Entries tagged with 'kindergarten readiness'
A telling story of early intervention in Oregon
Consider the way Betsy Hammond of The Oregonian told the story of how one state is attempting to help young children with developmental delays. Hammond visited a center that operates seven preschool classes for students and described how teachers...
Teachers: Preparation begins in pre-school
Some fascinating findings came out of a comprehensive survey of U.S. teachers, released this morning at Scholastic headquarters in lower Manhattan. The results of a questionnaire on American education sent to some 40,000 teachers found many teachers have doubts...
A sorry scam in Wisconsin keeps kids from learning
EarlyStories was both horrified and heartened by an expose in the Journal Sentinel of Milwaukee that looked at ways thousands of children from low-income families in Wisconsin are being kept out of kindergarten. The horrifying part were the facts...
Are gifted children born, made or purchased?
A number of fascinating issues came up in "The Myth of the Gifted Child,'' a cover story in New York Magazine this week by Jennifer Senior that looked at intelligence tests for gifted programs. The story had lots of...
New tool asks: Are kids ready for kindergarten?
For the first time, Chicago public schools will formally measure just how ready little learners are for kindergarten, by piloting a new readiness measurement, according to a story in Catalyst. Unlike a standardized test, the tool will gauge how...
Teacher, can we please have some more homework?
It is sad fact of life that in a time of economic crisis, as states are scaling back on promised expansions of publicly funded pre-kindergarten, that a few upscale Washington D.C. parents are whining. In some ways, it's even...
Informal education, supports improve school readiness
For years, the term "school readiness,'' has centered on how literate young children are when they enter school for the first time, based on both their familiarity with numbers and related concepts. A new study from Madhabi Chatterji, Associate...
The New Pre-Schoolers: Tested, and Ready for Business?
Two recent articles shed light on some of the pressures our youngest learners are facing, not through any choice of their own. The first was a fascinating piece in Sunday's New York Times magazine by Paul Tough, the author...
Profiling 'Kindergarten Camps,'' and Readiness Efforts
EarlyStories remembers well what it's like to drum up school stories during the summer. Typically, education journalists focus on administrative changes and budget matters. That's why it was nice to see Gregory Trotter of the Springfield News Leader delve...
The New Kindergarten: Say Goodbye to Playtime?
It's hard to imagine a room filled with five and six-year-olds cramming for exams instead of, say, playing charades or building a castle with Legos. EarlyStories came across this provocative report while scrolling through the excellent Gotham Schools blog....
Pilot Program Could Hold Key to Kindergarten Success
Early Stories posed some questions this week about how pre-kindergarten students are tracked and assessed, a topic that came up in Maryland Governor O'Malley's education speech. Turns out there are many ways, and one revealing answer came from reading...
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