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• Open Houses at Savannah Private Schools

  
  Southern Mamas — Authority: 135
  A slew of open houses at schools happening this season. If you are looking into schools for the 2010-2011 school year, below are a few open houses to check out. If you’d like to have a school included in this list, please email the info to anne@southernmamas.com : Blessed Sacrament School 1003 E. Victory Drive ...
  5 days ago

• The pre-k readiness skills calendar goes to…

  
  Southern Mamas — Authority: 135
  Emily Moody! Emily wins a page-a-day pre-k readiness skills calendar that focuses on the parent’s needs FIRST. The Ready To Learn Calendar was developed to equip the caregiver/parent with a way to impart needed skills to their child during normal household routine (laundry, household chores, fixing dinner, or going ...
  6 days ago

• PreK pays

  
  Teach Effectively! — Authority: 115
  According to a report from the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), a study examining the benefits of providing pre-kindergarten programs in New Mexico (US) revealed that there were significant and important benefits for children. Jason Hustedt and colleagues found that there were significant ...
  1 week ago

• Duncan: Early Ed Can Get Schools Out of The Catch-Up Business

  
  Early Ed Watch — Authority: 119
  U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the fullest picture yet of his vision for a birth-to-8 education system in remarks yesterday at the opening of the annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.   In a wide-ranging speech that emphasized the importance of "raising ...
  1 week ago

• Virginia News Stand: November 18, 2009

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 137
  Annotations & Elucidations Who’s Controversial Now? Our top story’s headline is misleading and is an excellent example of media bias. The abstinence-only speaker invited to a Henrico County high school is not causing controversy. She was invited and people may or may not attend. No student or parent ...
  1 week ago

• Virginia News Stand: November 18, 2009

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 137
  Annotations & Elucidations Who’s Controversial Now? Our top story’s headline is misleading and is an excellent example of media bias. The abstinence-only speaker invited to a Henrico County high school is not causing controversy. She was invited and people may or may not attend. No student or parent ...
  1 week ago

• ECACs: The Next Step in Systems-Building

  
  Early Ed Watch — Authority: 119
  Over the past several months, I have spent a lot of time talking to early childhood stakeholders about collaboration, and today the Early Education Initiative is releasing a policy brief based on that reporting. " The Next Step in Systems-Building: Early Childhood Advisory Councils and Federal Efforts to Promote ...
  1 week ago

• There Was an Old Lady Who Lived in A Shoe, But She is Fine & Her Kids Are, Too

  
  FreeRangeKids — Authority: 520
  Hi Folks! When not busy blogging here (and lecturing, and writing non-blogs), I run a humor contest in the magazine The Week. My question is usually a wacky twist on something in the news and last week I was fed up with that pre-school TV show in England that had tinkered with the ending of [...]
  1 week ago

• Parents Out to Get This Pre-K Teacher for “Endangering” Their Kid

  
  FreeRangeKids — Authority: 520
  Dear Readers — Take your chill pill FIRST. Then read on:Dear Free-Range Kids: I’d like to tell you about a recent experience of mine and would love to get your feedback.I am a mother of three children and a preschool teacher at a small, private preschool in my town.  About two weeks ago, my class [...]
  1 week ago

• Preschools get results in San Marcos

  
  Patrick Rose — Authority: 93
  San Marco s — Preschoolers are having fun learning letters, numbers, shapes and how to write their names. These skills are also preparing them to be good learners when they go to kindergarten next year. Three preschools in San Marcos were among 836 statewide that were recently certified as Texas School ...
  1 week ago

• 2009 Holiday Gift Guide: PRESCHOOLERS

  
  Tech Savvy Mama — Authority: 465
  PlayDoh Burge r Builder ($14.99)- PlayDoh is a classic staple of childhood but is even more fun if you can make pretend burgers, fries, and chips with the Burger Builder. The Burger Builder comes with 5 containers of PlayDoh in all the colors you need to build burgers and create fries. Stamp out burgers, pickles, ...
  1 week ago

• Department of Education Releases Race to the Top Application

  
  Early Ed Watch — Authority: 119
  Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education released the application and notice of final priorities for the Race to the Top competition, a $4.35 billion grant program that rewards states that have shown the most commitment to and progress on education reforms to improve student achievement. The final priorities and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Phonics update

  
  Spesamor Acadamy — Authority: 122
  Daniel has been working very hard at learning his phonics lately. And the best part is: he has no idea! He thinks that Mommy is making up games just to spend time with him. :) This idea originally came from something I read in one of Peggy Kayes books. I dont exactly remember which one. (fair warning, you are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Teacher, can we please have some more homework?

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 410
  scaling back on promised expansion of publicly funded pre-kindergarten, that a few upscale Washington D.C. parents are whining. In some ways, its even sadder that their concerns have become a story, but indeed they provide a window into the unfounded fears that may accompany thinking about education.And why are ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Learning Studio

  
  Inside Pre-K — Authority: 108
  When I walkinto a classroom these days I feel like I am walking into a dancestudio.  I am the only one who isnt moving, learning, expressing,struggling or stretching and as a result, find myself sticking out likea sore thumb. For one, my clothes are too clean. And generally, aclipboard and pen now accompany me. I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Re-visiting Perry preschool: The story behind the story

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 410
  study, which examined the lives of 123 African American children who were born in poverty. The study was the first of its kind to quantify the impact a high-quality preschool program had on the lives of children, and it is still widely quoted.Over the years, EarlyStories has heard countless references to the study, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Early Ed for “The Safety of Our Country”

  
  Early Ed Watch — Authority: 119
  A report last week from a new group called Mission: Readiness featured a very troubling statistic: 75 percent of young Americans cannot join the U.S. military because they are too poorly educated, have a criminal record or are overweight. But heres a promising development to go along with that startling data: The ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Jerseys new pre-k agenda: What will it be?

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 410
  EarlyStories has been waiting for the post election stories to settle down and hoping New Jersey reporters would start tackling Governor elect Chris Christies e ducation agenda, particularly when it comes to pre-kindergarten. The Associated Press took a look at the issue in a piece that ran in Education Week, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Preguntas, Preguntas: What Do We Know About Dual-Language Learners in Pre-K?

  
  Early Ed Watch — Authority: 119
  A symposium in Arlington on Tuesday brought together some of the most well-known researchers in the field of early childhood to dig into a tough and timely question: How do we help young children in the United States who know very little English? The day-long symposium, "Investigating the Classroom Experiences of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Must Have Toy List Mashup

  
  360blog — Authority: 104
  ‘Tis the season for a whole new crop of toys to find its way into your home. I’ve noticed that a number of “must have” toy lists have been announced in the past few weeks. These lists include: FunFare Magazine’s Hot Dozen Toy List KMart’s Fab 15 Toy List Time to Play’s [...]
  3 weeks ago

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