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Reyes, Maria Elena – Race, Gender & Class, 2001
Uses data from focus groups with Latina and Alaska Native college students to examine how the quality of their public education affected their later college achievement. Students reported arriving at college unable to perform college work. They used college labs and developmental classes to enhance their skills. Students experienced bias, racism,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Alaska Natives, College Preparation
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Repetto, Jeanne B.; Correa, Vivian I. – Exceptional Children, 1996
This position paper proposes an expanded definition of transition, based on common components of early childhood and secondary perspectives. It advocates for a seamless model of transition service delivery for students with disabilities, including program planning, from birth through age 21. The model addresses curriculum, location of services,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Curriculum, Definitions, Delivery Systems
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Alloway, Tracy Packiam; Gathercole, Susan Elizabeth; Adams, Anne-Marie; Willis, Catherine; Eaglen, Rachel; Lamont, Emily – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
This study investigates whether working memory skills of children are related to teacher ratings of their progress towards learning goals at the time of school entry, at 4 or 5 years of age. A sample of 194 children was tested on measures of working memory, phonological awareness, and non-verbal ability, in addition to the school-based baseline…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Phonological Awareness, Short Term Memory, Nonverbal Ability
Saracho, Olivia, Ed.; Spodek, Bernard, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
Social epistemology is a broad set of approaches to the study of knowledge and to gain information about the social dimensions. This intellectual movement of wide cross-disciplinary sources reconstructs the problems of epistemology when knowledge is considered to be intrinsically social. In the first chapter, "Social Epistemology and Social…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Epistemology, Socialization, Play
West, Jerry; Malone, Lizabeth; Hulsey, Lara; Aikens, Nikki; Tarullo, Louisa – Administration for Children & Families, 2010
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), was first launched in 1997 as a periodic longitudinal study of program performance. This report is the fourth in a series that uses data from the FACES 2006 cohort to describe…
Descriptors: Class Size, School Readiness, Disadvantaged Youth, Kindergarten
Fernandez, Ermitas – 1994
This chapter describes a school readiness program that has been implemented in rural Galicia (Spain) since 1977. Data reveal that 70 percent of Galicia's population lives in rural areas, the economy remains primarily agricultural, Galicians earn less than the national average and have the largest number of public assistance recipients, and there…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Disadvantaged, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
Child Care Law Center, San Francisco, CA. – 1995
An in-depth assessment of all aspects of the San Francisco School District's Child Development Program (CDP) was conducted. Assessment measures included: (1) on-site observations of preschool, kindergarten, and school-age child care classroom environments and of teacher behaviors and sensitivity; (2) reviews of physical environments and provisions…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, After School Programs, Child Development Centers, Educational Change
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. – 1995
This is a revised version of a 1990 document which identifies a direction for Iowa early childhood education through the year 2000. The document defines Iowa's shared vision for young children as: to ensure quality early childhood opportunities for all Iowa's young children. This vision is shared through the Iowa Department of Education's efforts…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Smith, Nanette – 1995
Using an action research model, this study concentrated on easing the transition into school by providing an induction program for preschool children which promotes the emotional needs of the child within the family. The research followed an ecological perspective, considering individual needs within the frameworks of school, home, and community…
Descriptors: Action Research, Early Childhood Education, Family School Relationship, Foreign Countries
Savage, Teresa – 1991
Noting that many parents who might teach their young children are often discouraged by a lack of information or fear of being labeled "pushy," this book provides parents with a step-by-step program for teaching preschoolers letters and numbers as a way of giving children a head start on formal education. The handbook consists of a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computation, Early Reading, Learning Activities
National Education Goals Panel, Washington, DC. – 1995
This document, one of four volumes comprising the 1995 Goals Report, is the fifth in a series of annual reports. This document provides in-depth information for on the progress toward the National Education Goals at the national level. The report is divided in sections pertaining to Goals 1-8. Each section discusses the Goal, identifies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adult Literacy, Alcohol Abuse
Stedman, James B.; Riddle, Wayne C. – 1992
In 1990, President Bush and the nation's governors adopted six National Education Goals for the year 2000, calling for improvements in school readiness, high school graduation rates, curriculum mastery, math and science achievement, adult literacy and skills, and drug abuse and violence levels. Congress faces two overarching issues--identifying…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Washington, DC. – 1993
Among the prescriptions for improving children's school readiness is a call for television to lead the way through the provision of ready-to-learn programing and services for the nation's preschoolers. No single element of a national ready-to-learn service will have a greater impact on its effectiveness than the programing it airs. Three…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Cable Television, Childrens Television, Cognitive Development
Hook, Jim; Shaeffer, Peggy – 1993
This report reviews the history of kindergartens in America and in the state of Wyoming, and examines current trends and future directions of kindergarten programs. Wyoming's first kindergarten was established in Sundance in 1891-92. The University of Wyoming began offering courses in kindergarten theory by the mid 1940s, and the kindergarten…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Madison, Susan Gomez; Speaker, Richard B., Jr. – 1994
This study examined the role of public preschool teachers in the construction of classroom literacy environments. Using qualitative methods for data collection and analysis, the research was intended to generate knowledge of teacher thinking and decision making for social and cultural phenomena taking place in a classroom. The study included ten…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education
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