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Connecticut Early Childhood Education Council. – 1990
This document consists of seven policy issue papers developed by the Connecticut Early Childhood Education Council, an action-oriented coalition of statewide organizations concerned with early childhood education. Members include teachers, school administrators, children's librarians, child care providers, Head Start directors, State Department of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Definitions, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Young Children, 1991
Presents guidelines that teachers and supervisors can use to make decisions about curriculum content and assessment in programs serving young children three through eight years of age. These decisions concern appropriate curriculum content and assessment; evaluation of curriculum and assessment practices; and the advocacy of appropriate…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Guides
Maine State Dept. of Educational and Cultural Services, Augusta. – 1988
Providing a comprehensive overview, this guide to kindergarten screening was produced to aid Maine's school districts as they work to increase the effectiveness of their screening programs. Part 1, providing materials related to meeting the requirements of Maine's Education Reform Act of 1984, includes regulations pertaining to screening, a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Philosophy, Family School Relationship
Egertson, Harriet A. – 1987
The curriculum now being taught in many kindergartens is profoundly different from what it was two decades ago. The kindergarten classroom, once conceived of as a play- and group adjustment-oriented setting, may now also be a classroom with an "academic" approach, characterized by direct teaching of discrete skills with specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Grade Repetition