An article in the New York Times Magazine offers a detailed look at how trends in kindergarten cut-off ages are affecting the quality of the kindergarten education and the experiences of young children in kindregarten classrooms. The author reports on recent research that teases out the effects of "relative age" and shows that children who are among the youngest relative to their peers may struggle academically and socially. The author also questions the increasing academic focus of kindergartens throughout the nation and explores these effects on young children. A must-read for parents of young kids!
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Monday, June 4
When Should A Kid Start Kindergarten?
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MFB
on Mon 04 Jun 2007 01:25 PM EDT
Wednesday, May 23
High Quality Early Child Care May Reduce The Risk for Depression
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MFB
on Wed 23 May 2007 05:34 PM EDT
Children of low income families benefit from quality educational child care as the involvement appears to protect children against the negative effects of their home environments. The early intervention, for young children from infancy to age 5, appears to make a difference in decreasing symptoms of depression in early adulthood. The report, from the FPG Child Development Institute (FPG) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, uses data from the Abecedarian Project, a longitudinal study begun in 1972 in which 111 high-risk children were randomly assigned to early educational child care from infancy to age 5 or to a control group that received various other forms of child care. The study is published in the May/June 2007 issue of the journal Child Development. Read more here.... Tuesday, April 10
Harsh Picture of Boston Preschools
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MFB
on Tue 10 Apr 2007 04:00 PM EDT
The Boston Globe offers up some harsh criticism of early childhood programs in Boston schools. The assessment was conducted by the Wellesley Centers for Women.
"Boston's public preschool and kindergarten programs are hobbled by
mediocre instruction, unsanitary classrooms, and dangerous schoolyards,
according to a first-ever study of the programs." Read more at The Boston Globe or scroll down at the Wellesley Centers for Women site here. |
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