September 2, 2007 – 8:09 pm
Maybe it is because I used to be a preschool teacher, but preschool is just not something I have ever stressed over. Read to your children, play with them and talk to them. That is all the “kindergarten readiness” they need. After all, isn’t kindergarten supposed to be about “school readiness?” [...]
One of Education Sector’s eight recommendations for presidential candidates to tackle in the coming election is early childhood education. They propose $18.4 billion annually to bring No Child Left Behind to four year olds. It isn’t quite universal preschool, for they set the income limit at $50,000.
At what point in considering scientifically based [...]
As the state of Nebraska has set aside money for an early childhood endowment and I somewhat passively view the increasing fervor surrounding preschool education, I cannot help but wonder what exactly we as a nation are desiring for our youngest members. There is a great deal of research out there confirming that early [...]
December 21, 2006 – 2:58 pm
Earlier, I posted about the universal preschool efforts by Virginia. Governor Kaine has just revealed the next step in achieving his goal: universal tracking of Kindergartners. Information will be collected on the child’s pre-Kindergarten education, including: daycare, private or public preschool and home life. Why am I not surprised? I bet KidTrax would be a [...]
December 10, 2006 – 3:46 am
Virginia is planning a pilot program for the state’s proposed universal preschool program, an issue that helped Governor Timothy M. Kaine get elected. The pilot program is to begin next year for 1,000 children. The results will be looked at as the program is gradually expanded to include all four year olds in [...]
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