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Wolery, Mark – NCEDL Spotlight, 1998
This newsletter discusses transition and outcome issues for young children with disabilities. Topics discussed include issues related to transition program administration, staff, families, and services. (KB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Periodicals
Ilfeld, Ellen M., Ed.; Hanssen, Elizabeth, Ed. – Coordinators' Notebook: An International Resource for Early Childhood Development, 1997
If children are to benefit from a healthy, supportive early childhood experience, it is important to strengthen transitions between early childhood experiences in educational and care settings and the more formal educational system. This issue of Coordinator's Notebook focuses on strengthening linkages and transitions between home, preschool, and…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Day Care, Developmental Continuity, Family School Relationship
Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – AECA Research in Practice Series, 1999
Starting school is a transition marked by excitement, trepidation, happiness, or sadness for all involved. This issue of the Australian Early Childhood Association Research in Practice Series discusses some of the issues described as important by children, parents, and preschool and elementary educators in an interview study of children's…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
Zinski, Joanne Pica – Florida Educational Research and Development Council Research Bulletin, 1983
A study was conducted to determine if participation in a pre-first grade transactional program would be more effective than grade repetition in enhancing first grade readiness. The transition program emphasized the acquisition of academic and behavioral skills necessary for a successful first grade experience. Students in the program were trained…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade Repetition, High Risk Students, Primary Education
Douglas, Dorothy, Ed. – Alaska's Children, 1999
This document consists of four issues of the quarterly report "Alaska's Children," which provides information on the Alaska Head Start State Collaboration Project and updates on Head Start activities in Alaska. Regular features in the issues include a calendar of conferences and meetings, a status report on Alaska's children, reports…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Alaska Natives, Brain, Compensatory Education
Pheasant, Marilyn – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
This bulletin describes a first-grade "readiness program" developed at the Aumsville (Oregon) School District to help children who have been found to be at risk in a standard first-grade program. These students attend a readiness first grade designed to assist their development emotionally, socially, physically, and academically and only…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Look at Even Start, 1995
Even Start is a family support program focusing on family literacy and school readiness. These first seven issues of the "Look at Even Start" newsletter cover topics such as transition between preschool and kindergarten, collaboration between programs and between parents and programs, ways Even Start programs respond to parents' needs…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Family Literacy, Family Programs
Fielden, Frank, Ed. – Of Primary Interest, 1998
This document is comprised of twelve consecutive issues (1995-1998) of a newsletter published quarterly to provide information on current research and practice to early childhood professionals teaching in the primary grades in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and Montana. The Winter 1995 issue focuses on necessary conditions for math/science…
Descriptors: Class Size, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Environment, Emergent Literacy
Little, Loyd, Ed. – Early Developments, 1999
This document consists of the three 1999 issues of a journal reporting new research in early child development conducted by the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Articles in the Winter 1999 issue focus on the transition to kindergarten and first grade, including adjustment issues;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education