Targeted or universal pre-K? Direct instruction or learning through play? These and other
debates are heating up as more young children across the country gain access to pre-K …

Abstract The Capulets and Montagues of early childhood have long harried over their vision
for a perfect preschool education. Should young children be immersed in a core curriculum …

The well-aired arguments about whether, how and why a child should be 'made ready'for
school in England are symptomatic of the far deeper tension growing within the early years …

This study investigated the relation between teachers'(N= 22) use of sophisticated and
complex language in urban middle‐school classrooms and their students'(mean age at …

The domains of child development and early learning are discussed in different terms and
categorized in different ways in the various fields and disciplines that are involved in …

The Workshop on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the
Achievement Gap was held to explore three questions: What is known about the conditions …

Reading literacy is the key to all learning and success in life, especially in this information
age. The effects of reading failure include poor performance at school and tertiary level …