The Year-Round School Debate Year-round school (YRS) episodically surfaces as a subject of school reform. Interestingly enough this is not a new topic of debate; however, the reasons for implementing the reform have changed some. Year-round schools do not require the children to increase the number of days they attend school, the days are just dispersed more evenly throughout the year. As Hermansen (1971) states the concept of YRS has been around since at least 1840 when many major cities had school years ranging from forty-three to fifty weeks. These mostly industrialized cities had an enormous need for children to learn English.
Government funds ensures that every child receives up to 2 years of free education, before reaching school age. This early year provision in school supports very young children and is based on the concept of learning through play rather than formal education, as play has shown to be an important part for children’s early learning. Under the National Curriculum there are 4 Key Stages to education, starting with Foundation.The curriculum for Solihull(EYFS) 2012 includes ‘Understand the world Development’,`Personal,Social and Emotional Development’, ‘Physical Development’, ‘Maths, Literacy, ‘Communication and Language ‘and ‘Expressive Arts and Designs.’ The next Key Stage is Key Stage 1, which includes years 1 and 2(Age 5 and 6 Years), then children would move up to Key Stage 2(Years 3, 4, 5, and 6) for children aged 7 to 11. Children or young people would then move on to secondary education, Key Stage 3 which includes children from the age of 11 to 14 years old. Key Stage 4 includes children from the age of 14 to 16 years old.
NCES reports children enters kindergarten later than their birthdays allows includes 9% of the population (Katz, 2000). Purpose of redshirting, parents hope of giving their children another year to catch up with growth to their peers academically and socially. While the social promotion and retention continues to occur (Frey, 2005). “There is a growing need to analyze redshirt candidates for potential
FACTORS PROMOTING EARLY LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN Factors Promoting Early Literacy Development in Children Britani Gayle Moneague College-Port Maria Campus In partial fulfillment of the requirements for LA100PR Mr. N Nelson October 10, 2012 It is imperative that a child’s literacy development begins at an early age. Literacy development is the growth of an individual’s writing and reading skills. There are many factors erected to implement early literacy development in children. Some of these include phonological awareness, print motivation and Narrative skills. The process of developing early literacy in children would not be possible without phonological awareness.
She informs the reader that there are more than half a million children in foster care, which is double of how many there were in 1980. She writes about how the system needs to make changes, so that the children spend less time in foster care. She also includes improvements people are saying could help like strengthening the communities where the children are coming from and for the system to first look for relatives, instead of placing the children or youth directly with strangers. She concludes by saying there are bright future for foster children. I do agree that the system needs to make changes.
From ages 3 to 16, the most rapid growth in the brain occurs in the frontal lobes. Gross and fine motor skills increase dramatically during early childhood. Too many young children in the United States are being raised on diets that are to high in fat. The child’s life should be centered activities, not meals. Other nutritional concerns include malnutrition in early childhood and the inadequate diets of many children living in poverty.
Finding what is most helpful for meeting the goals set out in the standards may be difficult for a new teacher. Setting high standards and clear goals for students help set them up for their future, make them feel valued and have a goal to reach for. Close-Reading is a careful and purposeful way of reading that help the students to actually comprehend what they are reading and in turn makes reading more desirable. Additionally text-based evidence aides in the understanding and comprehension by providing students with well structured and purposeful text. There are so many times in my life I wish I could go back to my early education years and pay closer attention to what I was being taught.
Blome, "Should American Kids Spend More Time in Class." This article gave me the opening ideas of why American students should remain in class longer than the typical 6 to 8 hours, 180 days a year. This article contained statistics on how our public schools stack up against our foreign counterparts. It also persuaded the reader through facts on why school should be longer. My next step was to read the article "Expand School Hours and You Will Expand Learning."
The federal government helped create this half-day program for preschool children from low-income families. Head Start began as a summer pilot program that included an education component, nutrition and health screenings for children, and support services for families (CPE, 2007). In the 1960s only ten percent of the nations three and four year olds were enrolled in a classroom setting. Due to a large amount of people interested, and a lack of funding for Head Start, during the 1980s a handful of states started their own version of a program for students from low-income families. The positive success and effects of preschool meant many state leaders were showing interest in educational reform of these young students (CPE, 2007).
Some do not keep up with their schoolwork because of emotional problems, use of illegal drugs, or simply lack of motivation. Clearly, if Americans are to become better educated, students must spend more time studying, and parents must insist that they do so. In the 1980s, criticism of American education stimulated a reform movement. As a result, 45 of the 50 states raised high-school graduation requirements. One government study recommended a longer school year.