Sentences with phrase «early academic preparation»

Not exact matches

There is discontinuity between earlier education and colleges and a mismatch between faculty expectations and the academic preparation of entering students.

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

Unlike the Child - Parent Centers and state - funded pre-schools, which place a heavy emphasis on language, Head Start — the $ 7 billion - a-year federal early - education program — has historically stressed child development rather than academic preparation.

Early academic and financial preparation is essential for college - bound students and their families.

Although some people who work with infants and toddlers have had academic preparation in early development, many others have told us that their courses did not probe deeply enough into infant — toddler development to guide them in how to respond with expanding experiences timed with new developments.

As early childhood education professionals, we know what high quality instruction looks like - and that academic preparation is only part of it.