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  • Empathy, not Expulsion, for Preschoolers at Risk

    Sara Neufeld

    February 20, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Preschoolers in the U.S. who misbehave are increasingly being expelled. In Connecticut, trained counselors educated teachers about how to deal with emotionally traumatized kids which reduced expulsions.

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  • Not Your Mother's Library

    Deborah Fallows

    October 06, 2014 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    A public library in Columbus, Ohio stays ahead of the curve by investing in new technology as well as expanding outreach efforts to people of all backgrounds and socioeconomic class. The library offers rigorous, hands-on classes and free programs for families with young children in an effort to prepare kids for kindergarten reading and learning.

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  • Local proposals' goals to improve learning, young lives of children”

    Linda Shaw

    September 20, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Universal preschool is a policy that is often hard to pass on voter referendums. But, as evidenced by examples in Detroit and New York, such an investment means that more children would do well in kindergarten, fewer would need special education or other extra help and down the line, fewer would drop out of high school, end up unemployed — or in jail.

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  • Free pre-K: Strong early gains, but long-term questions

    Claudia Rowe

    September 20, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Preparing the young for elementary education is a priority to nurture reading and social skills. For 16 years, Tulsa Oklahoma has instituted a state funded preschool, staffed with teachers trained in early education. Tulsa’s Pre-K initiative has shown that their children are more prepared for literacy skills and math; however, maintaining the positive results is a long-term challenge.

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  • Can preschool help fight crime?

    Greg Barnes

    July 27, 2014 |

    Fayetteville Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Early education translates into higher graduation rates and lower probability for criminal behavior later in life, yet less than 30 percent of children in the United States go to preschool. Oklahoma leads the nation in universal early childhood education by ensuring all children, regardless of income, can attend preschool. All four year olds are entitled to services, and 74 percent participate.

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  • Teaching Children to Calm Themselves

    David Bornstein

    March 19, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    Children who experience neglect, severe stress or sudden separation at a young age can be traumatized - without appropriate adult support, trauma can interfere with healthy brain development, inhibiting children’s ability to make good decisions, use memory or use sequential thought processes to work through problems. Head Start Trauma Smart helps support traumatized and neglected children from acting out.

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  • Home visiting programs are preschool in its earliest form

    Michael Alison Chandler

    May 13, 2013 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Manassas, Virginia

    Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home visits with the families, these programs are working to close an achievement gap between rich and poor children that starts as early as just nine months into a child's life.

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  • Going Big

    Paul Tough

    September 26, 2008 |

    This American Life |

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    Response Location: United States, Harlem, New York

    Studies show the educational divide between affluent and poor people starts early on, before the age of 3, when children learn cognitive and emotional skills that are difficult to almost impossible to learn later as adults. In Central Harlem, parents were not applying methods that stimulate a child’s early development. So, Geoffrey Canada created Harlem’s Children Zone, an 8-week program where parents learn how to help their children. He also expanded his program to include charter schools. The first group of third graders had reading scores above the state average.

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