No Longer Welcome

The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education

By: Katherine M. Zinsser

Narrated by: Brenda Scott Wlazlo

For over fifteen years, researchers have described a crisis in our nations' early learning classrooms. Hundreds of children are expelled from childcare and preschool every day; a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten-twelfth grade students. Each child's expulsion is symptomatic of a larger crisis—an overburdened, underfunded, undervalued, and fragmented early education system.

In early childhood, expulsion is the result of a series of adult decisions made within constrained contexts and at times blind to downstream consequences: exhausted and underpaid teachers deciding how to expend their limited attention and energy in a chaotic classroom; administrators on razor-thin budgets deciding among hiring additional personnel, providing high-quality training, or investing in adequate classroom resources; fragmented state agencies separately deciding on standards and policies and allocating funds for early intervention and consultation services.

By examining these complex causes, No Longer Welcome starts a critical conversation between and across sectors of the early childhood field. Drawing on her research and interviews with teachers, program administrators, parents, and policymakers, Dr. Zinsser presents the listener with a rich description of the myriad of factors contributing to the expulsion crisis.

©2023 Oxford University Press (P)2022 Tantor

Great Book. Questionable Reading

Important book for educators and parents of young children. The narrator read very slow, but speeding her up helped. It did not help the fact that she mispronounced many words, though. (For example: she pronounced “exacerbates” as “exasperbates.” Still worth a read.