In an oped for the Boston Business Journal, Professor Anne Douglass and Professor Ann Bookman respond to the public-private partnership launched by Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo and the Massachusetts Business Roundtable’s report, “The Business Imperative for Early Education.”

Excerpt: “We strongly endorse their vision and bold recommendations for rebuilding a broken workforce development system through increased compensation and professional development opportunities.

“Now that the MBR report has focused public attention on this crisis, we must address a critical question: What will it take to implement these recommendations?”

Read the full oped, “Invest in our children and our economy,” online at the Boston Business Journal.