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Download full textMeisels, Samuel J. – 1998
In response to the first of the National Education Goals (1991), which reads, "all children in America will start school ready to learn," this paper addresses four interpretations of the term "readiness" and the methods that have been devised to assess children's learning at the outset of formal schooling. The idealist or nativist view claims that…
Descriptors: Definitions, Learning Readiness, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
