As the mother of two young children, ages 1 and 4, I spend much of my day involved in their care and the regulation of the relationship between them. My girls, from the start, shared a natural bond, and as...
This morning I wanted to share an article that I found in the Detroit Free Press. It regards current legislation in Michigan to roll back kindergarten starting ages to ensure that children are 5 years old when they start school....
Good morning! As we hit midweek I have found two really interesting articles that discuss some important educational ideas familiar to us all here at CW. The first is a really exciting study which has found that the way in...
For 1 in every 10 students, learning to read will be a far more difficult exercise than it should be. For a variety of reasons, literacy and learning to read, a skill unique to the human being, can take longer...
[caption id="attachment_1205" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Image courtesy of Ambro"][/caption] We are all aware of how much certain media tools, such as iPads and smart phones, have come to dominate out adult lives over the past decade. Even while typing this very...
As we head into the weekend, I wanted to share a few interesting articles that focus on numbers. The first, from the New America Foundation’s Jennifer Cohen talks about how 2010 Census data has shown a disturbingly large increase in...
[caption id="attachment_983" align="alignleft" width="190" caption="Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono"][/caption] If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and a little kid, the chorus of “can I play?” is probably a familiar one to you already. As the New Media...
[caption id="attachment_971" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Image courtesy of phaewilk"][/caption] The online journal Developmental Psychology will publish a study this week which has been 30 years in the making. Developmental researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted an...
I remember the anticipation that I felt as a second grade student at Monte Vista Elementary School in Phoenix, AZ. Next year would be the year. Finally, like all of the Big Kids on the playground, I, too, would be...
This morning, I read three great articles that I wanted to share with you. The first is fantastic news from researchers about the benefits of Head Start in early education, and, more importantly, parent/child relationships. With many districts and individuals...
