Sentences with phrase «more children in the kindergarten»

If you have two or more children in the Kindergarten or grades, we offer a generous sibling discount: 20 % for second child and 35 % for the third child or additional children.

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More than a dozen kindergartens in Vietnam have closed to deal with an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that has killed 109 children and sickening more than 52,000 this yMore than a dozen kindergartens in Vietnam have closed to deal with an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that has killed 109 children and sickening more than 52,000 this ymore than 52,000 this year.

Educare, which serves more than 3,000 children at its 21 centers, is intended primarily as a demonstration that even highly disadvantaged children can enter kindergarten ready to learn — but that in order to achieve that goal, they will need early interventions that are intensive (not to mention expensive).

The economic case that Educare advocates make is that the savings that result from having those children caught up in kindergarten rather than lagging behind — savings down the road in special education, juvenile justice, and social services — more than offset the cost of Educare.

Studies that follow children over a long period of time show that children who were insecure in kindergarten because of their parents» conflicts were more likely to have adjustment problems in the seventh grade.

Children who are more aware of themselves often perform better in kindergarten and in later schooling.

In general, children who attend preschool are more prepared to enter the Kindergarten classroom because they have experience interacting in a contained setting with children of their own agIn general, children who attend preschool are more prepared to enter the Kindergarten classroom because they have experience interacting in a contained setting with children of their own agin a contained setting with children of their own age.

Kindergarten isn't what it used to be... many of the changes you observe make kindergarten a more challenging and potentially pressuring stage, it's all in the name of teaching your child more effectiKindergarten isn't what it used to be... many of the changes you observe make kindergarten a more challenging and potentially pressuring stage, it's all in the name of teaching your child more effectikindergarten a more challenging and potentially pressuring stage, it's all in the name of teaching your child more effectively.»

Children who are living with food insecurity during the first five years of their lives are more likely to lag behind in social, emotional, and cognitive development once they start kindergarten.

If your child is entering kindergarten or first grade, it might be a good idea to have a play date with one of the children who will be in their class a week before school starts to help them feel more comfortable and get more excited about seeing their friends again in school.

For kids who attended daycare or preschool, kindergarten is still a major turning point, because your child will be given more responsibilities and independence in school.

In fact, the more that parents do to help children overcome challenges, the better prepared the child will be for kindergarten.

In fact, school - related anxiety affects 2 to 5 percent of school - age children, but it's much more common in times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of AmericIn fact, school - related anxiety affects 2 to 5 percent of school - age children, but it's much more common in times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of Americin times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew on Dec. 9 called for closing tax loopholes that benefit non-resident owners of luxury properties to raise revenue to bring class sizes in kindergarten through Grade 3 down to no more than 15 children.

Parents and community leaders say they fear schools will once again be saddled with kindergarten waitlists, which have led, in the past, to cutting school programs to make room for more children.

But Marcy Drogin, who has a child in kindergarten at the school, said she's frustrated the DOE didn't do more.

«We knew from our previous work that preschool and kindergarten children with uncorrected farsightedness have decreased early literacy, and this new study shows that there are even more deficits in these children early on,» she said.

Current state frameworks for teaching mathematics to children in elementary and middle school (kindergarten through grade 8) can include more than 100 objectives for a particular grade, says Francis «Skip» Fennell, NCTM president.

To look for changes in children's perceptions over time, the researchers conducted a meta - analysis, combining data from 78 studies that included a total of more than 20,000 U.S. children in kindergarten through 12th grade.

This is in part to do with the fact that stimulants and young children have not been well studied, and are more sensitive to side effects, especially given that during the kindergarten years, boys are at least a year behind girls in basic self - regulation, where we see incidences of diagnosis rise.

An interview published this week with NPR asks education professor Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University about her motivation to gather the research on academic redshirting in her recent article for Education Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being among the oldest in one's peer group is always an advantage.

In the study involving questionnaires filled out by more than 1,100 English and Spanish speaking parents of children in kindergarten through grade 12, researchers found children in the first grade had up to three times the homework load recommended by the NEA and the National PTIn the study involving questionnaires filled out by more than 1,100 English and Spanish speaking parents of children in kindergarten through grade 12, researchers found children in the first grade had up to three times the homework load recommended by the NEA and the National PTin kindergarten through grade 12, researchers found children in the first grade had up to three times the homework load recommended by the NEA and the National PTin the first grade had up to three times the homework load recommended by the NEA and the National PTA.

Class size is more important than the length of the school day in the achievement of disadvantaged kindergarten children, concludes a study by the Chicago Board of Education.

Past early literacy research emphasized the importance of daily adult / child reading time, as well as having 100 or more books in one's home, and its link to a child being academically ready and successful in kindergarten.

More young children than ever before are entering kindergarten with prior experience in group situations (nursery school, day care center, or day care homes, etc.).

No evidence was found in the surveys that children who may have been at heightened risk of having difficulties in school benefited from, or were hurt by, delayed kindergarten entry more than other children.

First - and second - graders who were retained in kindergarten had more school performance problems than children who didn't repeat.

«Redshirting,» or the act of delaying a student's kindergarten entrance by one year, many parents believe, will give their child time to develop cognitive and social skills that will make him more successful in school.

In other words, children who began to learn about print, sounds, and writing in preschool were more likely to be ready to read at the end of kindergarten and more likely to be reading successfully in elementary schooIn other words, children who began to learn about print, sounds, and writing in preschool were more likely to be ready to read at the end of kindergarten and more likely to be reading successfully in elementary schooin preschool were more likely to be ready to read at the end of kindergarten and more likely to be reading successfully in elementary schooin elementary school.

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

The academics say it was particularly «worrisome» that 28 per cent of children were unable to write more than five letters in one minute by the end of Kindergarten.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

Extending services throughout the birth - to - five period is a more efficient use of Head Start funds and will help more children start kindergarten prepared to succeed in school.

Research shows that the more skills children bring with them to kindergarten — in basic math, reading, even friendship and cooperation — the more likely they will succeed in those same areas in school.

[203204] Supporting families through this transition can lead to more family engagement in kindergarten, [205] and greater family engagement leads to better social and academic outcomes for children.

Now, with the advent of the Common Core, a set of rigorous reading and math standards for students in kindergarten through 12th grade that has been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, educators say the pressure to prepare young children is growing more intense.

[371] Analysis of the large national Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) data also found children in full - day kindergarten improved more in math and reading than children in half - day kindergarten.

Numerous studies on kindergarten find children learn more in full - day kindergarten than half - day kindergarten.

Researchers Sean F. Reardon of Stanford University and Ximena A. Portilla of the research firm MDRC compared data for nationally representative samples of more than 40,000 children who started kindergarten in 1998, 2006, and 2010.

Researchers found that children who do not participate in publicly funded early education programs are less likely to be kindergarten ready and miss more school.

Did you know that children who participate in high quality early learning are more likely to enter kindergarten prepared to succeed?

Native Spanish speakers who participated in Tulsa's preschool program or Head Start, for instance, progressed more in their language development by the end of kindergarten than non-English learners.Michael Puma et al., Head Start Impact Study: Final Report (Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010); W. T. Gormley, «The Effects of Oklahoma's Pre-K Program on Hispanic Children,» Social Science Quarterly 89 (2008): 916 — 936.

What they are: The Common Core State Standards are a set of academic standards in language arts and math that have been adopted in more than 40 states and intended to be the guideposts for children from kindergarten through 12th grade to ensure that they are ready for college and employment.

Conversely, children enrolled in early childhood programs are more likely to be kindergarten ready and less likely to be chronically absent.

Yet, pre-kindergarten programs are critical to children's long - term success, and experts at NIEER have documented that children who have been enrolled in high - quality pre-kindergarten programs enter kindergarten with better vocabularies and more advanced pre-reading and math skills than children who don't have access to these programs.

The study found that when more time is spent on reading in kindergarten — or on academic instruction in general — these children make greater gains than children who receive less time in such instruction.

Children entering kindergarten today are more equally prepared than they were in the late 1990s.

The basic comprehension strategies that children build out of oral language skills in kindergarten and first grade become more complex in second grade and beyond.

More than 100 comparative studies of early childhood education show that children who attended preschool prior to kindergarten had lasting improvements in cognitive, social skills and school progress.

A t the beginning of kindergarten, the math and reading achievement gaps between children in the bottom and top income quintiles amount to more than a full standard deviation.