Word: preschooling
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Obama is trying to reform education by attracting and retaining high-quality teachers, making preschool universally available and making college affordable to all. America currently ranks 21 out of 27 among advanced economy countries in high-school completion rates—currently 67 percent, down from 77 percent in the 1970s. We can help the children reach for the stars by helping teachers fund classroom projects. The website DonorsChoose.org allows you to give to different classroom projects or needs that teachers list online. Students and teachers will send a personal thank you. You can also donate old computers and books...
...have plenty of friends who naively announce their intentions to steer clear of Disney princesses and all their insidious influence. Of course, their daughters are still toddlers who have yet to traipse off to preschool and encounter pop culture, sandbox-style. I was once one of those mothers and still strive to be. I've never bought my girls a Cinderella or Ariel costume, and our DVD collection boasts no Disney titles, yet my daughter informed me last week, apropos of nothing, that Sleeping Beauty is to be referred to as Sleeping Beauty only when she's sleeping. Awake...
...control group and referred to a variety of therapists in the greater Seattle area. Although they received less intensive therapy than the intervention group, they still got an average of nine hours a week of one-on-one therapy and another nine hours a week in a specialized preschool or other group setting...
...treatment group. Though the first few sessions were hard ("He would scream and cry and pound on the door of his room," his father recalls), Charlie soon began to enjoy the playful therapy and made steady progress in speech and behavior. Now 5½, he attends a special preschool and continues to work with therapists on social skills and language. The Lambs expect that Charlie will ultimately attend a regular school. "His autism is subtle," says Susan Lamb. "Most people say they can't tell." But like most children with autism, Charlie suffers from anxiety and is especially vulnerable...
...rational argument; fear of failure is harder to hose down. What could be more natural than worrying that your child might be trampled by the great, scary, globally competitive world into which she will one day be launched? It is this fear that inspires parents to demand homework in preschool, produce the snazzy bilingual campaign video for the third-grader's race for class rep, continue to provide the morning wake-up call long after he's headed off to college...