Lessons KIPP in Philadelphia has learned about how to use extra time
The KIPP charter chain is noted for adding instructional time. But in Philadelphia, they’ve made some adjustments and are attuned to the risk of teacher and student burnout.
The KIPP charter chain is noted for adding instructional time. But in Philadelphia, they’ve made some adjustments and are attuned to the risk of teacher and student burnout.
An innovative program works on the premise that in poor communities, parents can provide key reading support outside of the school day.
Ena Shelley, Butler University’s education dean and a national expert in early childhood education, started out 2014 cautiously optimistic about the chances of establishing state-paid tuition aid for low income preschoolers in Indiana for the first time.
The California Department of Education has issued a set of quality standards for expanded learning programs that include giving youth opportunities “to play a meaningful role in program design and implementation.”
The city finally got specific about its plans to expand after-school programs for middle schoolers today.
A recent report from the Oakland-based nonprofit advocacy group Partnership for Children & Youth, “Getting a Head Start on the Common Core,” suggests that a number of districts are relying on summer programs to introduce and reinforce the new standards.
Gov Mike Pence called on lawmakers to reinsert a pilot program to to help low income children begin early learning programs into a bill that now would only study preschool.
One of Gov. Mike Pence’s top legislative priorities, a preschool pilot program, appears to have been stymied for 2014.
Los Angeles Unified’s board members approved a 180-day school year for 2014-15, postponing for at least a year member Mónica García’s proposal to extend the school year to 200 days in the nation’s second-largest school district.
In 2011, Indiana’s then-Gov. Mitch Daniels made education a major focus of his legislative agenda, unveiling four major bills that tackled many education hot buttons — teachers, unions, charter schools, and vouchers. But, as advocates quickly pointed out, Daniels had overlooked another favored policy: early childhood education.