Word: preschooling
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...Paul’s appointment will help transform GSE into a distinguished center of scholarship on early childhood, moving us to the forefront of the national debate about the best practices for children during the preschool years,” said incoming Acting GSE Co-Dean Judith D. Singer...
Unfortunately life has not changed for everyone in Juarez: hourly pay is still about $1.25. Many workers have to travel hours each way by bus from colonias like Anapra, subdivisions that have sprung up without paved roads, water or sewer service. The homes look like preschool art projects, glued and stapled together from cardboard and plywood and tin. Bootleg power lines drop from overhead wires, loop down to the ground and are held in place by a rock, then snake through the sand to a house. Some wires are live, and arc and spit when it rains. The young women...
...Elementary offers two years of publicly supported preschool, while Dows provides space for a private preschool in its building. This early experience gives the students a jump start. "Kids need to feel comfortable in school, or they're not going to learn very well," says CAL Elementary principal Brian Costello...
...McHale, a professor of human development at Penn State University, who says parents can minimize the "handicap" of close spacing by carefully preparing the older child for the birth of the younger (don't promise an instant playmate); by teaching the children to empathize with one another in the preschool years; by helping them play without competing throughout childhood; and by continuing to spend time with the two of them--together--even after they reach adolescence...
...bright but cool in the backyard of the Duck Pond preschool in Oakland, Calif.--perfect climbing weather. So Chloe Fillinger pulled herself to the top of the play structure, where she reached for the fire fighter's pole, her three-year-old body poised for a fast ride to the bottom. Her hand flailed in empty space. "Cynthia!" she called to her teacher. "The pole is gone...