight children broken down by nutrition and eating habits, physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors, socio-economic status and race/ethnicity,genetics, advertising and marketing.
One thing about childhood obesity period it is going to be an ongoing issue until I feel they put physical education back as a high needed area. Just of that issue I will continue to try to prompt a health lifestyle for our early childhood children so that will ot fall into the traps of laziness.

My International Connection

       At first I wasn't to sure how I was going to establish this assignment and I will say that I open this particular link at lease 8 times within the past 48 hours. The once I got in today I told myself to just think of the assignment and work on it on Saturday. As I began to think I realize that I have 2 friends that are overseas teaching early childhood and I looked them up on my faceboook and twitter to see if they were still out of the country and luckily both of them were. Both of my friends are teaching English as a second language in Korea to the early childhood students, however one is in China, and one is in Japan. At this point I am really looking forward to comparing and contrasting notes with them during this duration of class.