Many children come to kindergarten with insufficient social skills to participate in the activities necessary for academic achievement. Children enrolled in prekindergarten programs across the United States are expelled at higher rates than older students. Boys are expelled 4 1/2 times more often than girls. When children excluded from…

The itinerant service delivery model is used across the United States to provide services to young children (ages 3 years-6 years) with disabilities whose primary placement is a community-based early childhood program. Although this model is a common component of the least-restrictive-environment continuum of service delivery options, the roles…

Children face many important changes in the first eight years of life, including different learning centres, social groups, roles and expectations. Their ability to adapt to such a dynamic and evolving environment directly affects their sense of identity and status within their community over the short and long term. In particular, the key turning…

Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning-Revised (DIAL-R), a developmental test for children two to six years old, was modified minimally and translated for use in Taiwan. The test meets the standard of a technically adequate screening test for that culture, giving it criterion-referenced meaning. (Author/LHW)

Homelessness is a growing social problem in the United States. Especially vulnerable to this phenomenon are young children because homelessness is viewed as a breeding ground for disabilities. Despite federal legislation ensuring educational opportunities, the educational needs of children who are homeless are frequently unfulfilled. This article…

Early childhood classrooms are far from homogeneous. Today, 43 percent of children in the United States under age five are of a race or ethnicity other than White. While the demographic characteristics of young children have become more diverse, their teachers have not. The vast majority of teachers (68 percent) are White as is 80 percent of…

Lists the 89 oldest child-care centers in the United States and Canada. For each center the list includes organization name, location, current chief executive officer, and date founded. (ET)

The mission of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children through age 4 who are at nutritional risk. WIC provides nutritious foods to supplement diets, nutrition education, and referrals to health care and other social services.…

Based on 30 years' experience, the author advocates a balanced approach that accommodates extremes in four important areas: curriculum, teaching, structure, and classroom management. Using a whole-language approach to reading should not mean that phonics, spelling, or punctuation skills can't be taught. Authoritarian and open classroom structures…

In the United States, government funding underwrites the cost of child care services for over 1.7 million children from income-eligible families. About one in four American children served by these subsidies is cared for in a setting where a state-issued license to operate is not required, but in many states the percentages are higher. In…

This study compared how parents in Germany and the United States perceive the quality of early childhood education services received by their children. In both countries, parents indicated high importance for the aspects measured in the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale. Parents assigned substantially higher quality scores to their…

Describes the changing ways child observation is being used by preschool teachers in the United States and Australia in relation to the accountability movement pressuring young children and their teachers in both countries. Explores the costs of the accountability movement in early childhood education. Calls for genuine accountability based on…

This portion of a larger comparative study of full day kindergarten (FDK) versus half-day kindergarten (HDK) classrooms highlights the effects of FDK versus HDK on the achievement of students with low/moderate income status. Authors collected statistical and semi-structured interview data from one large and two other school corporations in the…

This volume of transformed research utilizes an activist approach to examine the notion that nothing is apolitical. Research projects themselves are critically examined for power orientations, even as they are used to address curricular problems and educational or societal issues. Philosophical perspectives that have facilitated an understanding…

This study examined whether FBA and function-based intervention methods developed in the U.S. would be effective if applied in a public school classroom in South Korea. Participants were three young children with severe mental retardation whose severe challenging behaviors put them at risk for removal from an inclusive kindergarten program. The…