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Manship, Karen; Quick, Heather; Ogut, Burhan; Holod, Aleksandra; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Anthony, Jennifer – American Institutes for Research, 2017
California's Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010 established transitional kindergarten (TK), the first year of a two-year kindergarten program for students affected by the change in the birthdate cutoff for entry into kindergarten from December 2 to September 1. This brief, the sixth in a series highlighting findings from the "Study of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
Levin, Diane E.; Van Hoorn, Judith L. – Defending the Early Years, 2016
Soon after the implementation of federal and state early education mandates that require the teaching and testing of more formal "academic" skills, many highly experienced early childhood teachers began voicing concerns about the negative impact the mandates were having on the young children in their classrooms. Many of these concerns…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Program Effectiveness, Low Income Students, Early Childhood Education
Illinois Univ., Champaign. Coll. of Education. – 1997
This book compiles abstracts of presentations from a symposium held in honor of Dr. Bernard Spodek, a leading scholar in early childhood education, on the occasion of his retirement. Topics addressed are as follows: (1) culture in early childhood curriculum; (2) developmental and cultural appropriateness; (3) kindergarten in Japan; (4) pressure…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education