and elsewhere have demonstrated positive benefits for school readiness. For the positive benefits of early childhood programs to be long-lasting, programs must be of high quality and focus on didactic learning activities (letters and numbers), while encouraging play-oriented and discovery-learning ...
“readiness” before they enter grade school. In practice, however, this objective has proven difficult to achieve. Every year, large numbers of children have difficulty adapting to grade school, and these data make it clear that there is considerable variation in the exte...
language, and cognitive skills; the role that extracurricular activities play in shaping children's school achievement, including differences based on gender, ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic status; family processes underlying the development of behavioral control and its impact on school readiness. "...
Results: At pretest but not posttest, program language moderated the direct relation between parents' education level and children's school readiness and parents with high levels of education were more likely to engage their children in educational activities. Engagement in h...
Home Visiting Programs Designed for Older Preschool Children Home visiting programs designed to enhance the school readiness of preschool children often focus on specific parent-child learning activities and home teaching strategies.17-19 For example, parents are taught how to: engage children in convers...
“The highest ranked public schools in the 2023-2024 Best High Schools national rankings were those whose students achieved exceptional scores on state assessments for math, reading and science. These schools also had strong underserved student performance, college readiness and curriculum breadth, as ...
As independent operators, pre-schools want their programming to be attractive to tuition-paying parents. Attractiveness too often looks like “fun time” activities and too seldom like pre-reading activities. And, don’t be afraid to publicly appreciate the school readiness traditions of certain pre...
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activities. Surprisingly, teachers did not attach particular importance to specific numeracy and literacy skills.22Another study found that teachers place greater emphasis on self-regulatory and interpersonal skills rather than academic competence.23Parents, in contrast, typically define readiness in terms ...
s (ALA)Core Competences for Librarianship(2023).The results, in concert with other ongoing activities, will inform program planning by shining a bright light on employer and other stakeholder priorities while also including a thorough review and update of the MLIS program’s mission and curriculum....