Category: Early Learning
CHILDUP BESTOF: Environment ‘Shapes Individuality’ – Early Experience Rather than Genes Forges an Individual’s Personality
Early experience rather than genes forges an individual’s personality, new research suggests. As any mother with identical twins knows, siblings who share the same genes can become very different people. The reason may lie in the subtle interplay between experience and brain development. Scientists conducted experiments with identical twin mice …
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Head Start Wins Award for STEM Curriculum
The GLCAC’s Head Start program recently won recognition for its innovation and leadership in teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics to preschoolers. In a ceremony attended by Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua, Lawrence Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Riley, parents and GLCAC staff, three prize-winning teachers were honored for using bridges and …
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Early Math and Reading Skills Linked to Job and Income in Adulthood
Children who have higher reading and math skills at age 7 are likely to have higher incomes, better housing, and better jobs in adulthood, according to a new research. The childhood abilities predict socioeconomic status in adulthood over and above associations with intelligence, education, and socioeconomic status in childhood. In …
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Required Reading: Law Says Graduating Third-Graders Must Read Proficiently
In a colorfully decorated school room located behind Mary Bethune Alternative School, a few young children look at books or play quietly with two parent educators. Another child sits with his mother at the computer, looking at a reading skills program. “These are children who are not in a child …
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Studying Childhood Learning
“Children are like little scientists,” according to Prof. Tamar Kushnir, human development, who studies the emergence of knowledge in young children in the Early Childhood Cognition Laboratory. Her research investigates how children develop a variety of cognitive abilities, ranging from their understanding of cause and effect to how they choose …
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CHILDUP BESTOF: Ready or Not for Kindergarten
As her daughter’s fifth birthday approached last year, Brandi Sutherland wrestled with whether to go ahead and enroll her in kindergarten or wait another year. Born on Aug. 16, two weeks and two days before the Texas kindergarten cutoff of Sept. 1, Sloane would have been among the youngest students — or …
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Interest in Early Education at an ‘Important Point’
President Barack Obama touted the value of early childhood education in the 2013 State of the Union address and then proposed a budget increase to improve access. Gov. Jay Nixon did the same on the state level. In Springfield, as a result of community interest, the Every Child Initiative was …
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