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Teachers Speak Out: How School Reforms Are Failing Low-Income Young Children

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Levin, Diane E.; Van Hoorn, Judith L. – Defending the Early Years, 2016

Soon after the implementation of federal and state early education mandates that require the teaching and testing of more formal "academic" skills, many highly experienced early childhood teachers began voicing concerns about the negative impact the mandates were having on the young children in their classrooms. Many of these concerns…

Descriptors: Educational Change, Program Effectiveness, Low Income Students, Early Childhood Education

Contrasting Approaches to Natural Learning Environment Interventions.

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Dunst, Carl J.; Trivette, Carol M.; Humphries, Tracy; Raab, Melinda; Roper, Nicole – Infants and Young Children, 2001

A three-dimensional model is used to compare various approaches to natural environment interventions. The model distinguishes between practices that are contextually or noncontextually based, adult or child directed, and practitioner or nonpractitioner implemented. One approach (practitioner implemented, adult directed) has increasingly been…

Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Disabilities, Early Intervention

Classroom Language Instruction Modeled on the Ways Families Talk.

Foster, Carol; And Others – Dimensions, 1991

Addresses two questions concerning whole language teaching to young children: (1) What is whole language? (2) What experiences are appropriate for whole language teaching? (BB)

Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Day Care, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education