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One-Third of Speech Disorders Are Overlooked by Preschool Teachers
– A good number of parents face a disturbing prospect, the risk of their child having a speech disorder which was not detected during preschool or early years of primary school. Speech disorders...
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Early Learning Is Key for Children’s Success
– Neuroscience has found that a vast majority of the human brain is developed during the early years. On the other hand, two out of five American children are not enrolled in any preschool program....
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Preschool and Kindergarten Are the New First Grade
– A large new study has found that basic academic skills are learned earlier and earlier. In 2013, for example, children starting first grade had significantly better reading abilities than the pupils...
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Phonics – Sounding Out Words – Is the Most Effective Method to Learn Reading
– How children should learn to read is an old and intense controversy. Researchers from Royal Holloway University of London and the MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit wanted to know which is more...
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Math Learning Begins at Home, in the Preschool Years
– A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago has shown that math anxiety is a a problem not only in the United States but in many countries in the world. The central question of the...
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What Is the “Baby-PISA” or “Mini-PISA” Early Learning Assessment Program?
– PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment of 15-year-old students, is followed by a growing number of countries as a benchmark to compare their progress in education. Now, it seems that...
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Children Need Academic-Oriented Preschool to Be Kindergarten-Ready
– School reformers are pushing to expand public kindergarten towards more academic standards and an increasing number of children are exposed earlier and earlier to basic math and language. On one...
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Study: Why Preschoolers Need to Develop Academic Skills
– Until recently, research in early childhood education was mainly centered on disadvantaged kids while gauging the gap (as big as a full school year on average at kindergarten entry) between kids from...
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The Problem with Math Isn’t the Kids
– In the Canadian Province of Ontario, “inquiry-based learning” and teachers’ poor background in math seem to be the main culprits of a decade of decline in elementary math school scores. Most...
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How to Help your Children Develop Strong Early Math Skills
– Nowadays, most parents know all the importance of early language development, so they do a lot to help their young children in this domain. But numeracy skills are also important, perhaps even more...
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Kindergarten-Ready Kids Are Ready… for Life
– According to Dan Gartrell, director of the Child Development Training Program and professor of early childhood and elementary education at Bemidji State University in northern Minnesota, brain...
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Why a Lot of Parents and Preschool Teachers Dislike Math
– According to Deborah Stipek, a professor at Stanford University and the former dean of the School of Education, preschool children need more math. Nowadays, parents are well aware of the undisputed...
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Why You Have to Read Aloud with your Kids
– According to a recent report, “the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in literacy is reading aloud to children.” In addition to the many...
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The Long-Term Benefits of High-Quality Preschool
– Most of childhood experts will tell you that early education is very important to children’s skills and behavioral development. Preschool sets children up for success in many fundamental learning...
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Children’s Attitude Toward Math Is as Important as their IQ
– According to a recent study, attitude toward math is as important as IQ to predict the level of performance of a child. For a long time, experts observed that children who are more interested in...
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How Kids Develop and Learn in High-Quality Preschool Programs
The two most famous studies in early childhood education, the Perry Preschool Study in Michigan (in the 1960s) and the Abecedarian Project in North Carolina (in the 1970s), followed students into their...
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ChildUp Preschool Math Games
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In Order to Learn to Read, Children Need to Know the Symbols and Sounds of...
There is a large gap between the science on how kids learn to read, and how they are actually taught to read. Mark Seidenberg, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a...
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