Category: Early Learning
Transitional Kindergarten Is for New Kids on the Block
When the Murrieta Valley Unified School District began planning for Transitional Kindergarten, a new state-mandated program, administrators expected to offer three classes. Transitional Kindergarten, a two-year kindergarten program that districts across the state of California have begun to implement in response to the passage of the Kindergarten Readiness Act of …
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A Self-Fulfilling Cycle: Since When Is It OK to Be Bad at Math?
Math Problem: Lack of Skills Has Effects in Region, Country. One parent came because he could barely help his daughter with her 8th-grade homework. Another because math frightened her. And another because algebraic equations were as foreign as Chinese symbols. In the cafeteria of Fall Mountain Regional High School earlier …
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Why Tiger Moms Are Great: Tiger Parents Express their Love Through Expectation of Greatness, Not in Acceptance of Mediocrity
It’s time for some tiger cubs to approvingly roar for our strict parents, their domineering ways and their inflexibly high standards. The current depiction of tiger parenting is decidedly negative. Kim Wong Keltner’s book on “Tiger Babies Strike Back” and Su Yeong Kim’s report “Does Tiger Parenting Exist? Parenting Profiles …
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Do We Really Need Kindergarten Graduations? Some Moms Say Absolutely!
You’re baby is through with kindergarten and that means a few things. For example, he’s probably a little more embarrassed about mommy kisses in front of his friends, he actually has an opinion about what he wears, and, it’s graduation time! For most kids, kindergarten is pretty major. After all, …
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CHILDUP BESTOF: Most Math Being Taught in Kindergarten Is Old News to Students
Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes — skills the students have already mastered before ever setting foot in the kindergarten classroom, new research finds. The findings reveal a misalignment between what the students are being …
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Children Who Only Read On-Screen Are Significantly Less Likely to Enjoy Reading and Less Likely to Be Strong Readers
Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills and are less likely to enjoy it as a pastime, charity warns. – Survey of 35,000 pupils finds majority of youngsters now read on screen – ebooks also reducing the number of children who enjoy reading as a pastime – …
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Dual Language in Early Education Best for Youngest ELLs, Report Says
Young English-language learners who are still developing oral and literacy skills in their home languages benefit most in early-childhood programs that regularly expose them to both languages. That’s one of several major takeaways in a new federally funded analysis of the large, and growing, population of dual-language learners, ranging from …
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Reading Wars Pit Literacy Instruction Methods Against Each Other
The most complex war you’ve probably never heard of has been waged in elementary school reading lessons for at least 50 years. The “reading wars” pit what literacy experts call “phonics-based” instruction against “whole language” instruction. Battles over which approach is more effective have raged in academic ivory towers, but …
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