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Ball, Jessica – Childhood Education, 2012
In Canada, as around the world, large numbers of Indigenous children encounter culturally dissonant learning environments in preschools and schools. Many of these children experience serious challenges, in part because of a striking mismatch between their early learning experiences in the family and community, and the expectations, perceptions,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Learning Readiness
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1993
Noting that communities and states all across America are working to achieve the first National Education Goal--by the year 2000, all children in America will start school ready to learn--this paper provides information on efforts to meet that goal. The first portion of the paper presents a definition of readiness to learn devised by the Education…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Check Lists, Child Development, Early Childhood Education
Einspruch, Eric; Deck, Dennis; Grover, Jane; Hahn, Karen – 2000
The state of Washington implemented the Readiness to Learn program as part of the state's Family Policy Initiative. The primary goal of the program is to serve as a formal link between education and human services by authorizing grants to local school-linked, community-based consortia to develop and implement strategies that ensure children arrive…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Elementary Secondary Education, Family Programs