Posts tagged Early Childhood Education
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Morning bell: An Arabic immersion charter school in Ward 3 and other possibilities
New charter schools?: The DC Public Charter School Board heard proposals for 8 new schools, including an Arabic immersion school for Ward 3 and two boarding high schools. Some proposals fared better than others. (Post, Examiner) Career academies: High-school-based career-training programs are increasing in Maryland and Virginia schools, thanks to federal funding. (Post) Higher… Keep reading…
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Parents of kids under 3 need more access to good daycare. Here’s a way for them to get it.
Parents are urgently in need of child care for children too young to go to preschool. A DC Council bill scheduled for a vote tomorrow morning would help them by increasing the number of “infants” allowed in home-based daycare. Current DC law allows a total of 6 children to be cared for in a home-based environment, but only two can be under age two. Bill 20-607 would permit… Keep reading…
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What’s the best way to use technology in the classroom? One new charter seems to have figured it out
A new charter school in Ward 8 is engaging young children through “blended learning,” which mixes traditional classroom methods and technology. Critics have charged that blended learning is simply a sneaky way of reducing teacher headcounts and thus easing stretched budgets. But at Ingenuity Prep, which opened this year in the Bellevue neighborhood of… Keep reading…
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Catania says empowering parents is key to improving schools
DC Councilmember David Catania answered questions Monday night from Greater Greater Education contributors and readers. In the course of a wide-ranging discussion, he called for empowering parents, improving middle school options, and generally addressing DC’s education issues with a fierce sense of urgency. Drawing on an impressive fund of knowledge acquired… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Education woes
GWU considers money in admissions; Parents try to stay; Parents consider leaving; New laws for bikes; DC United stadium deal critics gather; 495 Express lanes see lower volumes; New tool to help CaBi; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: New athletic league for charters
Charter students can compete: The creation of a new sports league for charter schools will allow more students to participate in sports. (Post) Keep reading…
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Daycare is education, part 2: Early childhood care matters
We know daycare in the US is high-cost and low-quality. We know France and Sweden provide better services at no cost to families. But do we understand how vital daycare is to childhood development and the economic and personal growth of their parents? Last month, I wrote about the difficulty of finding good, affordable childcare in the United States. While President Obama and… Keep reading…
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Daycare is education. Why isn’t it better?
The cover story of the New Republic this week describes the “hell of American day care.” While it goes into detail on a few extreme cases, the article also asks a very important question. Given what we know about early childhood cognitive development, why do we treat the environment infants and toddlers find themselves in with such disregard? The article intersperses… Keep reading…
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School lottery demand shows sharp east-west divide
Parents who have applied to preschool, pre-kindergarten, or out-of-boundary lotteries for DC public schools are anxiously looking at the results today. These lotteries are far from equally competitive; the most desired schools are all in 4 wards of the city, while the least in-demand are all in 3 other wards in the eastern part of the city. Keep reading…