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| | In 2002, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) began the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER) initiative to conduct rigorous efficacy evaluations of available preschool curricula. Under a competitive process, 12 research teams were awarded grants to implement and conduct research on one or two preschool curricula of their choosing with a predominantly low-income population under an experimental design. This final report presents findings for the impact of each curriculum on student-level and classroom-level outcomes. | | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | | August 2008 |
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| | Educators and psychologists have long feared that children entering school with behavior problems were doomed to fall behind in the upper grades. But two new studies suggest that those fears are exaggerated. One concluded that kindergartners who are identified as troubled do as well academically as their peers in elementary school. The other found that children with attention deficit disorders suffer primarily from a delay in brain development, not from a deficit or flaw. Experts say the findings of the two studies, being published today in separate journals, could change the way scientists, teachers and parents understand and manage children who are disruptive or emotionally withdrawn in the early years of school. | | New York Times | | December 2007 |
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| | We all know how infants can act up during their terrible twos, but when these behaviors are accompanied by developmental setbacks, they could point to something more serious. | | Science Daily | | December 2008 |
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| | On February 4, 2009, President Obama signed into law the reauthorized State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which provides insurance coverage to over 11 million children nationwide. The legislation also includes the Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act (ICHIA), which will lift a 5-year ban on eligibility for legally residing children and pregnant women. | | National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC) | | February 2009 |
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| | What separates kids who read and those who don’t? In a word, parents. | | Baltimore Examiner | | January 2009 |
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| | A new report from the National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC) entitled Recommended Transition Practices for Young Children, provides findings from a national validation survey. The report discusses 21 transition practices validated by early childhood and early childhood special education professionals. | | NECTAC eNotes | | June 2008 |
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| | In response to concerns about the limited influence research has had on early childhood (EC) programs and practices the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) conducted a small multidisciplinary conference at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin. The primary goal of the conference was to develop a set of action-oriented recommendations that would advance the field of early childhood and improve the outcomes for young children, especially children living in the most vulnerable of circumstances. | | National Association for the Education of Young Children | | May 2008 |
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| | According to a policy brief from the Action Alliance for Children, there has been a consensus among early childhood professionals that play should be a vital part of any high-quality early education program, because play benefits cognitive, social, emotional, physical and moral development. While many associate play with a break from curriculum, the fact is that play-centered preschool curriculum is not a laissez-faire approach but actually a main conduit to reinforcing instruction. | | Public Education Network | | November 2007 |
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| | Parental action can alter a preschoolers' biological response to stress, lowering the chance that even a high-risk child will become a juvenile delinquent, U.S. researchers report. The finding suggests "that antisocial behavior isn't hard wired, and parents can be part of the solution," lead author Laurie Miller Brotman, associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, said in a prepared statement. | | The Washington Post | | October 2007 |
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| | These short, web-based publications from the National Forum on Early Childhood Program Evaluation summarize the results and implications of recently published studies evaluating the effects of childhood programs and conditions. | | Harvard's Center on the Developing Child | | October 2008 |
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