Word: preschooling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...numbers 77,000 professionals. Today it examines teachers and administrators, demands that early-childhood programs meet criteria of health and safety and continually reviews facilities to make sure its standards are being met. When the association outlines the future it wants, it often points to the Perry Preschool Project in Ypsilanti, Mich. Back in 1962, this project selected 123 children ages three and four to take part in an experimental program. All came from families at the poverty level. Half the group was given two years of preschool instruction, 2 1/2 hours a day, five days a week...
...been hardest for veterans who are single parents. Last November, June Cooper of Mesa, Ariz., left behind her son Jason, 4, who is deaf in one ear, when the 403rd Combat Support Hospital, an Arizona reserve unit, was called up. The boy spent weekdays with the director of his preschool and weekends with his grandparents. When Cooper returned after a six-month tour of duty in Saudi Arabia, she found it was a struggle at first. "Jason just clung to my side, everywhere I went -- he even followed me to the bathroom. He was always asking, 'Mom, where...
...that the workadaddy-housewife family is dead. Homemaking mothers married to breadwinning fathers still make up the largest category of families with young children. The "Ozzie and Harriet" arrangement represents one-third of the nation's 14.8 million families with preschool children, although dual- income households (28.8% as of 1987) are rapidly catching up. Also gaining is the single-parent family, because of divorce and the explosive rise in births to unwed mothers: up from 5% of all births in 1960 (and 22% of all black births) to 22% in 1985 (60% of blacks...
...then he wouldn't know. Aside from a brief stint in preschool, Bo, 15, ) has never been in a classroom. While his peers puzzle through the mysteries of a new high school year, he sits at home, quietly exploring the arcana of radio waves. He is a ham-radio fanatic, can take down Morse code at 13 words per minute and is aiming to get his fourth-level ham license. He has taught himself how to use a wood lathe and is rereading Mark Twain. Bo plans to go to college. He will master the artificiality of entrance exams when...
...leave, though they are less likely to need it since day care, health care and early education are widely available in that country. In France, as well as in Belgium, Italy and Denmark, at least 75% of children ages 3 to 5 are in some form of state-funded preschool programs. In Japan both the government and most companies offer monthly subsidies to parents with children. In Germany parents may deduct the cost of child care from their taxes. "Under our tax laws," observes Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado, "a businesswoman can deduct a new Persian rug for her office...