Anne Mitchell

Anne Walsh Mitchell was born May 26, 1950 in Hingham, Massachusetts to Kate Margaret Walsh Mitchell and Robert Buck Mitchell. She is a consultant in the early childhood education field and President of Early Childhood Policy Research in Climax, New York and is the immediate past president of the Board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.Governing Board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, accessed 29/12/2006 at http://naeyc.org/about/board.asp] She is also the co-founder, with Louise Stoney, of the Alliance on Early Childhood Finance.Alliance on Early Childhood Finance, accessed 29/12/2006 at www.earlychildhoodfinance.org]

Personal life

Anne Mitchell has been married to Phillip Hershberger since 22 October, 1982 and is the mother of Amelia Hershberger.

Educational background

Mitchell graduated from Wellesley College in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science degree in astronomy and received her Master of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education Leadership from the Bank Street College of Education in 1988. She is also the recipient of a Certificate in Early Childhood Leadership Development (1995) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Anne Mitchell's Biography, accessed 29/12/2006 at www.earlychildhoodfinance.org/handouts/mitchellstoneybios.doc]

Professional background

Mitchell begun her professional career as a teacher-director of a child care center in a low-income house development in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In the early 1980s, Mitchell began working for the Bank Street College of Education, eventually becoming the Associate Dean of the Research Division, a post she held through 1991.

Mitchell's work has included national studies of state and local prekindergarten policy and early care and education finance. She has also written widely on child care and early education policy and practice. Her publications include "Early Childhood Programs and the Public Schools: between Promise and Practice" (1989); "A Proposal for Licensing Individuals who practice Early Care and Education" (1995); the 1997 and 2001 editions of "Financing Child Care in the United States"; "Education for all Young Children: the role of states and the Federal Government in promoting Prekindergarten and Kindergarten" (2001); "The State with Two Prekindergarten Programs: a look at Prekindergarten Education in New York State" 1928-2003 (2004); "The Price of School Readiness: a tool for estimating the cost of Universal Preschool in the States" (2004) and "Success Stories: State Investment in Early Care and Education in Illinois, North Carolina and Rhode Island" (2005).

Mitchell is an elected member of the Greenville New York Board of Education. She also served five years on the State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching appointed by the New York State Board of Regents. In 2003, she received one of the first Champions for Children awards from the New York State Association for the Education of Young Children.

Mitchell is currently the President of Early Childhood Policy Research, an independent consulting firm specializing in evaluation research, policy analysis and planning on child care/early education issues for government, foundations and national nonprofit organizations.

References

External links

* [http://www.naeyc.org National Association for the Education of Young Children]
* [http://www.earlychildhoodfinance.org Alliance on Early Childhood Finance]