Understanding School Readiness in Context: The Quality-Assurance Dilemma for Pre-K DirectorsA growing body of research suggests that any serious effort to eliminate the achievement gap in U.S. schools must address the school-readiness gap upon school entry (Sadowski, 2006). As a result, ...
this concept implies that an important objective for the early childhood years is to ensure that young children achieve a state of “readiness” before they enter grade school. In practice, however, this objective has proven difficult to achieve. Every year, large numbers...
A school-readiness intervention, facilitated by Community Health Nursing (CHN) students, was conducted as an effort to provide parents with the skills to contribute towards their preschool children’s early childhood development. The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of parents ...
12 As a result, researchers, policy-makers, educators and parents grapple with what it means for children to be “ready” for school. This brief report summarizes evidence on school transition and readiness with the goal of describing stakeholders’ definitions of readiness, characteristics of child...
Our study contributes to the growing literature on the importance of recognizing the heightened risk of early and compounding adversity in school readiness outcomes for young children with special needs. Implications for early intervention timing and the need to consider readiness for preschool are ...
To examine a) the feasibility of delivering a summer treatment program for pre-kindergarteners (STP-PreK) with externalizing behavior problems (EBP) and b) the extent to which the STP-PreK was effective in improving children's school readiness outcomes. Participants for this study included 30 pr...
Parents and public officials are increasingly concerned about the school readiness of young children. In recent years, state governments have boosted their support for pre-K programs. Several states, including Oklahoma, have opted for universal pre-K, making pre-K available to all four-year-olds ...
initially go through a forty-day school readiness programme to prepare them for formal education. unicef.org 因为许多孩子从未上过学,所以 ,他们首先要参加一个为期40天的学 前 准备项 目, 为接受正规教育打好基础。 unicef.orgIt was encouraged by Chile’s readiness to guarantee access to education...
there has been an increase in early childhood programs as well as research literature investigating school readiness. Programs began to foster and teach academic and social skills that are necessary for all children to develop in order to succeed in school. During this time, early childhood programs...
Under the policy framework, MOE has embarked upon various initiatives since 2000 which focused on defining desired outcomes, developing a curriculum framework, establishing systems and structures for teacher training, introducing self-appraisal for quality improvements, and enhancing school readiness of ...