Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010

News round up

Some (most?) adults need a PreK refresher on how and why we wash our hands!

Taking seriously children who have anxiety and miss much school from refusing.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Much-overdue news roundup!

Amazing eye-tracking studies suggest that infants know a lot about the world, are very capable of acting on what they've seen.

Important study about how poverty and depression among mothers (which really affects children?)

How much safety, how much freedom to give kids?

The hilarity of The Onion speaks about children and the media :).


Sounds like college staff have to be like PreK teachers--dealing with the same 1 day blues!



Wednesday, August 4, 2010

AMAZING

Podcast/news radio report about France's preschools. Lovely story! I want to have my students sleep in little beds!
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones (be still, my blogging heart) is the best in liberal thought/coverage of the DC political scene. Naturally, he's plugging PreK here :)

I'm sure every single person on the face of the planet has read the Kindergarten article...however, read it again. It's lovely and true. Check it out here.

We know preschool changes the brain. Now the readers of the pop science Wired do too--yeah!

Multimedia presentations from the Early Ed Watch...check out this podcast and this video (bit hard to see).

Kids are always being accused of being spoiled by silly parents. These are old accusations, the article proves...and silly. I am guilty of sometimes using the "kids these days" argument--consider this an apology.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

June news round up - must reads!

* Did the Anti-Vaccine Movement Help Create Whooping Cough Epidemic? (Mother Jones). Note: there is not a proven link between these two, but rather than interesting point of discussion. Read more here.

* How can we turn around schools? What can money do? Can you replicate? (NYTimes) Check it out!

* Should kids have best friends? How to build teamwork, not cliques? Read here and then discuss.

* A really important article about how the system works to serve or not serve the most disabled students.

* Marketed to kids, but really for the sad parents. Toy Story 3 discourse!