Sentences with phrase «as kindergarten entry»

Nevertheless, racial academic achievement gaps in fourth grade fell at roughly the same rate as kindergarten entry gaps, Reardon said, adding, «This suggests that the primary source of the reduction in racial achievement gaps in fourth grade is the reduction in kindergarten readiness gaps, not a reduction in the rate at which gaps change between kindergarten and fourth grade.»

Nonetheless, «racial academic achievement gaps in fourth grade declined at roughly the same rate as kindergarten entry gaps,» said Reardon.

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This year, the most popular article by far sought to provide evidence - based advice to parents who may be wondering if they should delay their child's entry into kindergarten for a year, a practice known as academic redshirting.

On the other end of the student age spectrum, many parents of preschoolers have bought into this concept, choosing to delay their child's entry into kindergarten for a year — a practice known as academic redshirting.

The first describes the «readiness gaps» at kindergarten entry as of 2010.

And how does this time vary by student characteristics such as English proficiency at entry to kindergarten, gender and home language?

Emergent reading skills are crucial to the development of fluency and comprehension, and as such, assessing kindergarten entry skills is critical to inform educational decisions.

Nevada is in the second year of piloting Teaching Strategies Gold ™ as a statewide Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA).

In their widely cited 2007 study of large longitudinal data sets, University of California Irvine, education professor Greg Duncan and his colleagues found that in a comparison of math, literacy, and social - emotional skills at kindergarten entry, «early math concepts, such as knowledge of numbers and ordinality, were the most powerful predictors of later learning.»

Math skills at kindergarten entry (the ability to recognize numbers, problem solve, use reasoning skills, and apply knowledge) are increasingly seen as an even better predictor of later academic success than early reading ability.

Information and Resources on Developing State Policy on Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA): UPDATE - This Fast Fact is an update of the February 2014 Fast Fact which provides information on how other states are approaching the development and implementation of KEA as part of a comprehensive assessment system.

A variety of state - funded pre-K programs generally produce broad gains in participating children's learning, as measured at kindergarten entry, according to NIEER's study published this week in AERA Open.

Program lasts for at least two years, beginning as early as pregnancy and ending at the child's 3rd birthday or at kindergarten entry.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

A recent investigation from the UK Millennium Cohort Study found that a variety of parenting, home learning, and early education factors explained a small portion of the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in children's cognitive ability by age 5.2 Although some US studies have examined selected factors at different stages of childhood, 24 — 27 few have had comprehensive data to examine the socioeconomic distribution of a wide variety of risk and protective factors across early childhood and their role as potential independent mediators of the SES gradients in cognitive ability at kindergarten entry.

Parents as Teachers affiliates are designed to provide at least two years of services to families with children between prenatal and kindergarten entry, and ideally three years or more.

Parents as Teachers serves a range of families with high needs — not just first time parents, pregnant parents or teen parents — and offers services throughout the continuum from prenatal to kindergarten entry.

The state is taking steps to ensure the ELG are aligned with other standards and frameworks, such as the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework, Common Core State Standards for K «12, state education standards, and kindergarten entry assessments.

KAT is a modification of the Parents as Teachers program designed to meet the special needs of relative caregivers raising children from birth to kindergarten entry.

(B) a parent or primary caregiver of a child, including grandparents or other relatives of the child, and foster parents, who are serving as the child's primary caregiver from birth to kindergarten entry, and including a noncustodial parent who has an ongoing relationship with, and at times provides physical care for, the child.

Parents as Teachers serves a range of families with varying needs and offers services throughout the continuum from prenatal to kindergarten entry.

Kindergarten entry assessments, sometimes known as kindergarten readiness assessments, are being developed by states to assess what children know and are able to do as they enter kKindergarten entry assessments, sometimes known as kindergarten readiness assessments, are being developed by states to assess what children know and are able to do as they enter kkindergarten readiness assessments, are being developed by states to assess what children know and are able to do as they enter kindergartenkindergarten.