Latest Preschool education Stories
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Upon reviewing hundreds of thousands of the cutest smiles, most adorable poses and irresistibly squeezable cheeks, Gerber has announced the winner of its Gerber Generation Photo Search! Two-year-old Mercy Townsend of Toledo, Ohio is the grand prize winner of a $25,000 scholarship and will star in a Gerber print advertisement beginning in May 2011. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110131/SF38691) "I didn't believe it at first,"...
ATLANTA, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Primrose Schools proudly announces a new, exclusive partnership with The Music Class, an award-winning, international music education company founded by musician and music educator Rob Sayer. The program will enhance Primrose's Balanced Learning® music curriculum by adding a rich library of music, companion classroom activities and an innovative "immersion" strategy with take-home CDs. "We are constantly improving our educational child care...
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy Corporation today received the annual Advocacy Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Edison Electric Institute for its continuing efforts to expand access to quality pre-kindergarten education programs in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. In announcing the honor Thursday, EEI President Thomas Kuhn praised Entergy for the company's commitment to the communities it serves. "Entergy's ongoing advocacy campaign to support...
Early years initiatives for pre-school children are not delivering improvements in language and numeracy development, according to leading education experts.Experts, conducting one of the largest surveys to date of the development of 117,000 children starting primary school in England over eight years, found that despite a raft of early years' initiatives, such as 'Sure Start', basic levels of development in early reading, vocabulary and maths have remained largely unchanged.Researchers from...
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just in time for holiday gift-giving, Pacific Oaks College and The Children's School, internationally renowned for over 50 years of innovative early childhood education programs focused on play, non-violence, anti-bias and individual autonomy, have published a recommended book list for young children (and their parents and caregivers). The books on the list provide global perspective and engage very young children to age eight --...
Children who attend large group child care facilities before age 2½ appear to develop more respiratory and ear infections at that age, but fewer such illnesses during elementary school years, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals."Preschool children in group child care experience more frequent infections than do children cared for primarily at home, and the risk seems greater when children...
New System Based on The Creative Curriculum® Provides Comprehensive Resources to Help Early Childhood Educators Build High-Quality Programs in Texas BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After conducting a rigorous review, the Texas State Board of Education voted unanimously on November 19 to include the Teaching Strategies® System for Pre-K, Texas Edition in its list of prekindergarten curricula approved for adoption. This research-based, entirely bilingual system...
GrowUpLearning Helps Kids' Development RESTON Va., Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The Balancing Act," a program for women on Lifetime Cable Television, will feature a story about how parents can help their young children grow -- physically, mentally, and socially -- through play. The program will air on Lifetime on Tuesday, November 30 from 7:00-8:00 a.m., and the segment focuses on GrowUpLearning (www.GrowUpLearning.com), a nonprofit web-based service for parents. (Logo:...
South Florida Law Firm Fights for Justice in the Cases of Three Children Molested by a Foster Grandparent volunteer in a Head Start Preschool Program West Palm Beach, FL (PRWEB) November 19, 2010 This week in an Indian River County courtroom, Steinger, Iscoe & Greene attorney Neil Anthony fought and won the hearing to continue the investigation and discovery of the confirmed and police documented molestation of three innocent children at the Village Green Head Start Center and...
In many preschool classrooms, gender is very noticeable"”think of the greeting, "Good morning, boys and girls" or the instruction, "Girls line up on this side, boys on that." A new study has found that when teachers call attention to gender in these simple ways, children are more likely to express stereotyped views of what activities are appropriate for boys and girls, and which gender they prefer to play with.The study, by researchers at The Pennsylvania State...
