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What's Reggio?
All They Do Is "Play"?
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"Crisis in the Kindergarten"
"New research shows that many kindergartens spend 2 to 3 hours per day instructing and testing children in literacy and math—with only 30 minutes per day or less for play. In some kindergartens there is no playtime at all. The same didactic, test-driven approach is entering preschools. But these methods, which are not well grounded in research, are not yielding long-term gains. Meanwhile, behavioral problems and preschool expulsion, especially for boys, are soaring. Read and comment on the Alliance’s new report, Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School."
(Alliance for Childhood: www.allianceforchildhood.org)
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Play Fact Sheet
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Formal "Lessons" Can Wait
This article states that "formal lessons" (the type of teaching we currently see in the USA) must wait for children to become at least 6 years old!
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Serious Need For Play
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Kindergarten Cram
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Kindergarten RX
Websites for Information on Early Childhood Education (Birth - Age 8)
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Alliance for Childhood
An organization dedicated to seeing changes in Early Childhood Education. The Alliance for Childhood states their goals on their website:
"While promoting a broad range of policies and practices essential to children’s well-being, the Alliance for Childhood works intensively on a few critical issues. Among these are the loss of creative play and hands-on activities in children’s lives, and the excessive amounts of time spent in front of screens instead of in face-to-face engagement with other children, caring adults, and the natural world. We also work against the commercialization of childhood, the misuse of high-stakes testing, and increasing levels of childhood obesity."
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The National Association for the Education of Young Children
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Finding Quality Preschools!
Child Advocacy
Where to get Help!
Getting Ready for Preschool
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