Word: kindergartening
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Over the last two decades, things have changed for Randolph. Now a single mother of two--she and her husband are divorced--she speaks fluent English, works as a kindergarten teaching assistant at the Graham & Parks School and recently moved into a new townhouse...
...KINDERGARTEN AN EXTRA YEAR IN PRE-K IS WORTH CONSIDERING Parents who send their "late-five" children to kindergarten with classmates who have already turned six years old often think they're giving them a jump start on learning. But a new analysis from the renowned Fullerton study says although late fives at first seem more advanced than same-age peers who start school a year later, any advantage disappears by fifth grade. The Fullerton study is a longitudinal analysis of 130 kids (now adults), all of whom could have started kindergarten as late fives but half of whom were...
...drifted into consciousness long enough to open his arms to his daughter, rock her in them and make one request. "Just stay with me," he said. That was their last conversation. Since his death, Pincus has tried to keep occupied. In the quiet hours, after a day spent teaching kindergarten and before her husband gets home, she sinks into deep sorrow and longing. "It's a hole, and it doesn't go away," she says. "I never thought about being orphaned until my rabbi said...
...Some people apply for citizenship when their kids enter kindergarten, and when their kids have graduated from high school they still don't have their citizenship," Braude said...
...address from the Health and Human Services Department to the Education Department and emphasize educational pursuits like word recognition and counting over social services. The cost of this change? Zero. Bush saves his dollars for his $5 billion reading initiative, which does not kick in until kids reach kindergarten...