Focus on Early Childhood
Education
Editor's Note
Welcome to the Harvard Education Letter's special web page
on the education of children from preschool through grade three,
made possible by a grant from the Foundation for Child Development
(FCD).
A growing body of research demonstrates the critical
role high-quality early childhood education plays in students' success,
not only in the elementary grades but throughout their lives. The
decisions we make now about the ways in which today's preschool
and early elementary students are taught will affect our entire
society for many years to come. Our hope is that the articles, comments,
and resources in these pages will spark thought, discussion, and—ultimately—improvement
in the education of America's youngest students.
Articles on Early Childhood
Education
The entire Harvard Education Letter article series
on early childhood education is available in full text on these
pages. Additional articles in this ongoing three-year series will
be posted as they are published. All articles are listed in reverse
chronological order at the bottom of this page.
Voices from the Field
Educators, researchers, and policymakers
are all becoming increasingly aware of the role that high-quality
early childhood education plays in the success of students not only
in the elementary grades, but throughout their lives. Click
here to read comments from some of the leading voices in the
field of early childhood education about the articles in this series
and related topics.
From our May/June 2008 issue:
Small Kids,
Big Words
Research-based strategies for building vocabulary from preK to grade
3
by Laura Pappano
Vocabulary
Development from PreK-3
Tiered Words
Comments from David
K. Dickinson, Michael
L. Kamil, and Catherine
E. Snow
The
Power of Family Conversation
School and community programs help parents build children's literacy
from birth
by Laura Pappano
The Home
Language Advantage
From our January/February 2008 issue:
Neither Art
nor Accident
New research helps define and develop quality preK and elementary
teaching
A Conversation with Robert Pianta
Preschool
Rating Systems
10
Dimensions of Good Teaching
Comments from Karin
Chenoweth, William
T. Gormley and Deborah Phillips, Sharon
Lynn Kagan, Laura
Kohn, and Susan
H. Landry
From our March/April 2007 issue:
Doing the
Critical Things First
An aligned approach to PreK and early elementary math
An Interview with Sharon Griffin
Stages in
the Development of Number Sense
Developmental
Principles for Early Math Instruction
Comments from Herbert
P.Ginsburg, Gene I. Maeroff,
and Cathy Seeley
From our January/February 2007 issue:
Response
to Intervention
A new approach to reading instruction aims to catch struggling readers
early
by Nancy Walser
Recognition
& Response
RtI Resources
Online
Comments from Lou
Danielson, Libby Doggett
and Jennifer Rosenbaum, Samuel
J. Meisels, and Wayne Sailor
From our July/August 2006 issue:
The
School Readiness Gap
Prekindergarten--not just preschool--may be the key to narrowing disparities
in achievement by race, ethnicity, and income
by Michael Sadowski
Are
Schools Ready for Children?
School
District Meets the Gap Head On
Comments from W.
Steven Barnett, Jim Hinson,
Deborah Meier, and Richard
Rothstein
Special Web Features
Kindergarten:
A Patchwork of Policies Reinforces Inequity
From our January/February
2006 issue:
Degrees
of Improvement
States push to reverse the decline in preschool teachers' qualifications.
by Michael Sadowski
What
Does Effective PreK Teaching Look Like?
Comments from Margaret
Blood, Carolyn T. Cobb,
Sybil Jordan Hampton,
Clara Jennings, and Andrew
White.
Research
Points to the Long-Term Benefits of Preschool
by Sue Miller Wiltz From
our July/August 2005 issue:
Early
Childhood Education at a Crossroads
Access to preschool has come a long way, but critical choices lie
ahead
by Deborah Stipek
Preschool
Enrollment–Equal Access for All?
Bridging
the PreK-Elementary Divide
Concerns about early achievement gaps prompt programs that link
prekindergarten with elementary school
by Sue Miller Wiltz
Three
Promising Initiatives
From
Literacy to Learning
An interview with Catherine Snow
Family
Income and School Readiness
Comments from Sally
Dias, Deborah Meier, Wendy
D. Puriefoy, S. Paul Reville,
Judith Schickedanz,
and Barbara Van Sickle.
From our March/April 2005 issue:
Testing
Goes to Preschool
Will state and federal testing programs advance the goal of school
readiness for all children?
by Robert Rothman
A
Decades-Old Battle
Maryland's
Work Sampling System
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