Tag: preschool
Michigan Moves on Preschool for All
As President Biden’s American Families Plan meets opposition in Congress, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is moving forward with a $400 million dollar plan to expand the state’s Great Start Readiness Program so that it...
Study Shows Preschool Boosts Graduation Rates
New research shows that attending a Boston public preschool led to positive long-term impacts on educational attainment as attendees were more likely to graduate from high school and enroll in college. The short-term effect...
Preschoolers Continue to Lose Learning Opportunities from Pandemic
Children from 3 to 5 years of age have lost important learning opportunities due to the pandemic, according to a nationwide survey by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at the Rutgers...
Pre-K Quality Stalls in NYC
Young children from low-income New York City families—many of them Black and Latinx—face continued disadvantages resulting from lower-quality preschools...
Beginning Bilingual
Approaches to training dual-language preschool teachers in California
For the first time, this fiscal year the California Department of Education awarded $5 million through the Dual Language Learners Professional Development Grant to six organizations to...
Big Apple Goes Bilingual
NYC Launches 47 New, Free Pre-K Dual-Language Programs
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools
Chancellor Richard A. Carranza kicked off the first day of Pre-K and 3-K for All applications by announcing that...
Preschool Reading Boosts Language Skills by Eight Months
A new review of existing research finds that receptive language skills—the ability to understand information – are improved by the equivalent of eight months of development when preschool youngsters read with someone who...
Bringing Chinese to Preschoolers
Lauren Cortinas presents a
solution for the youngest learners of Mandarin
In October 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing entirely in Mandarin Chinese. While his delivery was not perfect, the...