National data does not exist on exactly what is happening in classrooms around the country, but anecdotal evidence and a few time - diary
studies of kindergarten classrooms indicate that the KIPP DREAM classroom may be the exception, not the rule.
The tidbits of advice grace the
walls of kindergarten classrooms everywhere, including gems like «When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together,» and «Remember the Dick - and - Jane books and the first words you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK.»
Currently, teachers who have taught higher elementary grades, such as 4th grade, can be put in
charge of kindergarten classrooms, despite being unfamiliar with the needs and capacities of children in kindergarten.
Much of her research investigates the longer - run impacts of early life experiences, such as the impacts of receiving SNAP benefits during childhood, the
impacts of kindergarten classroom quality, and the impacts of early childhood education.
Jo Barbie: We're fearful that they will not have time to do what they need to be doing in the classroom because they're trying to meet the needs of this assessment — to the point where we actually hired a full - time person to work in
all of our kindergarten classrooms this year to pilot this [TS Gold] assessment.