Focus on Early Childhood
Education
Read what teachers, administrators, scholars,
advocates, and policymakers are saying about the Harvard Education
Letter’s ongoing article series on preK-3 education.
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Articles and Commentators
Small
Kids, Big Words (May/June 2008)
David
K. Dickinson on changing our conceptions of the intellectual
capacities of young children
Michael
L. Kamil on using different vocabulary strategies
at different reading levels
Catherine
E. Snow on the point of vocabulary learning
Neither
Art nor Accident (January/February 2008)
Karin
Chenoweth on the importance of curriculum in high-quality
classrooms
William
T. Gormley, Jr., and Deborah A. Phillips on looking
inside the black box of early childhood education
Sharon
Lynn Kagan on the era of “teaching accountability”
Laura
Kohn on the continuum of quality preK-elementary
teaching
Susan
H. Landry on the definition of “quality”
teaching
Doing
the Critical Things First (March/April 2007)
Herbert
P. Ginsburg on misconceptions about mastering early
math
Gene
I. Maeroff on the small miracles of learning math
Cathy
Seeley on achievement differences and the math curriculum
Response
to Intervention (January/February 2007)
Lou
Danielson on the promise and challenges of Response
to Intervention
Libby
Doggett and Jennifer Rosenbaum on Recognition &
Response and quality teaching practice
Samuel
J. Meisels on whether Response to Intervention can
live up to expectations
Wayne
Sailor on the broader potential of Response to Intervention
The
School Readiness Gap (July/August 2006)
W.
Steven Barnett on a targeted and universal
early childhood policy
Jim
Hinson on addressing the whole child--and the family
Deborah
Meier on redefining "preparedness"
Richard
Rothstein on the many causes of the achievement
gap
Degrees
of Improvement (January/February 2006)
Margaret
Blood on preK teacher initiatives from Early Education
for All
Carolyn
T. Cobb on North Carolina’s “More at
Four” initiative
Sybil
Jordan Hampton on Arkansas’ preK initiatives
Clara
Jennings on opening the teacher preparation pipeline
in early childhood education
Andrew
White on the pay gap for preK teachers
Special
Issue on Early Childhood Education (July/August 2005)
Sally
Dias on vocabulary development and mathematics
Deborah
Meier on "transforming the world of childhood
in school"
Wendy
D. Puriefoy on family, school, and community
partnership in early childhood education
S.
Paul Reville on the policy challenges facing advocates
for early childhood education
Judith
Schickedanz on improving preschool instruction
Barbara
Van Sickle on the narrowing of the reading curriculum
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