While urban schools may face complex challenges in providing effective education for children who speak many languages, they also have access to resources and supports not found in suburban and rural areas.
Challenging behavior can signal difficulty with social and emotional adjustment鈥攆oundational competencies that are linked to children鈥檚 school readiness and later school success.
The early childhood education movement has grown steadily over the past two decades, plateaued in recent years, and currently is in dire need of reinforcements.
Louise Derman-Sparks and Evelyn Moore鈥檚 contribution to our understanding of the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool program brings to mind a century of US early childhood education history.
Motor development is a constant learning process. A child鈥檚 body is continuously growing and changing, and his environment offers different opportunities for movement.
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Sandra Petersen, Emily J. Adams, Linda Groves Gillespie
Early childhood educators encounter many ethical issues in the course of their daily work with children and families. Focus on Ethics presents such an issue and asks readers to determine how an early childhood educator might best respond to it.
We are honored to present this column about a milestone in 20th century American early care and education鈥攖he Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1962 to 1967. (A second column on the preschool will follow in the November 2016 issue of Young Children.
As a master鈥檚 student reflecting on my elementary school education, I realized that the academic knowledge that I gained each year seemed to have been related to the social and emotional feel of the classroom.
The North Carolina Office of Early Learning designed and implemented the Pre-K and Kindergarten Demonstration Program to support educators across the state in developing as early childhood teacher leaders.
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Sharon Ritchie, Eva C. Phillips, Carla Gravitte Garrett
