Sentences with phrase «arrived at kindergarten»

Benefits were greater for some children than others, as seen in similar studies, but all children arrived at kindergarten more prepared.

The foundation's Education Program works to ensure that all students — especially children of color and those who grow up in poverty — arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed and have high - quality educators.

Early learning is a vital part of a student's educational experience that ensures students arrive at Kindergarten with foundational knowledge and skills, ready to learn and make friends.

It's no mystery why children from low - income families often arrive at the kindergarten door lagging substantially behind their wealthier peers in foundational vocabulary, literacy, math, and social skills.

Decades of research show that when children attend a high - quality early learning program, they arrive at kindergarten ready to learn and are more likely to succeed in school, graduate high school and college, and earn higher incomes as adults.

«These steps will help assure that every child arrives at kindergarten ready to learn and succeed.»

There is a reoccurring trend in some early childhood education studies: disadvantaged children who attend preschool arrive at kindergarten more intellectually and emotionally prepared than peers who have had no preschool.

«Children from disadvantaged families arrive at kindergarten with a significant achievement gap in the knowledge, vocabulary and social skills necessary to compete and succeed in school.

African Americans, Asian Pacific Islanders, Latinos, Native Americans, rural communities and families living in economic hardship are the focus of our work so children arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

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A knife - wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes Friday, police said, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at Chinese schools and kindergartens.

Which means that when children arrive in kindergarten without these foundational skills, there are often few resources in place to help kids develop them, and school administrators are often at a loss to know how to help.

For five out of eight birth cohorts we consider, the state assessed all kindergarteners at the beginning of the school year to determine whether the students arrived at school ready for kindergarten.

Using data from the U.S. Department of Education's ongoing study of 16,000 children who entered kindergarten in 1998, the report from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, focuses on what many disadvantaged children are lacking when they arrive at school.

One day last school year, a girl in Fanny Roman's kindergarten class at PS 244 in Flushing, Queens arrived bubbling with excitement about her new shoes.

They arrived at a teacher strategy of setting this student up to be a reader to kindergarten students whenever she had practiced a story enough to read it with fluency.

«Some 540 boys and girls, from kindergarten through grade six, will arrive at the brand - new Eastbury Elementary School in Glastonbury this September.

Although a child's first year of formal schooling may be in prekindergarten or kindergarten, students arrive at these grades with a variety of background experiences and skill levels.

There are images that haunt and tease: Isabelle at two, sitting alone on the edge of the sandbox in the same blue overalls every day, watching as the other children play; Isabelle at four, sitting small among her preschool classmates, glancing often at Ruth with her book in the corner to make sure she hasn't left her there alone; Isabelle in tears on her first day of kindergarten when finally Ruth arrived to pick her up, ten minutes late.

One the podcast listeners sent me an email describing that their 5 month old puppy just can't focus on them when they arrive at their puppy kindergarten class and pulls across the parking lot and then proceeds to get even more out of control once they get inside.

As governor, Hunt had made education one of his top priorities, but he had also heard from kindergarten teachers that children were arriving at school without foundational skills.