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Children who aren’t ready for school tend to lag behind their peers in later grades. Parents and teachers can help.
Two years of high-quality preschool is one of the most effective strategies we have to change the trajectories of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Early childhood education services have proliferated in the public and private sectors. But many children who attend these preschool centres do not receive quality services.
Ireland is the latest country to offer two years of preschool education to all children. Is it time Australia followed suit?
The value of music-inspired play in early childhood should never be underestimated.
Black kids get suspended in preschool for minor offenses. A 2016 report shows 45 percent of preschool boys were suspended, once or more.
Government funding of childcare is seen as something that helps get mums back into work, instead of setting children up for learning before they start school.
Don’t dismiss children’s early writing as scribbles. Children know more about writing, even before they learn to read.
The Closing the Gap report shows a mix of successes and failures, but early childhood education holds the key to significant progress.
Children don’t learn much about how illnesses spread if they are just taught a list of dos and don’ts. They need to know why an action is useful.
Parents take note: most kids develop a sense of self-esteem as early as age five.
Research shows that preschool children take characters from popular television shows and movies and blend them together to create complex oral stories.
There’s no national school starting age in Australia, so how do you know when to send them to school?
Most people have heard that Finland leads the world in education, but fewer have heard that Finland’s neighbour, Sweden, is the international leader in early childhood education and care.
All children with early language problems are at increased risk of struggling at school, and having reduced employment opportunities and life chances, but the risk of early language problems is disproportionately…
Rookie New York mayor Bill de Blasio – poster child for America’s insurgent progressives – has promised to rewrite “a tale of two cities” by seeking to narrow gaps between the haves and the have-nots across…
When in 1991 an American newspaper named a preschool in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in the 10 best schools of the world, the early childhood centres in this city gained international attention. So what did this…
All children deserve a good start in life, and we know that high quality early years provision can help to support children’s development. Research shows that it is particularly beneficial for disadvantaged…
The latest Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reform council report released this week showing small improvement in the quality of Australia’s early childhood education comes as federal and state…
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