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From the Ted Talk by Chris Bennett: A close-to-home solution for accessible childcare

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

And what this shortage does is it leaves parents having to choose between their _______ and _________. Even in places where there's free childcare or public pre-K options, there's not enough spots. So parents are forced to drive across town for options that don't meet their needs. They're forced to wait in these really long wait lists and succumb to lotteries to try to get into programs. And this ________ isn't due to us not trying. In the '70s, we pinned our hopes on __________ to solve our problems. _____, the touch-screen generation's learning how to _____, how to read, using apps and games, but apps and games can't care for our children. Apps and games can't ______ diapers, can't ensure our children are getting access to the appropriate socio-emotional growth that they need. And there hasn't been enough money, enough teachers, enough classrooms. We've tried everything, we haven't been able to _____ it.

Solution

  1. careers
  2. count
  3. change
  4. solve
  5. television
  6. shortage
  7. today
  8. childcare

Original Text

And what this shortage does is it leaves parents having to choose between their careers and childcare. Even in places where there's free childcare or public pre-K options, there's not enough spots. So parents are forced to drive across town for options that don't meet their needs. They're forced to wait in these really long wait lists and succumb to lotteries to try to get into programs. And this shortage isn't due to us not trying. In the '70s, we pinned our hopes on television to solve our problems. Today, the touch-screen generation's learning how to count, how to read, using apps and games, but apps and games can't care for our children. Apps and games can't change diapers, can't ensure our children are getting access to the appropriate socio-emotional growth that they need. And there hasn't been enough money, enough teachers, enough classrooms. We've tried everything, we haven't been able to solve it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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older children 2
children learned 2
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childcare programs 2
program parents 2
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san francisco 2
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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
start childcare programs 2

Important Words

  1. access
  2. apps
  3. care
  4. careers
  5. change
  6. childcare
  7. children
  8. choose
  9. classrooms
  10. count
  11. diapers
  12. drive
  13. due
  14. ensure
  15. forced
  16. free
  17. games
  18. growth
  19. hopes
  20. learning
  21. leaves
  22. lists
  23. long
  24. lotteries
  25. meet
  26. money
  27. options
  28. parents
  29. pinned
  30. places
  31. problems
  32. programs
  33. public
  34. read
  35. shortage
  36. solve
  37. spots
  38. succumb
  39. teachers
  40. television
  41. today
  42. town
  43. wait