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How Preschool Teachers Leverage Student Curiosity into Early STEM Exploration
June 24, 2019
Preschool kids are full of curiosity so it’s the perfect time to introduce them to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts. At Educare New Orleans preschool teachers have been trained to teach STEM ideas through play. They set up play centers that explore concepts like building and states of matter. At first many of the adults thought…
Imagine an America in which every child starts off on the right foot
June 24, 2019
Babies, as it turns out, learn more, and earlier, than most of us know. Humans, in fact, are born learning, as scientists have discovered in decades of research on infant brain development. Before a newborn is even a few hours old, he or she will readily mimic an adult who pokes out their tongue. Learning…
Preschools face uphill battle in northern Michigan
June 21, 2019
Researchers say if your kid goes to a good preschool, they’ll be better off as an adult. A four-decade study from the HighScope Educational Research Foundation looked at the long-term effects preschool had on students. It found that kids who went to high-quality preschools grew up to have higher incomes and IQs than those who didn’t….
Early learning is a predictor of lifelong success, more Utah kids need to attend preschool, lawmakers told
June 21, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY — Fewer than half of Utah kids are participating in preschool before going to kindergarten, and Utah lawmakers believe more could be done to help young children succeed later in life. “It’s cheaper to spend the money early,” said Rep. Lowry Snow, R-St. George, chairman of the Education Interim committee , which discussed early childhood…
Subsidized preschools benefit thousands of preschoolers
June 21, 2019
More than 900 preschools around Taiwan have joined a government subsidization program since it began last year, benefiting 92,000 preschoolers, government officials said Friday. The number of kindergartens that have signed an agreement with the government to take part in the subsidy program reached 911 as of Thursday, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said at a…
APM documentary about Perry Preschool: ‘Early Lessons’
June 21, 2019
Dateline: An American Public Media documentary , “Early Lessons,” about the lessons from the Perry Preschool Project. The Perry Preschool Project is one of the most famous education experiments of the last 60 years. The study asked a question: Can preschool boost the IQ scores of poor African-American children and prevent them from failing in school? The surprising results…
Helping Preschoolers Build Self-Regulation Skills That Are The Foundation Of Success
June 21, 2019
Preschool is an important time for children to build pro-social behaviors and learn to get along with other kids in a school setting. Recently, there has been more emphasis on academic preparation in preschool, but just as important, are the social and emotional skills kids will need to succeed when they move into kindergarten. Educare New Orleans Early Childhood School is…
ASD to focus on preschool after study ranks Alaska 49th in US education
June 21, 2019
Jun 19, 2019 New national statistics on the well-being of children in the U.S. show Alaska near the bottom of the ranks for education. The 2019 Kids Count Data Book released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation ranks the state 49th in the category , just ahead of New Mexico. During the announcement of the data Monday, president and CEO of Alaska Children’s Trust Trevor Storrs said the…
Washington lags the country in preschool, and child poverty is growing, new study says
June 21, 2019
Less than half of Washington’s 3- and 4-year-olds attend preschool of any kind. Just 8% of them have access to publicly funded, high-quality prekindergarten. Those are some of the findings from the KIDS COUNT Data Book, published annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and released Monday. (The Annie E. Casey Foundation also funds Education…
‘Lost opportunity’: Most 4-year-olds are left out of Indiana’s preschool expansion
June 21, 2019
Jun 11, 2019 As soon as Alina Keller walked into the home daycare, she wondered whether her son would be safe if she sent him there, let alone prepared for kindergarten next year. For $100 per week, the daycare would downgrade 5-year-old Liam to using a sippy cup, put him down for three-hour naps, and…