Word: preschooling
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Education programs that would be held to current spending levels include special aid to handicapped and impoverished students, the preschool Project Head Start, and bilingual training for students whose primary language is not English. Reagan has long believed that education should be almost completely a local responsibility, and shares the conservative view that federal efforts have been largely ineffective. National Education Association Spokesman Howard Carroll disagreed last week, calling especially "unconscionable" a freeze on programs aimed at providing poor youngsters with basic skills...
...Americans work very hard to get to the top, and they want to feel comfortable there," says Marjabelle Stewart, who has been giving etiquette lessons for nearly two decades and now savors a sense of triumph. She offers "Petite Protocol" for preschool children; she also conducts executive seminars in table manners, which she optimistically touts as "International Dining: Eating Your Way to the Top." Stewart has franchised some 480 apostles around the country to teach "White Gloves and Party Manners" at $15 an hour, and enrollment has tripled in the past two years. Like a number of others, she credits...
...deplore the methods currently espoused by some preschool educators [EDUCATION, Oct. 8]. Kindergarten should be a place for whetting the appetite to learn, not a place for homework and tests...
...notion is backed by a new study of disadvantaged preschoolers carried out by the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation under the direction of David P. Weikart and Lawrence J. Schweinhart. In the early 1960s, researchers began to follow the progress of 123 children from poor families in Ypsilanti, Mich. Some were enrolled in a "high-quality" preschool program. The others got no such training. The researchers have monitored the children's progress ever since. Their study has found that by the age of 19, those who took the preschool classes had proved more likely to finish high school, find jobs...
...earlier." But how early? Tirozzi wants to start schooling for all children at four. So does New York State Commissioner of Education Gordon Ambach, who believes that early starts for all will give poorer children the same advantages that many of their middle-class peers already enjoy in private preschool programs. A growing number of administrators agree. They are trying to accommodate the push for early education by shifting to full-day programs. About a third of all U.S. kindergarten pupils are attending school full time, up from...