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Leadership Transitions: What Do Directors Experience?, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
Leadership Transitions: What Do Directors Experience?, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications
The Center for Early Childhood Leadership recently conducted a study of 401 directors from 21 states and the District of Columbia on leadership transition.
The Government's Efforts To Improve Reading Of Young Children, Lea Lee, Abha Gupta
The Government's Efforts To Improve Reading Of Young Children, Lea Lee, Abha Gupta
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications
Reviews four major federal initiatives to improve early reading and literacy programs in the U.S.: Title One Reading program, the Reading Excellence Act, Even Start Family Literacy Program, and the Leave No Child Behind Act. Concludes that these expensive reading programs have not been very successful.
Please Pass The Crackers: Classroom Rules In The Early Childhood Environment And Their Impact On Moral Development, Odette C. Muskin
Please Pass The Crackers: Classroom Rules In The Early Childhood Environment And Their Impact On Moral Development, Odette C. Muskin
Graduate Student Independent Studies
One of the major public debates in education today revolves around an area of study called character education. It is a debate that is politically, socially, emotionally and educationally charged. The question facing educators is whether children develop morally from a specific plan of study or from the examples given to them by adults in their environment. In an attempt to answer this question, this study focuses on the early childhood environment. It does so because young children in preschool must begin to formulate conceptions of rights, values and principles as it pertains to social conduct. They must learn to …
Staffing And Stability In State-Funded Prekindergarten Programs, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
Staffing And Stability In State-Funded Prekindergarten Programs, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications
The Center for Child Care Workforce found variations in staffing depending on whether pre-K programs were housed in publicly operated or privately operated settings. The following summarizes the key findings of the study as well as implications and recommendations for policy and practice.
Financial Aid Strategies: The Key To An Early Childhood Career Development System, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
Financial Aid Strategies: The Key To An Early Childhood Career Development System, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications
Linking practitioners to professional development resources and financial assistance for education and training is essential to achieving a well-trained, stable early childhood workforce.
Guiding Staff Training? Vygotsky And Gardner Can Help, Genan Anderson
Guiding Staff Training? Vygotsky And Gardner Can Help, Genan Anderson
Genan Anderson
Provides practical ideas to use the basic theories of child development in scaffolding the training of preschool teachers to develop and implement appropriate curriculum.