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Kindergartens and "developmentally appropriate practice"
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Join the Yahoo group KinderKorner.
You will find many resources shared by the members.
You just have to ask and they provide. It's a great group
and most of them are wishing they could stop the insanity
of bringing heavier academics into the kinderg…
Dan, very helpful. Thanks so much. I've been meaning to dig into how things are going in N.C. -- I'm hearing good things. The First Schools concept is fascinating and I'm excited to see it moving forward.
Hello Lisa,
Please see the links below. You might find some helpful information there.
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~firstschool/
http://www.ncreadyschools.org/documents/1PowerofK.pdf
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/curriculum/primaryk2/guide4earl…
I like what you said, Cathy, about reading & preschool. Lise Eliot's book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain, has some information on how the brain's evolution included language way earlier than reading/writing communication. It's relatively new brain function…
Such a hot button! Its so sad that in NYC, they have taken blocks out of Kindergarten!!!
An important statistic (that I need to check the most recent numbers) that many don't pay attention to is how many children can keep a steady beat. ALL children…
Thank you for your work, Lisa! I feel much better knowing there are people like you out there fighting for what's right for children!
The Hurried Child is a classic and invaluable resource. I wish, after 20+ years since the publication of the first edition, that it were no longer relevant; but, sadly, that's not the case. Until it is, more people need to read it -- and then take s…
Many thanks for the comments. The essay has run as an op-ed on USA TODAY http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/09/column-kindergarten-need-not-be-a-pressure-cooker.html
And I also wrote more extensive about this topic on Early Ed Watch in June. Here'…
Many thanks to everyone at BAM!street who helped me pull together information as I was writing this piece
Do you know the book "The Hurried Child"? It is also excellent and will give you even more resources to look into from the references contained there. Both focus on the importance of play. My two books are a little closer to "being born", coming out…
One word: Montessori.
It might be interesting to do some research about New Hampshire, where most towns only got public kindergartens within the last few years. In Merrimack, children whose parents couldn't afford private kindergarten wound up spending what should have b…
How is your article going? I am writing a letter to the editor and telling all the parents in our district about "The Crisis In The Kindergarten Report". I am also sending a copy to the superintendent and principal in my district. There's been lots…
Lisa,
I expect one of the books you have read from Hirsh-Pasek, et al is "Einstein Didn't Use Flash Cards". It does emphasize the element of play and how important "whole child" development is versus the narrow academic over-emphasis we see so much…
I haven't heard of this happening, but it's a fascinating idea. After all, developmentally speaking, primary-grade children are more like preschoolers than like their upper-elementary counterparts. People tend to forget that, and to treat all elemen…
Simon, Brenda and Rae --
Thanks so much for your thoughts on this. Here's another tack I'd like to consider: What do you think of pulling kindergarten (and even other early elementary grades) closer to preschool. In other words, after years of downw…
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- Professional Interests
- Child development, media and children, early education policy, cognitive science
- About Me:
- As a senior policy analyst for New America's Early Education Initiative, Ms. Guernsey focuses on how to create and scale up the best learning environments for children in their early years, from toddlerhood through third grade. In her research and writing, she works to elevate dialogue about early childhood education by analyzing new findings in developmental psychology and spotlighting best practices in homes and classrooms.
Ms. Guernsey is a regular contributor to the Early Ed Watch blog and has been writing about education, technology and social science for nearly 15 years as a staff writer at the New York Times until 2002 and at the Chronicle of Higher Education in the mid-1990s. She has contributed to many national publications over the past several years, including her former employers and The Washington Post. In 2001 she was a media fellow at Duke University's Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and in 2005 she was a journalism fellow in the Child and Family Policy Program at the University of Maryland. Her most recent book is Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age 5, published by Basic Books in 2007. Ms. Guernsey holds a master's degree in English/American Studies and a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Virginia.
- My Title/Position/Status:
- Writer and Senior Policy Analyst, Early Education Initiative at New America Foundation
- I've Been in The Field Since:
- April 17, 2002
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- Parenting, Teaching, New Research, Events, Best Practices, Next Practices
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New research, released earlier this month, on social behaviors translating into school-related skills
Over at Early Ed Watch, where I'm blogging regularly, I've been working on a series of stories about new research from the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Here's a link to the most recent post, which I thought might be of interest to many folks on BAM Street:
Making a Connection Between Social Behaviors in Preschool and… Continue
Making a Connection Between Social Behaviors in Preschool and… Continue
Posted on April 30, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment
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