Sentences with phrase «quality early education makes»

High - quality early education makes much more sense, but it is «rocket science.»

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On an individual level, if you are well - educated, middle - class parents (the children who make the biggest gains from early childhood education are those from deprived backgrounds) and use quality daycare (if you use it), you are probably not going to influence your child's outcomes all that much whatever you do.

Today's announcement builds on these continuing efforts to make high - quality early education and child care available for all.

Earlier today, Silver made a very friendly appearance before members of the Alliance for Quality Education — a group partially funded by the teachers union that often comes under fire from the Cuomo administration.

We look forward to working with Senator Klein to ensure that New York State makes the investments necessary to ensure high - quality early childhood education for New York's children,» said Gregory Brender, the Co-Director of Policy and Advocacy for United Neighborhood Houses.

They can «make do» with patchwork arrangements or even illegal care but these arrangements aren't reliable nor do they provide consistent, quality early childhood education that promotes healthy cognitive, social, emotional and physical development.

When Usable Knowledge launched in September — with a handful of stories focused on the Common Core, how teachers can make caring more common, and the best strategies to expand high - quality early education, among others — we had no idea what the response might be.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Our reforms are raising the quality of early years education and childcare, and by doubling the childcare entitlement for working parents we are helping to ensure more children are ready to make the transition to schooEducation spokesperson said: «Our reforms are raising the quality of early years education and childcare, and by doubling the childcare entitlement for working parents we are helping to ensure more children are ready to make the transition to schooeducation and childcare, and by doubling the childcare entitlement for working parents we are helping to ensure more children are ready to make the transition to school.»

Aware that engaging, high - quality early childhood education has ongoing positive benefits for students, Sarah wanted to make sure her classroom strategies were as effective as they could be.

In education we tend to talk about pieces of a school or district (teacher quality, technology, early - childhood education, etc.) and pay too little attention to what makes schools coherent and productive organizations and how government can promote or detract from those attributes.

This new book, which includes former Ed School Professor Hiro Yoshikawa, diagnoses the obstacles to quality early education and offers a blueprint for making sure every child's early learning is fully supported.

High - quality, early - childhood education made available to all 4 - year - olds and all low - income 3 - year - olds.

Failing that, we would just try to make them safe in decent, affordable child care facilities and provide high quality early childhood education.

Given the early education system in place, what can be done to make sure those children who most need high - quality experiences will have them?

This book is compiled by Education Week and offers information and opinion on Obama's key educational priorities, which includes expanding early education, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and afforEducation Week and offers information and opinion on Obama's key educational priorities, which includes expanding early education, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and afforeducation, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and affordability.

Among its recommendations: expand early education, improve teacher quality, support school innovation, make math and science national priorities, address the dropout crisis, and improve college access and affordability.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

«Research shows,» he wrote, quoting President Obama in his State of the Union address, «that one of the best investments we can make in a child's life is high - quality early education.»

Both perspectives make legitimate points: that a centralized universal system of pre-K would more likely guarantee high quality (e.g. David Kirp in The Sandbox Investment) and that a decentralized, patchwork of state funded pre-K programs would avoid the bureaucratization of early childhood education (e.g. Bruce Fuller in Standardized Childhood).

Collaborative for Children increases the quality of early education in Greater Houston, using research - based strategies and partnerships to really make a difference.

State Superintendent of Education Carey Wright has made high quality early education a priority during her term as CCSSO Board PEducation Carey Wright has made high quality early education a priority during her term as CCSSO Board Peducation a priority during her term as CCSSO Board President.

Early on the journey, driven by a passionate belief that all children deserve a quality education, Steve dedicated over eight years to teaching and learning where he made a difference in the lives of children, firsthand, while serving as a traditional classroom teacher, therapist and special education teacher from 1977 through 1985.

«When it comes to making education great, high quality early learning is a fundamental,» said Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, IDRA President & CEO.

Early on her journey, driven by a passionate belief that all children deserve a quality education, Sherry dedicated over 25 years to enriching the lives of students, where she made a difference, firsthand, while serving as a classroom teacher and school leader.

The report highlights the need for an Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that expands access to high - quality early learning opportunities and makes the law preschool through 12th grade, rather than K - 12.

Mississippi Superintendent of Education and CCSSO Board President Carey Wright has made high - quality early childhood education a priority for CCSSO during her presidency this year to ensure we create an equitable education system for eveEducation and CCSSO Board President Carey Wright has made high - quality early childhood education a priority for CCSSO during her presidency this year to ensure we create an equitable education system for eveeducation a priority for CCSSO during her presidency this year to ensure we create an equitable education system for eveeducation system for every child.

Her work focuses on building, implementing, and improving the state's unified early childhood quality rating and improvement system, and supporting families to make informed choices about care and education for their children.

Early childhood education research has rarely focused on supporting young children in tribal communities, hampering our capacity to understand and advocate for the kinds of high - quality practices grounded in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI / AN) culture that can make a positive difference in children's lives.

When asked what qualities make a great school, 92 percent of Black parents and family members and 88 percent of Latino parents and family members said a school that welcomes parent feedback and is responsive to their concerns, according to our first - annual «New Education Majority» poll [i] released earlier this year.

Early - parenting programs can make a lasting difference only if they are followed up with effective early education — meaning that African - American boys must continue to receive quality instruction and focused attention throughout childhood, and especially in their first years of scEarly - parenting programs can make a lasting difference only if they are followed up with effective early education — meaning that African - American boys must continue to receive quality instruction and focused attention throughout childhood, and especially in their first years of scearly education — meaning that African - American boys must continue to receive quality instruction and focused attention throughout childhood, and especially in their first years of school.

The Department of Education announced (PDF) that Libby Doggett will head up its Office of Early Learning, where she will help administer the Race to the Top — Early Learning Challenge and promote the administration's proposal to make high - quality, full - day preschool available to all 4 - year - olds from low - and moderate - income families.

Making Informed Decisions: An Administrator's Guide to Understanding Early Education Research unpacks what research tells us around selected issues in early childhood education such as what makes an effective early learning program, essential elements of high quality pre-K, retention, teacher qualifications, and administrator qualificatEarly Education Research unpacks what research tells us around selected issues in early childhood education such as what makes an effective early learning program, essential elements of high quality pre-K, retention, teacher qualifications, and administrator qualifEducation Research unpacks what research tells us around selected issues in early childhood education such as what makes an effective early learning program, essential elements of high quality pre-K, retention, teacher qualifications, and administrator qualificatearly childhood education such as what makes an effective early learning program, essential elements of high quality pre-K, retention, teacher qualifications, and administrator qualifeducation such as what makes an effective early learning program, essential elements of high quality pre-K, retention, teacher qualifications, and administrator qualificatearly learning program, essential elements of high quality pre-K, retention, teacher qualifications, and administrator qualifications.

The more important questions today are first, how do we ensure that all young children have access to high quality early childhood education, and second how do we make preschool programs better?

For the early childhood community, this is a good budget that will make progress toward closing achievement gaps and ensuring that a quality education begins in the earliest years.

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Colorado and Delaware are among the 20 states that received more than $ 1 billion in federal Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge grants to bolster the quality of early learning education and to make it more widely availEarly Learning Challenge grants to bolster the quality of early learning education and to make it more widely availearly learning education and to make it more widely available.

We know that high - quality early - childhood education, additional pathways like career - and - technical education, community schools that provide wraparound services, and changing instruction to include project - based learning are ways to engage students, address poverty, and make every public school a place where parents want to send children, educators want to work and kids are engaged.

Maurice Sykes has made advocating for and advancing high - quality early childhood education his life's work.

Research has shown that if we do not provide a quality education in the early elementary years any gains made in pre-K are quickly lost, so I believe before we consider expanding our early childhood education we should first focus our efforts on addressing the shortcomings in our K - 12 system.

He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.»

The letter crystallizes an overwhelming body of research in human development, psychology, education, and economics, which details how high - quality early childhood education programs for children from birth to age five are one of the best economic bets we can make.

We made access to quality early childhood education — for all — our core mission.

Concrete actions by policy makers, already practised in many counties, are: matching paid parental leave to the rate and duration observed in Scandinavian countries; providing adequate public funding and developing tax policies that allow parents to make appropriate child - rearing choices, paying greater attention to children from poor or diverse backgrounds; integrating child care and early education under one ministry or agency and thereby enhancing quality, qualification requirements, accessibility and affordability.

Each preschool program, regardless of the type of organization it is part of, or who makes the decisions, can implement their own quality early childhood education programs based on their specific philosophies, methods and approaches to learning.

The choice to implement and maintain a high quality early childhood education program is ultimately made by the owner or operator of a child care program.

Shared decision - making is a really important feature of quality early childhood education and care contexts.

It is a free resource to help families make informed decisions and to help early care and education providers improve the quality of their programs.

This means many parents likely had to make the tough decision on whether to spend their resources on food, housing, and other family needs or higher - quality early care and education.

This article discusses four reasons for advocacy activities related to early childhood education and child care: preserving existing programs; increasing capacity and quality of service; making early education more accessible, affordable, and equitable; and educating the public.

And so I wanted to be a part of making access to quality early education better for more children.