Sentences with phrase «early academic demands»

When boys get slammed with early academic demands they can't handle, they tune out.

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In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

This year's report also focuses on early - childhood education as its special theme, examining how new academic demands and accountability pressures are altering the learning environment for young children and the educators serving them.

Early childhood educators are justifiably concerned that demands for academic standards in preschool will result in developmentally inappropriate instruction that focuses on a narrow set of isolated skills.

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I am dedicated to protecting early childhood from the demands of rigorous academic pressures and standardized tests, and promoting the value of play and its role in the learning process.

There is a high demand for academic - focused preschool programs due to consistent and strong early childhood research in recent years.