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FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Credit: Cavan Images The research on early childhood education can seem as messy as a playground sandbox. Studies of the Perry preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan and the Abecedarian preschool in Chapel Hill, North Carolina documented higher levels of educational attainment and higher earnings for children who attended.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2022
When the researchers compared information about the inmates’ childhoods with a population outside the prison, they found that the comparison group could provide abundant examples of free play in childhood, while the group inside prison largely could not. Doris Bergen, a professor at Miami University’s Department of Educational Psychology.
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JUNE 12, 2016
President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., But hindsight is a very different vantage point for Cassellius, who is now Minnesota’s commissioner of education. “It Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.
MindShift
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
students are justifiably exhausted and nervous from too much homework — even though some international comparisons suggest they’re sitting comfortably at the average. Education systems and perceptions of what is and isn’t homework can vary remarkably overseas. Well, here goes. How much homework do U.S. students get?
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Her parents, like many Mexican immigrant families, didn’t believe in taking out loans, even for education. They both believe that having Hispanic teachers might have made a difference in their education. Anna Egalite, education professor at North Carolina State University. Graphic: Davin McHenry. population as a whole by 2060.
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. One of the excuses educators have long offered to explain America’s poor reading performance is poverty. The problem in Bethlehem.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 8, 2016
“Five and six year old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators,” Johnson told his audience as he explained that the federal government would be, for the first time, funding education and health services for children living in poverty in the form of a public preschool program. But the U.S. Photo: Paul J.
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