Children’s first learning experiences, at home and in early care, are a critical component to their success in kindergarten and beyond.
Early learning initiative
by Erich Bolz Children do not have to start school behind! Public school teachers do a fantastic job of ensuring children make a year’s growth in a year’s time. However, kids entering Kindergarten are performing somewhere between three and eight years old on academic tasks. Kids who start school behind…
Not mom’s homework
Homework is an amazing phenomenon. Teachers may assign extra practice on a concept, but it may be that your child just didn’t get his work quite finished. It may have been a difficult assignment for him, he may have been talking with his buddies during study time, or maybe just…